Year-End Lists

Shelf Awareness: Best Books of 2019

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

Fiction

• Black Leopard, Red Wolf
  Marlon James
• The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
  Abbi Waxman
• Daisy Jones & The Six
  Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Feast Your Eyes
  Myla Goldberg
• Fleishman Is in Trouble
  Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• Gideon the Ninth
  Tamsyn Muir
• Girl, Woman, Other
  Bernardine Evaristo
• Mostly Dead Things
  Kristen Arnett
• Red, White & Royal Blue
  Casey McQuiston
• Trust Exercise
  Susan Choi

Nonfiction

• The Book of Delights

  Essays
  Ross Gay
• The Collected Schizophrenias
  Esmé Weijun Wang
• Dreyer's English

  An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
  Benjamin Dreyer
• A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America
  Lyz Lenz
• How to Be an Antiracist
  Ibram X. Kendi
• How to Do Nothing

  Resisting the Attention Economy
  Jenny Odell
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

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

  Reflections on Self-Delusion
  Jia Tolentino
• The Yellow House
  Sarah M. Broom