Top 5 Surprising Reads of 2019

It’s been a while, but I’m excited to be back with a post for the Bionic Bookworm’s Top 5 Tuesday!

Books surprise us all the time. Usually, it’s something that we think we’re going to like and end up LOVING! I guess there’s the other kind of surprise, where we think a book is right up our alley and end up hating it. I didn’t both putting any of those books on this list. Good surprises only.

FURIOUSLY HAPPY
by Jenny Lawson

One of those books that I didn’t hear a single bad thing about, but it just didn’t seem like it was for me. I was wrong. Full of insight and hilarity all the way through.

11/22/63
by Stephen King

I don’t know why King’s books still surprise me. I always know I’m going to like them, but when I read the synopsis, I never think I’m going to LOVE them. I’m wrong pretty much every time.

THERE WILL COME A DARKNESS
by Katy Rose Pool

I believe this was a debut, and there was some fire behind it, so I was relatively confident this was going to be pretty great and it still managed to exceed expectations!

THE WAREHOUSE
by Rob Hart

This might have been the biggest surprise of the year. It sounded like a cool premise, but I hadn’t heard of the author and the cover made me think it was self-published (not that there aren’t great self-published books.) However, this delighted me in several ways.

A MAN CALLED OVE
by Fredrik Backman

Okay, maybe THIS was the biggest surprise of the year. It’s one of those books that just doesn’t sound like there’s much going on. And there wasn’t in an action, monsters, and spaceships sense. But there’s plenty of meaning and feels in this delightful page-turner.

Fun fact about this post: It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything, but November was crazy and I promise I’ll tell you about it soon.