Mystery & crime · 2019

Best Mystery & Crime Books of 2019

Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke was the most-recognized mystery & crime book of 2019, named by 6 of the 151 sources we track. The table ranks all 15 by how many sources named them.

Sources is the number of distinct awards and year-end lists that name the book's ISBN, in any year. 2019 is the award or list year in our catalog.

#	Book	Author	Sources	Named by
1	Heaven, My Home	Attica Locke	6	Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2019 Finalist The Orwell Prize (book prizes) 2020 Shortlist Lefty Awards 2020 Nominee BookPage Best Books of the Year 2019 Selection Kirkus Best Books of the Year 2019 Selection NPR Books We Love 2019 Selection
2	Agent Running In The Field: A Novel	John le Carré	1	Vogue Best Books of the Year 2019 Selection
3	American Spy: A Novel	Lauren Wilkinson	1	New York Times 100 Notable Books 2019 Selection
4	Disappearing Earth: A Novel	Julia Phillips	1	New York Times 100 Notable Books 2019 Selection
5	A Friend Is A Gift You Give Yourself: A Novel	William Boyle	0
6	Any Old Diamonds	KJ Charles	0
7	Black Souls	Gioacchino Criaco, translated by Hillary Gulley	0
8	Conviction	Denise Mina	0
9	Down the River Unto the Sea	Walter Mosley	0
10	Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead: A Novel	Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones	0
11	Magic For Liars: A Novel	Sarah Gailey	0
12	Recursion: A Novel	Blake Crouch	0
13	The Other End Of The Line	Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli	0
14	The Sentence Is Death: A Novel	Anthony Horowitz	0
15	The Wolf And The Watchman: A Novel	Niklas Natt och Dag	0