Year-End Lists

Book Riot: Best Books of 2019 So Far

• American Fairytale
  Adriana Herrera
• American Spy
  Lauren Wilkinson
• Brute
  Emily Skaja
• Daisy Jones & The Six
  Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Disappearing Earth
  Julia Phillips
• Flowers of Mold
  Ha Seong-nan
• Good Talk

  A Memoir in Conversations
  Mira Jacob
• Here and Now and Then
  Mike Chen
• Internment
  Samira Ahmed
• Jokes for the Gunmen
  Mazen Maarouf
• Kid Gloves

  Nine Months of Careful Chaos
  Lucy Knisley
• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
  T Kira Madden
• Love from A to Z
  S.K. Ali
• Magic for Liars
  Sarah Gailey
• Maiden & Princess
  Daniel Haack & Isabel Galupo
• Miracle Creek
  Angie Kim
• Naamah
  Sarah Blake
• No Happy Endings
  Nora McInerny
• No Visible Bruises

  What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
  Rachel Louise Snyder
• Normal People
  Sally Rooney
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
  Ocean Vuong
• Once & Future
  Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy
• Once More We Saw Stars
  Jayson Greene
• Recursion
  Blake Crouch
• Red, White & Royal Blue
  Casey McQuiston
• Reverb
  Anna Zabo
• Save Me the Plums

  My Gourmet Memoir
  Ruth Reichl
• Silver in the Wood
  Emily Tesh
• Somewhere Only We Know
  Maurene Goo
• Stony the Road

  Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
  Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon
  Mary Fan
• The Afterward
  E.K. Johnston
• The Bride Test
  Helen Hoang
• The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
  Anissa Gray
• The Collected Schizophrenias
  Esmé Weijun Wang
• The Everlasting Rose
  Dhonielle Clayton
• The Five

  The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
  Hallie Rubenhold
• The Last
  Hanna Jameson
• The Outside
  Ada Hoffmann
• The Things She's Seen
  Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina
• The Weight of Our Sky
  Hanna Alkaf
• To Night Owl From Dogfish
  Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer
• We Hunt the Flame
  Hafsah Faizal