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Wild Game - Adrienne Brodeur

The 10 Best Books of 2019 Slate: Dan Kois

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

The 10 Best Books of 2019 Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli

The Best Books of 2019 New Yorker: Katy Waldman

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Best Books of the 2010s Esquire

The Dutch House - Ann Patchett

Top Ten Books of 2019 Chicago Public Library

The 20 Best Books of the Decade 2010-2019 For Reading Addicts

Favorite Books of 2019 Smithsonian

A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan

Top 10 Fiction Books of the 2010s Entertainment Weekly

Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson

100 Notable Books of 2019 New York Times

Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 Time

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019 Time

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times

Best Books of 2019 Washington Post

Trust Exercise - Susan Choi

Fiction 2019 National Book Award

The Yellow House - Sarah M. Broom

Nonfiction 2019 National Book Award

The Tiger’s Wife - Téa Obreht

The 20 Best Novels of the 2010s Lit Hub

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

Best Literary Fiction of 2019 Library Journal

The Best Novels of 2019 Vogue

Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellmann

Best Fiction of 2019 Goldsmiths Prize

The Sellout - Paul Beatty

The 10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s Time

The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Best Books of 2019 O Magazine

The Most Fun We Ever Had - Claire Lombardo

The Best Books of 2019 She Reads

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s Time

The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s Lit Hub

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