Here’s 19 Books You Need to Read in 2019

One of my goals for 2019 is to spend less time plugged into my phone and more time actually living in the moment. Instead of mindlessly scrolling through Instagram when I’m bored or binge-watching Netflix, I’m going to read more. A few weeks ago I challenged myself to complete my 2017 reading challenge. But this time I’m pushing myself a bit more and adding two more books into the mix! Some of the books on the list are brand new to me, others are classics that I love to reread over and over again. Either way, here’s to less hours looking at a screen and more hours looking at script. Check out the 19 books I plan to read in 2019 below. 

1. Designed to Pray by Kelly O’Dell Stanley

2. Becoming by Michelle Obama

3. Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4. The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou

5. Good Luck With That by Kristan Higgins

6. Good Riddance by Elinor Lipman

7. Unshakeable by Christine Caine

8. Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo

9. Fervent by Priscilla Shirer

10. Influencer by Brittany Hennessy

11. The Hollywood Commandments by Devon Franklin

12. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

13. Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston

14. She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore

15. American Like Me by America Ferrera

16. Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly

17. Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing

18. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

19. If I Can Cook/ You Know God Can by Ntozake Shange