The above linked article talks about the New York Public Library’s list of best books of 2019. I have some of the books, and I have read some of the books. It’s a long list, but most seem worth reading.
Best Books For Adults: Top 10
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Aker
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacobs
Normal People by Sally Rooney
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Three Women by Lisa Tadeo
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
Biographies & Memoirs
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
In Waves by A.J. Dungo
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Fantasy
The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Lovely War by Julie Berry
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Fiction
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Fly Already by Etgar Keret
Girl by Edna O’Brien
A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, trans. by Ann Goldstein
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Lanny by Max Porter
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, trans. by Stephen Snyder
Normal People by Sally Rooney
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
The Volunteer by Salvatore Scibona
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Graphic Novels
Bad Gateway by Simon Hanselmann
BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels, art by Ben Passmore
Cannonball by Kelsey Wroten
Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers
Mister Miracle by Tom King, art by Mitch Gerads
Off Season by James Sturm
Penny Nichols by M.K. Reed and Greg Means, art by Matt Wiegle
Rusty Brown by Chris Ware
Historical fiction
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
Inland by Téa Obreht
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames
A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Horror
A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill
Bunnyby Mona Awad
The Institute by Stephen King
The Need by Helen Phillips
Mystery & Suspense
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
The Current by Tim Johnson
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Lady In the Lake by Laura Lippman
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
Romance
Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
A Prince On Paper by Alyssa Cole
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai
Science Fiction
Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu, ed.
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
Story Collections
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Orange World by Karen Russell
Raised in Captivity by Chuck Klosterman
Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott
Nonfiction
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily Bazelon
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl
Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Megan Twohey & Jodi Kantor
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion by Jia Tolentino
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
Poetry
Black Condition Ft. Narcissus by Jayy Dodd
The Crazy Bunch by Willie Perdomo
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
In Her Feminine Sign by DunyāMīkhāʼīl
Library of Small Catastrophes by Alison C. Rollins
Lima :: Limón by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Soft Science by Franny Choi
Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone by Thiahera Nurse
Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50 by Lee Ann Roripaugh
The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi
