Smithsonian: Favorite Books of 2019 - Year-End Lists

Smithsonian: Favorite Books of 2019

27 November 2019

Smithsonian: Favorite Books of 2019, as selected individually by Smithsonian scholars

[see also 2018]

Searching for Black Confederates
The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth

Kevin M. Levin
The Greatest Beach
A History of the Cape Cod National Seashore

Ethan Carr
Peary's Arctic Quest
Untold Stories from Robert E. Peary’s North Pole Expeditions

Susan Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine
Solitary
Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope

Albert Woodfox
Sea People
The Puzzle of Polynesia

Christina Thompson
With the Fire on High

Elizabeth Acevedo
Illusions of Emancipation
The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery

Joseph P. Reidy
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time
Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls

Diana E. Marsh
We Return Fighting
World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity

Kinshasha Holman Conwill (editor)
Gods of the Upper Air
How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

Charles King
The Collected Schizophrenias

Esmé Weijun Wang
Zora and Langston
A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

Yuval Taylor
The Only Woman in the Room

Marie Benedict
The Uninhabitable Earth
Life After Warming

David Wallace-Wells
Empire's Tracks
Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad

Manu Karuka