The Books I Read in 2019 and My Top 10 of the Year, Last Half of the Decade, and the Decade

These are my top 10 favorite books I read in 2019:
1. Henry V--William Shakespeare
2. East of Eden--John Steinbeck
3. The Age of Movies--Pauline Kael
4. The Dreamers--Karen Thompson Walker
5. A Streetcar Named Desire--Tennessee Williams
6. The Communist--Paul Kengor
7. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine--Gail Honeyman
8. The Woman in the Dunes--Kobo Abe
9. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith--Thomas Keneally
10. Iron Curtain--Anne Applebaum

My top 10 favorite books I read in the second half of the 2010s:
1. Henry V--William Shakespeare
2. East of Eden--John Steinbeck
3. The Age of Miracles--Karen Thompson Walker
4. Altman--Kathryn Reed Altman and Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan
5. Selected Stories--Guy de Maupassant
6. Howards End--E.M. Forster
7. The Age of Movies--Pauline Kael
8. Room to Dream--David Lynch and Kristine McKenna
9. The Humbling--Philip Roth
10. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt--Edmund Morris

My top 10 favorite books I read in the 2010s:
1. In Cold Blood--Truman Capote
2. Ragtime--E.L. Doctorow
3. Henry V--William Shakespeare
4. The Circle--Dave Eggers
5. The Help--Kathryn Stockett
6. The Right Stuff--Tom Wolfe
7. Being There--Jerzy Kosinski
8. East of Eden--John Steinbeck
9. The Age of Miracles--Karen Thompson Walker
10. Altman--Kathryn Reed Altman and Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan

These are the 26 books I read in 2019:
1. The Return of the King--J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Collected Stories--Deborah Eisenberg
3. The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History--Thomas E. Woods Jr.
4. Circe--Madeline Miller
5. The Dreamers--Karen Thompson Walker
6. The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature--Elizabeth Kantor
7. Exposing Satan's Playbook--Perry Stone
8. The False Angel--Jeannie Sather
9. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine--Gail Honeyman
10. The Communist--Paul Kengor
11. The Age of Movies--Pauline Kael
12. Iron Curtain--Anne Applebaum
13. QAnon--WWG1WGA
14. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith--Thomas Keneally
15. 1Q84--Haruki Murakami
16. Ollie's Odyssey--William Joyce
17. The Woman in the Dunes--Kobo Abe
18. The Red Thread--Diana West
19. A Streetcar Named Desire--Tennessee Williams
20. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof--Tennessee Williams
21. Unplanned--Abby Johnson
22. Henry V--William Shakespeare
23. East of Eden--John Steinbeck
24. The Dice Man--Luke Rhinehart
25. The Oracle--Jonathan Cahn
26. An American Tragedy--Theodore Dreiser