Year-End Lists

Anthony Domestico: 2019 Books in Review, as published by Commonweal Magazine. Domestico is "only listing books that I haven’t yet had a chance to write on" and has "tried to avoid books that have popped up again and again on end-of-year lists."

• Lay Studies
  Steven Toussaint
• The Heavens
  Sandra Newman
• The Corner That Held Them
  Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Hue and Cry
  James Alan McPherson
• The Manzoni Family
  Natalia Ginzburg
• Human Relations and Other Difficulties
  Mary-Kay Wilmers
• What It Is

  Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues
  Clifford Thompson
• Where Reasons End
  Yiyun Li
• No Matter
  Jana Prikryl
• In My Mind's Eye

  A Thought Diary
  Jan Morris
• Yellow Notebook

  Diaries Volume I 1978–1987
  Helen Garner
• The Caiplie Caves
  Karen Solie
• Cleanness
  Garth Greenwell