Year-End Lists

BuzzFeed: Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2018]

Fiction

• The Nickel Boys
  Colson Whitehead
• Olive, Again
  Elizabeth Strout
• Gingerbread
  Helen Oyeyemi
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
  Ocean Vuong
• Nothing to See Here
  Kevin Wilson
• The Old Drift
  Namwali Serpell
• The Organs of Sense
  Adam Ehrlich Sachs
• Women Talking
  Miriam Toews
• Machines Like Me
  Ian McEwan
• Patsy
  Nicole Dennis-Benn
• The Book of X
  Sarah Rose Etter
• The World Doesn't Require You
  Rion Amilcar Scott
• The Dutch House
  Ann Patchett
• Your House Will Pay
  Steph Cha
• Fly Already
  Etgar Keret
• Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
  Sarah Pinsker
• Everything Under
  Daisy Johnson
• The Tenth Muse
  Catherine Chung
• All This Could Be Yours
  Jami Attenberg
• The Topeka School
  Ben Lerner
• Lot
  Bryan Washington
• The Man Who Saw Everything
  Deborah Levy
• In West Mills
  De'Shawn Charles Winslow

Nonfiction

• The Yellow House
  Sarah M. Broom
• Say Nothing

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

  Notes on an All-American Family
  Mitchell Jackson
• The Queen

  The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
  Josh Levin
• Good Talk

  A Memoir in Conversations
  Mira Jacob
• The Collected Schizophrenias
  Esmé Weijun Wang
• Wild Game

  My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
  Adrienne Brodeur
• How We Fight for Our Lives
  Saeed Jones
• In the Dream House
  Carmen Maria Machado
• Homesick
  Jennifer Croft
• The World According to Fannie Davis

  My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
  Bridgett M. Davis