Year-End Lists

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2019, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• How We Fight for Our Lives
  Saeed Jones

Nonfiction

• Go Ahead in the Rain

  Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back
  Naja Marie Aidt
• Say Nothing

  A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
  Patrick Radden Keefe
• The Ungrateful Refugee

  What Immigrants Never Tell You
  Dina Nayeri
• No Visible Bruises

  What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
  Rachel Louise Snyder

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2019, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• The Nickel Boys
  Colson Whitehead

Finalists

• Cantoras
  Carolina De Robertis
• The Other Americans
  Laila Lalami
• Lost Children Archive
  Valeria Luiselli
• Territory of Light
  Yuko Tsushima
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
  Ocean Vuong

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2019

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

Winner

• The Testaments
  Margaret Atwood
• Girl, Woman, Other
  Bernardine Evaristo

Shortlist

• Ducks, Newburyport
  Lucy Ellmann
• An Orchestra of Minorities
  Chigozie Obioma
• Quichotte
  Salman Rushdie
• 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
  Elif Shafak

Longlist

• Night Boat to Tangier
  Kevin Barry
• My Sister, the Serial Killer
  Oyinkan Braithwaite
• The Wall
  John Lanchester
• The Man Who Saw Everything
  Deborah Levy
• Lost Children Archive
  Valeria Luiselli
• Lanny
  Max Porter
• Frankissstein

  A Love Story
  Jeanette Winterson

Esquire: The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019

[see also The 20 Best Books of 2023 • The Best Books of 2022 • The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 • The 50 Best Books of 2021 • The Best Books of the 2010s]

1. No Visible Bruises

   What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
   Rachel Louise Snyder
2. Three Women
   Lisa Taddeo
3. Trick Mirror

   Reflections on Self-Delusion
   Jia Tolentino
4. Nobody's Victim

   Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
   Carrie Goldberg
5. Savage Appetites

   Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
   Rachel Monroe
6. She Said

   Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
   Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
7. Make It Scream, Make It Burn
   Leslie Jamison
8. Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl
   Jeannie Vanasco
9. In the Dream House
   Carmen Maria Machado
10. The Witches Are Coming
    Lindy West
11. For the Love of Men

    A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
    Liz Plank
12. Formation

    A Woman's Memoir of Stepping Out of Line
    Ryan Leigh Dostie
13. I Like to Watch

    Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
    Emily Nussbaum
14. Shapes of Native Nonfiction

    Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
    Elissa Washuta & Theresa Warburton (editors)
15. Because Internet

    Understanding the New Rules of Language
    Gretchen McCulloch
16. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
    T Kira Madden
17. Biased

    Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
    Jennifer L. Eberhardt
18. Working
    Robert A. Caro
19. I Miss You When I Blink
    Mary Laura Philpott
20. What My Mother and I Don't Talk About

    Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
    Michele Filgate (editor)
21. Rough Magic

    Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
    Lara Prior-Palmer

Women's Prize for Fiction: 2019

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

Winner

• An American Marriage
  Tayari Jones

Shortlist

• The Silence of the Girls
  Pat Barker
• Circe
  Madeline Miller
• Ordinary People
  Diana Evans
• My Sister, the Serial Killer
  Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Milkman
  Anna Burns

Longlist

• Bottled Goods
  Sophie van Llewyn
• Freshwater
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Ghost Wall
  Sarah Moss
• Lost Children Archive
  Valeria Luiselli
• Normal People
  Sally Rooney
• Number One Chinese Restaurant
  Lillian Li
• Praise Song for the Butterflies
  Bernice L. McFadden
• Remembered
  Yvonne Battle-Felton
• Swan Song
  Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
• The Pisces
  Melissa Broder