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My Year in Books, 2019

Novels, Literary Fiction

  • Mostly Dead Things (2019), by Kristen Arnett
  • Trust Exercise (2019), by Susan Choi
  • The Book of X (2019), by Sarah Rose Etter
  • How to Set Yourself On Fire (2018), by Julia Dixon Evans
  • My Brilliant Friend (2011), by Elena Ferrante
  • Cleanness (2020), by Garth Greenwell
  • What Belongs to You (2016), by Garth Greenwell
  • The Fortunes (2016), by Peter Ho Davies
  • A River of Stars (2018), by Vanessa Hua
  • Goodbye, Vitamin (2017), by Rachel Khong
  • The Golden State (2018), by Lydia Kiesling
  • The Education of Margot Sanchez (2017), by Lilliam Rivera
  • No One Can Pronounce My Name (2017), by Rakesh Satyal
  • Winter (2017), by Ali Smith
  • Real Life (2020), by Brandon Taylor

Novels & Novellas, Speculative Fiction

  • The Only Harmless Great Thing (2018), by Brooke Bolander
  • Tiamat’s Wrath (2019), by James S. A. Corey
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War (2019), by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
  • The Lilies of the Dawn (2016), by Vanessa Fogg
  • Magic for Liars (2019), by Sarah Gailey
  • Three Parts Dead (2012), by Max Gladstone
  • The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974), by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Binti: Home (2017), by Nnedi Okorafor
  • Dealing in Dreams (2019), by Lilliam Rivera
  • Trail of Lightning (2018), by Rebecca Roanhorse
  • The Ascent to Godhood (2019), by JY Yang
  • The Book of Joan (2017), by Lidia Yuknavitch

Story Collections

  • Felt in the Jaw (2017), by Kristen Arnett
  • White Dancing Elephants (2018), by Chaya Bhuvaneswar
  • Feathered Serpent / Dark Heart of Sky (2018), by David Bowles
  • Exhalation (2019), by Ted Chiang
  • Stories of Your Life and Others (2002), by Ted Chiang
  • Her Body and Other Parties (2017), by Carmen Maria Machado
  • Nosy White Woman (2019), by Martha Wilson

Poetry

  • A Fortune for Your Disaster (2019), by Hanif Abdurraqib
  • Calling a Wolf a Wolf (2017), by Kaveh Akbar
  • If They Come for Us (2018), by Fatimah Asghar
  • They Call Me Güero (2018), by David Bowles
  • Soft Science (2019), by Franny Choi
  • Your Strange Fortune (2019), by Chloe N. Clark
  • Our Debatable Bodies (2019), by Marisa Crane
  • When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012), by Natalie Diaz
  • Unyielding (2019), by Karl Gilman
  • Deaf Republic (2019), by Ilya Kaminsky
  • Whereas (2017), by Laylee Long Soldier
  • Oceanic (2018), by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
  • Feed (2019), by Tommy Pico
  • Junk (2018), by Tommy Pico
  • Nature Poem (2017), by Tommy Pico
  • Why Can’t It Be Tenderness (2018), by Michelle Brittan Rosado
  • My Private Property (2016), by Mary Ruefle
  • The Year of Blue Water (2019), by Yanyi
  • The Pedestrians (2014), by Rachel Zucker

Graphic Novels

  • The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited (2019), by the McElroys and Carey Pietsch
  • Saga, Vol. 2 (2013), by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
  • Saga, Vol. 3 (2014), by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
  • Saga, Vol. 4 (2014), by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
  • Saga, Vol. 5 (2015), by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
  • Saga, Vol. 6 (2016), by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples

Nonfiction & Other

  • Go Ahead in the Rain (2019), by Hanif Abdurraqib
  • The Pretty One (2019), by Keah Brown
  • God Land (2019), by Lyz Lenz
  • Gmorning, Gnight! (2018), by Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Bluets (2009), by Maggie Nelson
  • The Collected Schizophrenias (2019), by Esmé Weijun Wang

Read Aloud with My Kids

  • Ramona and Her Father (1977), by Beverly Cleary
  • The Dark Is Rising (1973), by Susan Cooper
  • Greenwitch (1974), by Susan Cooper
  • The Grey King (1975), by Susan Cooper
  • Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (2009), by Grace Lin
  • Esperanza Rising (2000), by Pam Muñoz Ryan
  • The Sea of Monsters (2006), by Rick Riordan
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1999), by J. K. Rowling
  • When You Reach Me (2009), by Rebecca Stead