Year-End Lists

The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2019

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2024 • 100 Notable Books of 2024 • The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 100 Notable Books of 2023 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 100 Notable Books of 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 100 Notable Books of 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2020 • The 10 Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The 10 Best Books of 2014 • The 10 Best Books of 2013 • 100 Notable Books of 2012 • 10 Best Books of 2012 • 100 Notable Books of 2011 • Ten Best Books of 2011]

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

  The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
  Shoshana Zuboff
• American Spy
  Lauren Wilkinson
• Antisocial

  Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
  Andrew Marantz
• Audience of One

  Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
  James Poniewozik
• Bangkok Wakes to Rain
  Pitchaya Sudbanthad
• Becoming
  Michelle Obama
• The Beneficiary

  Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
  Janny Scott
• The Body in Question
  Jill Ciment
• Bottle of Lies

  The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
  Katherine Eban
• The British Are Coming

  The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
  Rick Atkinson
• Cherokee, America
  Margaret Verble
• The Club

  Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
  Leo Damrosch
• The Conservative Sensibility
  George F. Will
• The Crowded Hour

  Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
  Clay Risen
• Deaf Republic
  Ilya Kaminsky
• Disappearing Earth
  Julia Phillips
• Ducks, Newburyport
  Lucy Ellmann
• The Dutch House
  Ann Patchett
• The Education of an Idealist
  Samantha Power
• Exhalation
  Ted Chiang
• Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
  Neal Stephenson
• Fleishman Is in Trouble
  Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• Full Throttle
  Joe Hill
• Furious Hours

  Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
  Casey Cep
• Girl
  Edna O’Brien
• The Godmother
  Hannelore Cayre
• The Gone Dead
  Chanelle Benz
• Good Talk

  A Memoir in Conversations
  Mira Jacob
• Grace Will Lead Us Home

  The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness
  Jennifer Berry Hawes
• The Grammarians
  Cathleen Schine
• Grand Union
  Zadie Smith
• Growing Things
  Paul Tremblay
• The Guarded Gate

  Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
  Daniel Okrent
• Guest House for Young Widows

  Among the Women of ISIS
  Azadeh Moaveni
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

  Native America from 1890 to the Present
  David Treuer
• The Heavens
  Sandra Newman
• Horizon
  Barry Lopez
• How to Be an Antiracist
  Ibram X. Kendi
• How We Fight for Our Lives
  Saeed Jones
• If

  The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years
  Christopher Benfey
• The Impeachers

  The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
  Brenda Wineapple
• In Byron's Wake

  The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
  Miranda Seymour
• In Hoffa's Shadow

  A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
  Jack Goldsmith
• The Institute
  Stephen King
• Know My Name
  Chanel Miller
• Kochland

  The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
  Christopher Leonard
• Last Day
  Domenica Ruta
• The Last Whalers

  Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life
  Doug Bock Clark
• The Lost Art of Scripture

  Rescuing the Sacred Texts
  Karen Armstrong
• Lost Children Archive
  Valeria Luiselli
• Lot
  Bryan Washington
• Maid

  Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
  Stephanie Land
• Mama's Last Hug

  Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
  Frans de Waal
• Maggie Brown & Others
  Peter Orner
• The Man Who Saw Everything
  Deborah Levy
• Margaret Thatcher

  The Authorized Biography: Herself Alone
  Charles Moore
• The Mastermind

  Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal
  Evan Ratliff
• The Memory Police
  Yoko Ogawa
• Midnight in Chernobyl

  The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
  Adam Higginbotham
• Mostly Dead Things
  Kristen Arnett
• Mrs. Everything
  Jennifer Weiner
• The Need
  Helen Phillips
• The Nickel Boys
  Colson Whitehead
• Night Boat to Tangier
  Kevin Barry
• No Visible Bruises

  What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
  Rachel Louise Snyder
• Normal People
  Sally Rooney
• Nothing to See Here
  Kevin Wilson
• Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
  Andrew Miller
• The Octopus Museum
  Brenda Shaughnessy
• The Old Drift
  Namwali Serpell
• Optic Nerve
  Maria Gainza
• Our Man

  Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
  George Packer
• The Parisian
  Isabella Hammad
• The Problem with Everything

  My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
  Meghan Daum
• Rabbits for Food
  Binnie Kirshenbaum
• Red at the Bone
  Jacqueline Woodson
• The Revisioners
  Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
• Rusty Brown
  Chris Ware
• Say Nothing

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

  The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
  Steve Luxenberg
• The Shadow King
  Maaza Mengiste
• She Said

  Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
  Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
• She Was Like That

  New and Selected Stories
  Kate Walbert
• Solitary

  Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope
  Albert Woodfox
• Spring
  Ali Smith
• Stony the Road

  Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
  Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• The Testaments
  Margaret Atwood
• Thick

  And Other Essays
  Tressie McMillan Cottom
• The Topeka School
  Ben Lerner
• The Tradition
  Jericho Brown
• Trick Mirror

  Reflections on Self-Delusion
  Jia Tolentino
• Underland

  A Deep Time Journey
  Robert Macfarlane
• The Uninhabitable Earth

  Life After Warming
  David Wallace-Wells
• The Unwinding of the Miracle

  A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
  Julie Yip-Williams
• The War Before the War

  Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
  Andrew Delbanco
• Westside
  W.M. Akers
• What You Have Heard Is True

  A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
  Carolyn Forché
• Women Talking
  Miriam Toews
• Women's Work

  A Reckoning with Work and Home
  Megan K. Stack
• The Yellow House
  Sarah M. Broom