Year-End Lists

Laura Miller: The 10 Best Books of 2019, as published by Slate

Fiction

• Trust Exercise
  Susan Choi
• Gingerbread
  Helen Oyeyemi
• Normal People
  Sally Rooney
• Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
  Neal Stephenson
• The Nickel Boys
  Colson Whitehead

Nonfiction

• The Yellow House
  Sarah M. Broom
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

  Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
  Saidiya Hartman
• Say Nothing

  A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
  Patrick Radden Keefe
• Underland

  A Deep Time Journey
  Robert Macfarlane
• Audience of One

  Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
  James Poniewozik