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From The New York Times to Esquire, we've scoured the internet and compiled all of the Best Books of the Year posts into one list. Check below to see if there's a must-read you missed. There's still time before the year is out!
Three Women
By Lisa Taddeo
Featured on 13 lists including:
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
Time's The 100 Must-Read Books of 2019
The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2019
Desire as we’ve never seen it before: a riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting.
Look Both Ways
A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Illustrated by Alexander Nabaum
Featured on 12 lists including:
The New York Times' The 25 Best Children's Books of 2019
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
Time's The 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2019
From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all the different directions a walk home can take.
The Need
Featured on 11 lists including:
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
Time's The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019
The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2019
In The Need, Helen Phillips has created a subversive, speculative thriller that comes to life through blazing, arresting prose and gorgeous, haunting imagery.
How We Fight for Our Lives
A Memoir
By Saeed Jones
Featured on 8 lists including:
The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2019
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2019
An award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style that’s as beautiful as it is powerful—a voice that’s by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. How We Fight for Our Lives is a one-of-a-kind memoir and a book that cements Saeed Jones as an essential writer for our time.
Another
Illustrated by Christian Robinson
Featured on 7 lists including:
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
The New York Times' The 25 Best Children's Books of 2019
New York Public Library's 2019 Best Books for Kids
In his eagerly anticipated debut as author-illustrator, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King honoree Christian Robinson brings young readers on a playful, imaginative journey into another world.
Midnight in Chernobyl
The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Featured on 6 lists including:
The New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2019
Times's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters.
Mrs. Everything
A Novel
Featured on 6 lists including:
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2019
The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2019
From Jennifer Weiner, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Who Do You Love and In Her Shoes comes a smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters’ lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places—and be true to themselves—in a rapidly evolving world.
Truman
By Jean Reidy
Illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins
Featured on 6 lists including:
The New York Times' The 25 Best Children's Books of 2019
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
New York Public Library's 2019 Best Books for Kids
After his best friend Sarah leaves for her first day of school, a tortoise named Truman goes on an adventure across the living room and learns to be brave in this thoughtful and heartwarming twist on a first experience story.
Ask Again, Yes
A Novel
Featured on 6 lists including:
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
Elle's The 28 Best Books of 2019
Vogue's The Best Novels of 2019
A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marriage, and the power of forgiveness.
Pokko and the Drum
Illustrated by Matthew Forsythe
Featured on 5 lists including:
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
New York Public Library's Best Books for Kids: Top 10
TODAY Show's 26 of the Best Kids' Books of 2019
From E.B. White Read Aloud honor artist Matthew Forsythe comes a picture book about a magical drum, an emerald forest, and the little frog who dares to make her own music.
Sing to It
New Stories
By Amy Hempel
Featured on 5 lists including:
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
Time's The 100 Must-Read Books of 2019
Esquire's The Best Books of 2019 (So Far)
From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: a ravishing, sometimes heartbreaking new story collection—her first in over a decade.
The Institute
A Novel
By Stephen King
Featured on 5 lists including:
The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2019
The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2019
New York Public Library's 2019 Best Books for Adults
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It.
Genesis Begins Again
Featured on 4 lists including:
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
New York Public Library's 2019 Best Books for Kids
This deeply sensitive and powerful debut novel tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself.
I Miss You When I Blink
Essays
Featured on 3 lists including:
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
Esquire's The Best Books of 2019 (So Far)
Acclaimed essayist and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott presents a charmingly relatable and wise memoir-in-essays about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on her successful life’s to-do list and realized she might need to reinvent the list—and herself.
Queenie
Featured on 3 lists including:
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
Time's The 100 Must-Read Books of 2019
Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place.
Survival Math
Notes on an All-American Family
Featured on 3 lists including:
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
Time's The 100 Must-Read Books of 2019
Esquire's The Best Books of 2019 (So Far)
An electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the national conversation about race and class, Survival Math takes its name from the calculations award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson made to survive the Portland, Oregon of his youth.
Hollywood's Eve
Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
By Lili Anolik
Featured on 2 lists including:
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
Esquire's The Best Books of 2019 (So Far)
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world—a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA, and Vanity Fair writer “Lili Anolik decodes, ruptures, and ultimately intensifies Eve’s singular irresistible glitz” (The New Yorker).
Kochland
The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
Featured on 2 lists including:
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2019
Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America.
The Doll Factory
A Novel
Featured on 2 lists including:
New York Public Library's 2019 Best Books for Adults
The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2019
In this “sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art, and obsession” (Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train), a beautiful young woman aspires to be an artist, while a man’s dark obsession may destroy her world forever.
The Mueller Report
Featured on 2 lists including:
Time's The 100 Must-Read Books of 2019
The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2019
The only book with exclusive analysis by the Pulitzer Prize–winning staff of The Washington Post, and the most complete and authoritative available. The special counsel’s investigation looms as a turning point in American history. The Mueller Report is essential reading for all citizens concerned about the fate of the presidency and the future of our democracy.
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