Year-End Lists

Constance Grady: The Best Books I Read in 2019, as published by Vox

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2020]

Fiction

• Fleishman Is in Trouble
  Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• The Dead Queens Club
  Hannah Capin
• Trust Exercise
  Susan Choi
• City of Girls
  Elizabeth Gilbert
• Normal People
  Sally Rooney
• Women Talking
  Miriam Toews
• The Nickel Boys
  Colson Whitehead

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Ninth House
  Leigh Bardugo
• Exhalation
  Ted Chiang
• Gideon the Ninth
  Tamsyn Muir
• The Book of Dust

  The Secret Commonwealth
  Philip Pullman

Nonfiction

• Sounds Like Titanic
  Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
• Because Internet

  Understanding the New Rules of Language
  Gretchen McCulloch
• Midnight Chicken

  & Other Recipes Worth Living For
  Ella Risbridger
• Trick Mirror

  Reflections on Self-Delusion
  Jia Tolentino