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Vogue Best Books of the Year 2019

Vogue Best Books of the Year 2019 names 21 books. 9 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.

  1. Agent Running in the Field by John le Carrésource (opens in a new tab)
  2. All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenbergsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keanesource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon Jamessource (opens in a new tab)
  5. Bunny by Mona Awadsource (opens in a new tab)
  6. Find Me by André Acimansource (opens in a new tab)
  7. Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Aknersource (opens in a new tab)
  8. Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemisource (opens in a new tab)
  9. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristosource (opens in a new tab)
  10. Looker by Laura Simssource (opens in a new tab)
  11. Lost and Wanted by Nell Freudenbergersource (opens in a new tab)
  12. Normal People by Sally Rooneysource (opens in a new tab)
  13. Olive, Again by Elizabeth Stroutsource (opens in a new tab)
  14. Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuistonsource (opens in a new tab)
  15. Stay Up with Hugo Best by Erin Somerssource (opens in a new tab)
  16. Supper Club by Lara Williamssource (opens in a new tab)
  17. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Graysource (opens in a new tab)
  18. The Dutch House by Ann Patchettsource (opens in a new tab)
  19. The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wellssource (opens in a new tab)
  20. The Parisian by Isabella Hammadsource (opens in a new tab)
  21. The Topeka School by Ben Lernersource (opens in a new tab)

About the Vogue Best Books of the Year

Vogue's year-end best books article each year, unranked, stored as one Best Books list. Vogue blocks AI fetchers in robots.txt, so every page was read from web.archive.org copies of vogue.com, taken just after each year closed. 2014, 2015, and 2017 are book critic Megan O'Grady's ten best; 2018 is editors' favorite reads of the year; 2019 is titled The 21 Best Novels of 2019; 2020-2024 are editors' and writers' picks. 2021, 2023, and 2024 are running lists that Vogue built through the year and closed as the year's best. 2022 and 2025 are left out: their pages still carried the headline "So Far" in every archived copy after the year ended. No year-end list was found for 2016 or before 2014. Vogue's seasonal, monthly, gift, and genre book lists are left out. Some headings lack an author or misspell one; those values come from yearendlists.com, rizzolibookstore.com, hachettebookgroup.com (Less, 2018), and Wikipedia (The Vanity Fair Diaries, 2018). 2015 and 2017 rows were read from yearendlists.com and checked against the archived Vogue pages.

Organization: Vogue. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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