Happy New Year! The topic for today’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is the best books read in 2019. I’ve broken mine down by a few categories, in no particular order.
Fiction:
- Ghost Wall by Sarah Mosse
- Asking for It by Louise O’Neill
- Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Nonfiction:
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
- Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
- Dear America by Jose Antonio Vargas
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- Dopesick by Beth Macy
2019 Releases:
- Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
- Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
- Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Books set in other countries:
- The Things She’s Seen by Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina (Australia)
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexico)
- How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyamana (Congo)
- Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (Nigeria)
- Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Colombia)
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (Germany/Baltic Sea/Prussia)
Series/Just for Fun:
- Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
- The Death of Mrs. Westaway and The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
- In the Woods and The Likeness by Tana French
- Daughter of the Pirate King and Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller
Those were some of my favorite reads this year. Which ones did you like? Anything on this list you felt was overrated?
