Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

Books
Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe

The Best Books of 2019 Wall Street Journal

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

The Best Books I Read in 2019 Vox: Constance Grady

The Topeka School - Ben Lerner

Best Fiction of 2019 Powell's Books

Normal People - Sally Rooney

The 10 Best Books of 2019 Entertainment Weekly

Eve's Hollywood - Eve Babitz

Best Books of 2019 KCRW: Michael Silverblatt

The Topeka School - Ben Lerner

The Best Books of 2019 Vulture: Molly Young

Trick Mirror - Jia Tolentino

Best Nonfiction of 2019 Powell's Books

The Dutch House - Ann Patchett

Favorite Books of 2019 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

Trust Exercise - Susan Choi

The 10 Best Books of 2019 Slate: Laura Miller

Wild Game - Adrienne Brodeur

The 10 Best Books of 2019 Slate: Dan Kois

American Spy - Lauren Wilkinson

The 10 Best Books of 2019 Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli

The Best Books of 2019 New Yorker: Katy Waldman

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Best Books of the 2010s Esquire

The Yellow House - Sarah M. Broom

Top Ten Books of 2019 Chicago Public Library

The 20 Best Books of the Decade 2010-2019 For Reading Addicts

Favorite Books of 2019 Smithsonian

A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan

Top 10 Fiction Books of the 2010s Entertainment Weekly

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

100 Notable Books of 2019 New York Times

Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 Time

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019 Time

Disappearing Earth - Julia Phillips

The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times

Best Books of 2019 Washington Post

Trust Exercise - Susan Choi

Fiction 2019 National Book Award

The Yellow House - Sarah M. Broom

Nonfiction 2019 National Book Award