01
What Is It All But Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man
January 2019
Sean O'Leary's Reading Archive // 2019
A Year in Constellations.
Forty-seven books trace the shape of Sean O'Leary's 2019 reading year. The path begins with memoir and American classics, passes through Chaucer and Steinbeck, then opens outward into Asimov, Gaiman, Butcher, Herbert, Sanderson and the far edges of imagined worlds.
2019
A year mapped by books
47
Books recorded
12
Months of reading
7
Foundation novels
The 2019 Shelf
Follow the year as it unfolded.
The books remain in Sean's recorded reading order. Where the original archive preserved an exact completion date, it appears below the title.
January // 2019
2 Books
January
02
The Great Gatsby
January 2019
February // 2019
3 Books
February
03
The Canterbury Tales
February 2019
04
Cannery Row
February 2019
05
Prelude to Foundation
February 2019
March // 2019
4 Books
March
06
East of Eden
March 2019
07
Of Mice and Men
March 2019
08
Folsom Untold: The Strange True Story of Johnny Cash's Greatest Album
March 2019
09
A Mind of Her Own
March 2019
April // 2019
4 Books
April
10
Junk
April 2019
11
Anansi Boys
April 2019
12
Forward the Foundation
April 2019
13
New York 2140
April 2019
May // 2019
8 Books
May
14
The Epic of Gilgamesh
May 2019
15
The Graveyard Book
May 2019
16
Animal Farm
May 2019
17
Slaughterhouse-Five
May 8, 2019
18
Foundation
May 14, 2019
19
Crashing Heat
May 17, 2019
20
American Gods
May 27, 2019
21
Mort
May 28, 2019
June // 2019
4 Books
June
22
Fragile Things
June 7, 2019
23
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
June 13, 2019
24
Academ's Fury
June 24, 2019
25
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
June 30, 2019
July // 2019
3 Books
July
26
Cursor's Fury
July 10, 2019
27
Captain's Fury
July 19, 2019
28
Princeps' Fury
July 28, 2019
August // 2019
5 Books
August
29
The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm
August 5, 2019
30
First Lord's Fury
August 13, 2019
31
2001: A Space Odyssey
August 18, 2019
32
Foundation and Empire
August 24, 2019
33
Second Foundation
August 30, 2019
September // 2019
3 Books
September
34
Sh*t My Dad Says
September 2, 2019
35
Foundation's Edge
September 15, 2019
36
Foundation and Earth
September 25, 2019
October // 2019
4 Books
October
37
MirrorMask
October 1, 2019
38
The Lost Symbol
October 7, 2019
39
House Atreides
October 17, 2019
40
House Harkonnen
October 30, 2019
November // 2019
2 Books
November
41
The Godwulf Manuscript
November 7, 2019
42
House Corrino
November 24, 2019
December // 2019
5 Books
December
43
Skyward
December 4, 2019
44
Coraline
December 6, 2019
45
Starsight
December 18, 2019
46
Fortunately, the Milk
December 20, 2019
47
Nickel Mountain
December 29, 2019
The Reading Life Continues
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Sean's written book reviews and reading activity live on Goodreads. His Goodreads author page gathers his own books, while current video reviews from the 2025 and 2026 reading years can be found on YouTube.
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