Fiction read in 2019

Looks like most of my reading this year was fiction (I'll do a separate post with the non-fiction titles).   I've put my five favorites in bold type. 

Quite a few mysteries/detective stories:

The Sacco Gang, by Andrea Camilleri
Death at the Dog, by Joanna Cannnan
Who Killed Zebedee? and John Jago's Ghost, by Wilkie Collins (in the same volume)
Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone and Nameless Serenade (a Commissario Ricciardi mystery), by Maurizio de Giovanni
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Charles Dickens
The Lost Stradivarius, by J. Meade Falkner
Death and the Pleasant Voices, by Mary Fitt
The Glass Key, by Dashiell Hammett
An English Murder, by Cyril Hare
Cave of Bones, by Anne Hillerman
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales, by P.D. James
The Grand Complication, by Allen Kurzweil
The Temptation of Forgiveness, by Donna Leon
Take Out, by Margaret Maron
The Color of Fear, and The Breakers, by Marcia Muller
The Great Impersonation, by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Shell Game, by Sara Paretsky
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, by Dorothy L. Sayers (a re-read on Armistice Day)
To Each His Own, by Leonardo Sciascia
The Labyrinth of the Spirits, by Carlos Ruiz Záfon

It's an interesting variety, actually.   A touch of noir, some classic English works, contemporary American (mostly by women), and some recent European authors.  A few, such as the Záfon and the Falkner, have a touch of the supernatural about them.

Speaking of the supernatural:

A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life, by Deborah Harkness (her All Souls Trilogy)
The Rules of Magic, by Alice Hoffman

I read several short story collections:

The Teeth of the Comb and other stories, by Osama Alomar
The Coast of Chicago, by Stuart Dybek
Night Hawks, by Charles Johnson
The Logic of a Rose, by Billy Lombardo
The Decapitated Chicken and other stories, by Horacio Quiroga
Chance Developments: Unexpected Love Stories, by Alexander McCall Smith

A couple of children/young adult books:

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (another re-read)
Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi
The Sixty-Eight Rooms, by Marianne Malone (a bit of magic here)

In Italian:

La Più Amata, by Teresa Ciabatta
Le Otto Montagne, by Paolo Cognetti
L'arte della gioia, by Goliarda Sapienza (read it in English, too:  The Art of Joy)

and lots more:

The Everlasting Story of Nory, by Nicholson Baker
Wish Her Safe at Home, by Stephen Benatar
Summer Crossing, by Truman Capote
The Outcry, by Henry James
The World Goes On, by Lázló Krasznahorkai
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (yet another re-read!)
A Guide for the Perplexed, by Jonathan Levi
Fludd, by Hilary Mantel
Summer's Lease, and The Narrowing Stream, by John Mortimer
Malacqua: Four Days of Rain in the City of Naples, Waiting for the Occurrence of an Extraordinary Event, by Nicola Pugliese
Garments the Living Wear, by James Purdy
The Stone Tide: Adventures at the End of the World, by Gareth E. Rees
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, by Kathleen Rooney
Memento Park, by Mark Sarvas
Dear Committee Members, by Julie Schumacher
Hope Never Dies!, by Andrew Shaffer
A Time of Love and Tartan, by Alexander McCall Smith
The American Lover, by Rose Tremain
Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope
The Neighborhood, by Mario Vargas Llosa
Jeeves in the Morning, and Thank You, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse

Some of these were by familiar authors, others by authors new to me.