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The 28 Best Books of 2019

Elle

November 22, 2019 at 9:19 AM

The 28 Best Books of 2019

1) In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado

2) She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor & MeganTwohey

3) Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith

4) The Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

5) Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

6) How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones

7) Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

8) A Year Without a Name: A Memoir by Cyrus Grace Dunham

9) Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

10) The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

11) The Other's Gold by Elizabeth Ames

12) The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste

13) Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro

14) Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

15) Women Talking by Miriam Toews

16) Magical Negro by Morgan Parker

17) Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

18) Normal People by Sally Rooney

19) Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

20) The Gone Dead by Chanelle Benz

21) Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

22) Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

23) City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

24) Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

25) On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

26) The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg

27) How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

28) Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

The 28 Best Books of 2019

If you were hoping you could ignore that book everyone's putting on their Instagram, sorry—it's good. Along with Sally Rooney's buzzy novel Normal People, Jacqueline Woodson's latest Red at the Bone, and Lisa Taddeo's much-debated Three Women, here are 20 of the best books of 2019 so far. Among them you'll find true stories of wayward women, memoirs of family discovery, and novels that sharply reflect our lives and times.

Tales of wayward women and Instagram-famous novels to dip into now.

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