Some Favorite Books from 2019

Without description and with only a hint of organizing, here’s a list of (some of the) books I read and loved in 2020.

Picture Books

• Pluto Gets the Call, written by Adam Rex & illustrated by Laurie Keller
• Maximillian Villainous, written by Margaret Chiu Greanias & illustrated by Lesley Breen Withrow
• Mary Wears What She Wants, written & illustrated by Keith Negley
• Ogilvy, written by Deborah Underwood & illustrated by T.L. McBeth
• Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet, written by Curtis Manley & illustrated by Jessica Lanan
• The Rabbit Listened, written & illustrated by Cori Doerrfeld
• The Remember Balloons, written by Jessie Oliveros & illustrated by Dana Wulfekotte
• Escargot, written by Dashka Slater & illustrated by Sydney Hanson
• Evelyn the Adventurous Entomologist: The True Story of a World-Traveling Bug Hunter, written by Christine Evans & illustrated by Yasmin Imamura
• Reading Beauty, written by Deborah Underwood & illustrated by Meg Hunt
• No Fits, Nilson, written & illustrated by Zachariah Ohora
• The Snurtch, written by Sean Ferrell & illustrated by Charles Santoso
• The Little Guys, written & illustrated by Vera Brosgol
• Rabbit & Possum, written & illustrated by Dana Wulfekotte
• Cheerful Chick, written by Martha Brockenbrough & illustrated by Brian Won

Novels (any age)

• Lemons by Melissa Savage
• Secrets of a Fangirl by Erin Dionne
• Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zenter
• Forward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins
• Paper Son by SJ Rozan
• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
• The Midnight Thief & Rosetouched series by Livia Blackburne
• All 5 books published (so far, I hope!) by Caroline Carlson
• The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore
• The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante
• The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
• Front Desk by Kelly Yang
• Ra the Mighty: Cat Detective, written by AB Greenfield & illustrated by Sarah Horne
• The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
• Bob, written by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead & illustrated by Nicholas Gannon

Nonfiction

• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of the Lost World by Steve Brusatte
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister