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2019 Books
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2019
25 November 2019
The New York Times
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100 Notable Books of 2019
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
American Spy
Lauren Wilkinson
Antisocial
Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
Andrew Marantz
Audience of One
Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
James Poniewozik
Bangkok Wakes to Rain
Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Becoming
Michelle Obama
The Beneficiary
Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
Janny Scott
The Body in Question
Jill Ciment
Bottle of Lies
The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
Katherine Eban
The British Are Coming
The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rick Atkinson
Cherokee, America
Margaret Verble
The Club
Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Leo Damrosch
The Conservative Sensibility
George F. Will
The Crowded Hour
Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
Clay Risen
Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky
Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips
Ducks, Newburyport
Lucy Ellmann
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett
The Education of an Idealist
Samantha Power
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Neal Stephenson
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Full Throttle
Joe Hill
Furious Hours
Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Casey Cep
Girl
Edna O’Brien
The Godmother
Hannelore Cayre
The Gone Dead
Chanelle Benz
Good Talk
A Memoir in Conversations
Mira Jacob
Grace Will Lead Us Home
The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness
Jennifer Berry Hawes
The Grammarians
Cathleen Schine
Grand Union
Zadie Smith
Growing Things
Paul Tremblay
The Guarded Gate
Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
Daniel Okrent
Guest House for Young Widows
Among the Women of ISIS
Azadeh Moaveni
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Native America from 1890 to the Present
David Treuer
The Heavens
Sandra Newman
Horizon
Barry Lopez
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
How We Fight for Our Lives
Saeed Jones
If
The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years
Christopher Benfey
The Impeachers
The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
Brenda Wineapple
In Byron's Wake
The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
Miranda Seymour
In Hoffa's Shadow
A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
Jack Goldsmith
The Institute
Stephen King
Know My Name
Chanel Miller
Kochland
The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
Christopher Leonard
Last Day
Domenica Ruta
The Last Whalers
Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life
Doug Bock Clark
The Lost Art of Scripture
Rescuing the Sacred Texts
Karen Armstrong
Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli
Lot
Bryan Washington
Maid
Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land
Mama's Last Hug
Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Frans de Waal
Maggie Brown & Others
Peter Orner
The Man Who Saw Everything
Deborah Levy
Margaret Thatcher
The Authorized Biography: Herself Alone
Charles Moore
The Mastermind
Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal
Evan Ratliff
The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa
Midnight in Chernobyl
The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
Mostly Dead Things
Kristen Arnett
Mrs. Everything
Jennifer Weiner
The Need
Helen Phillips
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
Night Boat to Tangier
Kevin Barry
No Visible Bruises
What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Rachel Louise Snyder
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
Andrew Miller
The Octopus Museum
Brenda Shaughnessy
The Old Drift
Namwali Serpell
Optic Nerve
Maria Gainza
Our Man
Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer
The Parisian
Isabella Hammad
The Problem with Everything
My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
Meghan Daum
Rabbits for Food
Binnie Kirshenbaum
Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
The Revisioners
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Rusty Brown
Chris Ware
Say Nothing
A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe
Separate
The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
Steve Luxenberg
The Shadow King
Maaza Mengiste
She Said
Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
She Was Like That
New and Selected Stories
Kate Walbert
Solitary
Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope
Albert Woodfox
Spring
Ali Smith
Stony the Road
Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
Thick
And Other Essays
Tressie McMillan Cottom
The Topeka School
Ben Lerner
The Tradition
Jericho Brown
Trick Mirror
Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino
Underland
A Deep Time Journey
Robert Macfarlane
The Uninhabitable Earth
Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells
The Unwinding of the Miracle
A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Julie Yip-Williams
The War Before the War
Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
Andrew Delbanco
Westside
W.M. Akers
What You Have Heard Is True
A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
Carolyn Forché
Women Talking
Miriam Toews
Women's Work
A Reckoning with Work and Home
Megan K. Stack
The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom