Best Books of 2019
I put this Goodreads list at the very top of this entry because it’s “the only major book awards decided by readers.” Check out the winners in a whole bunch of categories.
The Ultimate Best Books of 2019 List
And here’s the list made up from other lists. Literary Hub editor Emily Temple collected every “best books of the year” lists she could find, “tallied up their recommendations, and figured out which books were most often included.”
What writers are reading: The Irish Times books of the year 2019
The 10 Best Books of 2019
From The New York Times: “The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.”
Best Books 2019
This is the portal for entering Library Journal’s lists of best books in the following categories:
- crime fiction
- horror
- literary fiction
- pop fiction
- romance
- science fiction/fantasy
- short stories
- world literature
- arts
- biography & memoir
- cooking & food
- poetry
- religion & spirituality
- science & technology
- social sciences
- wellness
- graphic novels
AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019
The year’s best audiobooks in all the major categories.
The best books of 2019 – picked by the year’s best writers
From The Guardian comes this list: “the winners and runners-up of this year’s most coveted literary awards pick their three favourite titles of 2019.”
The Best Books of 2019
From Katy Waldman, staff writer at The New Yorker
The Best Books of 2019
Book Riot’s choices from all the genres
The Best Books We Read in 2019
The staff of Bookish list the best books they read in 2019.
NPR’s Book Concierge
The portal for entry into NPR’s book recommendations from 2019 all the way back through 2013.
The Best Books of 2019
From GQ
The 10 Best Books of 2019
“According to Slate’s books editor.” At the bottom of this list is a link to “the best books of 2019 according to Slate’s book critic.”
The Best Books of 2019
From Molly Young, Vulture literary critic
Our 50 Favorite Books of the Year
“Highlights From a Year in Reading by the Literary Hub Staff”
Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019
From The New Yorker
55 of the Best Queer Books of 2019
A list of “gorgeous graphic memoirs, epic fantasy tales, twisty thrillers, swoony romances, exceptional essay collections, and more!”
The 44 Best-Selling Books of 2019 That You Don’t Want to Miss
An exhortation from Good Housekeeping: “Crack open one of these best-sellers to find out what everyone’s talking about.”
Best Books of 2019: Young Adult
A list from BookPage
The Best Books of 2019 (So Far)
From Thrillist. There are 39 books on this list, a lot of which are translations from writers outside of the U.S.
The Best Science Books of 2019
Recommendations from Barbara Kiser, Books & Arts Editor at Nature. This page also includes, along the right side, links to many other “best books” in science-related areas.
Books of the Year 2019
Australian Book Review has compiled this list from suggestions by their critics and writers.
The Best of 2019
Amazon’s audiobook giant Audible offers a top-ten list, plus additional lists in a whole bunch of categories such as fiction, memoir, mysteries & thrillers, true crime, young adult, and kids’ audiobooks.
THE BEST BOOK COVERS OF 2019
From Book Riot
The Best Cookbooks of 2019
From The New Yorker
THE BEST CRIME NOVELS OF 2019
From the folks at CrimeReads, who explain they are “starting here with our choices for best novels from the big “crime” umbrella of crime, mystery, and thrillers. We’ll be back soon with our selections for the best new International Crime Fiction, True Crime, Noir, Psychological Thrillers, Espionage Fiction, and more.”
THE BEST EPIGRAPHS OF 2019
Those short quotations you often find at the front of books are called epigraphs. Here Ashley Holstrom lists her favorites for the year. “Sometimes the epigraphs are related to content or tone, or just something pretty the writer wants to share along with their work.”
Reflecting on the memoirs of 2019 and the elasticity of the genre
From the Chicago Tribune. Not exactly a “best of” list, but interesting nevertheless.
The New York Public Library’s Most Checked-Out Books of the Year
Electric Lit’s 15 Best Novels of 2019
Compiled by the staff and contributors of Electric Literature
Electric Lit’s 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019
“Staff and contributors recommend memoirs, essays, and reported work”
Best books of 2019: What Ronan Farrow, Susan Orlean and more writers we love couldn’t put down
From the Los Angeles Times
The best books of 2019 for people who love travel
Editors’ Picks: Notable Books of 2019
A list of both fiction and nonfiction, from Cal Flyn, deputy editor at Five Books
The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2019
From Literary Hub
Rabih Alameddine: The Oddest Books I Read This Year
“The Author of The Angel of History Alternative to theEndless ‘Best of’ Lists”
Best Books of the Decade
26 Books From the Last Decade that More People Should Read
From Literary Hub: “Our Favorite Writers Recommend Some Underappreciated Gems.”
10 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Must-Reads From the 2010s
From fiction writer and editor Leah Schnelbach, for Literary Hub
The Best Psychological Thrillers of the Decade, Ranked
Analysis by BookBub of 17 thrillers
20 of the Best Book Club Books of the Decade
“In this list, we’re showcasing two of the best books from each year — all titles that book clubs loved.” From BookBub
Here are EW’s top 10 nonfiction books of the decade
From Entertainment Weekly. At the bottom you’ll find links to the top 10 fiction books of the decade, the best fantasy of the decade, and the best book series of the decade.
The 10 Best Literary TV Adaptations of the Decade
From Emily Temple of Literary Hub: “we didn’t base our decisions on fidelity to, or creativity of departure from, the original text. We just wanted to pick the best television experiences.”
The 10 Best Literary Film Adaptations of the Decade
Also from Literary Hub
How reading has changed in the 2010s
From the BBC: “Erica Wagner picks the most important book trends of the past decade.”
The 10 Best Debut Novels of the Decade
A list by For Reading Addicts
The Decade in Young Adult Fiction
From Laura Miller at Slate
100 Books That Defined the Decade
From Emily Temple for Literary Hub: “This is a list of books that, whether bad or good, were in one way or another defining for the last decade in American culture.”
The Best Memoirs of the Decade (2010-2019)
A list by For Reading Addicts
The Best Memoirs of the Decade
BookBub’s list
Best of the Decade: What Books Will We Still Be Reading in 10 Years?
“And You Thought Best of the Year Lists Were Intense?”
Emily Temple of Literary Hub: “I proposed a staff poll, of sorts: I asked each of my colleagues in the Literary Hub office to make a list of the ten books from the last ten years that they thought we’d still be reading—for good or ill—ten years from now, circa 2030.”
© 2019 by Mary Daniels Brown
