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4,659,701. BEST BOOKS OF 2019. Announcing the winners of the Annual Goodreads Choice Awards, the only major book awards decided by readers. Congratulations to the best books of the year! View results. New to Goodreads? Get great book recommendations! Start Now. Categories. Fiction. Want to Read. Rate this book.
- The Silent Patient. Alex Michaelides. 4.11. 680k ratings. 1m shelvings. The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.
- Daisy Jones & The Six. Taylor Jenkins Reid. 4.20. 350k ratings. 614k shelvings. A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up.
- Such a Fun Age. Kiley Reid. 3.85. 286k ratings. 596k shelvings. A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.
- Anxious People. Fredrik Backman,Neil Smith (Translator), 4.25. 209k ratings. 547k shelvings. A poignant, charming novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined.
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Nov 25, 2019 · 100 Notable Books of 2019. The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Show All. Comics/Graphics. Fiction. Memoir....
Dec 5, 2019 · Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019. The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year. Share full article. 9. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times. By...
- Jojo Moyes
- Bernardine Evaristo
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- Mark Haddon
- Raymond Antrobus
- William Feaver
- Lucy Ellmann
- Olivia Laing
- Hilary Mckay
- Melissa Harrison
Shortlisted for novel of the year at the British Book awards for Still Me I often find it hard to remember what I’ve read, but Three Womenby Lisa Taddeo (Bloomsbury, £16.99) scorched its way into my consciousness. A journalistic deep dive into the desires and love lives of three women over eight years, it turns on its head much of what you think ab...
Joint winner of the Booker prize for Girl, Woman, Other Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’sManifesto for Change (Merky Books, £12.99) by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi is a groundbreaking and essential book about how it feels to be a young black woman studying in Britain’s white academic institutions. Zawe Ashton’s entertaining, fictionalised accoun...
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize for Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee I visited New Orleans for the first time on my book tour and was so grateful to have Sarah Broom’s The Yellow House (Little, Brown, £14.99) with me for the journey. It’s such a beautiful memoir, and it gives you a rich and complex portrait of...
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths prize for The Porpoise Friday Black, a collection of short stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Quercus, £8.99), has the thrilling strangeness of George Saunders but driven by a deep and justified anger about the racism and violence that constitute the bedrock of American society. That makes it sound worthy. It isn’t....
Winner of the Rathbones Folio prize for The Perseverance Choosing three books from such a great year, particularly for poetry collections, is hard but there are three politically and lyrically compelling books that I think will remain relevant in the years ahead. The first is Surgeby Jay Bernard (Chatto & Windus, £10). Partly influenced by dub poet...
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize for The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth 1922-1968 William Dalrymple’s stupendous The Anarchy (Bloomsbury, £30) propels into focus the story of the East India Company’s takeover of Mughal India, an exercise of opportunism, violence, shamelessness and, at times, heroic greed. More immediate is Edna O’Brien’s Gir...
Winner of the Goldsmiths prize for Ducks, Newburyport Three Muslim women have surreal adventures in Leila Aboulela’s latest novel, Bird Summons (W&N, £16.99), her wildest yet, full of her own take on myth, religion and womanhood. Aboulela, based in Aberdeen, deserves as big a following here as she has in Africa. Or bigger. Not strictly new, perhaps...
Winner of the James Tait Black memorial prize for fiction for Crudo Being increasingly future-averse, I was gripped by the title of I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going by Peter McGough before I tracked down a copy (it’s only published in the US), but this memoir is truly fascinating; a rags-to-riches rollercoaster about the 1980s art boom in dow...
Winner of the Costa children’s book award for The Skylarks’ War For me, 2019 has been a year of fantasy and folk tales, both new and retold, in every age group. For children, Lampie and the Children of the Sea(Pushkin Press, £12.99) by Annet Schaap stood out. Lampie, the daughter of a lighthouse keeper, is a girl of great and grumpy courage, with a...
Winner of the European Union prize for literature for All Among the Barley I was dazzled by Sandra Newman’s The Heavens (Granta, £12.99), which had a time-travel premise (and a noteworthy cameo) that really shouldn’t have worked but absolutely did. How she pulled it off is anyone’s guess, but it left me hugely envious of her confidence and skill. I...
Nov 22, 2019 · The 10 Best Books of 2019. The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. Share full article. 244. Published Nov. 22, 2019 Updated Nov. 25, 2019....
Dec 2, 2019 · Katy Waldman picks the best books of 2019, including “Mostly Dead Things,” by Kristen Arnett, “How We Fight for Our Lives,” by Saeed Jones, “On Earth We’re...
