NPR Best Book2019

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Other Names: NPR: Books We Love
73 Works 73,568 Books 3,455 Reviews ½ 4.0
Years:
All, 2023 (71), 2022 (72), 2021 (69), 2020 (70), 2019 (73), 2018 (38), 2017 (18), 2016 (14), 2015 (15), 2014 (19), 2013 (3)
WorkYear
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen
2019
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
2019
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
2019
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
2019
Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom by Adam Chandler
2019
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
2019
The Body in Question by Jill Ciment
2019
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
2019
Black Souls by Gioacchino Criaco
2019
Recursion by Blake Crouch
2019
Parkland by Dave Cullen
2019
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth
2019
Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
2019
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
2019
Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson
2019
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate
2019
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
2019
Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring by Richard Gergel
2019
Palestine + 100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba by Basma Ghalayini
2019
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
2019
Sing to It by Amy Hempel
2019
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
2019
Republic Of Shame by Caelainn Hogan
2019
Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History by Peter Houlahan
2019
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
2019
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack
2019
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
2019
The Wall by John Lanchester
2019
Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe
2019
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America by Christopher Leonard
2019
Supernova Era by Cixin Liu
2019
Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
2019
Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke
2019
A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Joshua Lyon
2019
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
2019
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
2019
Nobody's Looking at You: Essays by Janet Malcolm
2019
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
2019
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
2019
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
2019
The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer by Caitlin Murray
2019
The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag
2019
The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
2019
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum
2019
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
2019
The Need by Helen Phillips
2019
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
2019
Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores by Orrin H. Pilkey
2019
A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
2019
Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik
2019
Lanny by Max Porter
2019
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
2019
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
2019
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
2019
The Editor by Steven Rowley
2019
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
2019
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
2019
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
2019
The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel by Julie Satow
2019
The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine
2019
In the Country of Women: A Memoir by Susan Straight
2019
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
2019
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
2019
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
2019
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
2019
Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay
2019
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
2019
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
2019
One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America by Gene Weingarten
2019
Wanderers: A Novel by Chuck Wendig
2019
The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
2019
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2019
Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia
2019

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