Year-End Lists

She Reads: The Best Books of 2019

Literary Fiction

• The Most Fun We Ever Had
  Claire Lombardo
• Queenie
  Candice Carty-Williams
• The Testaments
  Margaret Atwood
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
  Ocean Vuong
• Red at the Bone
  Jacqueline Woodson

Thrillers

• The Whisper Man
  Alex North
• The Chain
  Adrian McKinty
• The Lost Man
  Jane Harper
• The Silent Patient
  Alex Michaelides
• My Sister, the Serial Killer
  Oyinkan Braithwaite

Historical Fiction

• Daisy Jones & The Six
  Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Huntress
  Kate Quinn
• Mrs. Everything
  Jennifer Weiner
• The Water Dancer
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Night Tiger
  Yangsze Choo
• The Nickel Boys
  Colson Whitehead

Fantasy

• Gods of Jade and Shadow
  Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January
  Alix E. Harrow
• The Red Scrolls of Magic
  Cassandra Clare
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf
  Marlon James

Romance

• The Bride Test
  Helen Hoang
• Love At First Like
  Hannah Orenstein
• The Wedding Party
  Jasmine Guillory
• The Girl He Used to Know
  Tracey Garvis Graves

Science Fiction

• Recursion
  Blake Crouch
• This Is How You Lose the Time War
  Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Horror

• The Institute
  Stephen King
• Full Throttle
  Joe Hill
• Imaginary Friend
  Stephen Chbosky

Nonfiction

• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

  A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
  Lori Gottlieb
• Three Women
  Lisa Taddeo
• Inheritance

  A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
  Dani Shapiro
• Maid

  Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
  Stephanie Land
• More Than Enough

  Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
  Elaine Welteroth
• Know My Name
  Chanel Miller