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The Most Recommended Books of 2019

We counted 5,549 entries from 143 sources in 2019. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead appeared on 26, 2 more than any other book.

A source counts once per book, whatever the result: a win, a shortlist place, or a list pick. We show books named by 3 or more sources. 2019 is the award or list year, not the publication year.

26 sources

  1. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

24 sources

  1. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

19 sources

  1. Normal People by Sally Rooney

17 sources

  1. Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

  2. Underland by Robert Macfarlane

16 sources

  1. In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

  2. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

  3. The Topeka School: A Novel by Ben Lerner

  4. The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom

15 sources

  1. Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

  2. Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

  3. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

  4. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

14 sources

  1. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

  2. Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang

  3. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer

13 sources

  1. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

  2. Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

  3. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  4. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

  5. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

12 sources

  1. Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

  2. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

  3. How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones

  4. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder

11 sources

  1. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

  2. Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

  3. On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

  4. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

  5. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

  6. She Said by Jodi Kantor

  7. Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson

  8. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

  9. The Need by Helen Phillips

  10. The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson

10 sources

  1. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

  2. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

  3. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

  4. Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds

  5. Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

  6. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

9 sources

  1. American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

  2. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

  3. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

  4. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

  5. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

  6. Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry

  7. Our Man by George Packer

  8. Small in the City by Sydney Smith

  9. The Lost Man by Jane Harper

  10. The Other Americans by Laila Lalami

  11. Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

8 sources

  1. Frankly in Love by David Yoon

  2. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

  3. Go Ahead in the Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib

  4. Inland by Téa Obreht

  5. Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

  6. Lanny by Max Porter

  7. Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

  8. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

  9. The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy

  10. The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell

  11. The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

  12. They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

7 sources

  1. Another by Christian Robinson

  2. Birdsong by Julie Flett

  3. Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily Bazelon

  4. Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

  5. Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington

  6. Lovely War by Julie Berry

  7. My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero

  8. New Kid by Jerry Craft

  9. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

  10. Rusty Brown by Chris Ware

  11. Saturday by Oge Mora

  12. Solitary by Albert Woodfox and Leslie George

  13. The Tradition by Jericho Brown

  14. The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

  15. There There by Tommy Orange

  16. Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

  17. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

  18. This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews

  19. Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur

  20. With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

6 sources

  1. A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired A Nation by Barry Wittenstein

  2. Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik

  3. Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin

  4. Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken

  5. Conviction by Denise Mina

  6. Figuring by Maria Popova

  7. Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard

  8. Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams

  9. Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

  10. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

  11. How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr

  12. Lalani of the Distant Sea by Erin Entrada Kelly

  13. Mama's Last Hug by Frans de Waal

  14. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

  15. Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

  16. Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

  17. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

  18. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

  19. Parkland by Dave Cullen

  20. Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

  21. Patsy: A Novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn

  22. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

  23. The Border by Don Winslow

  24. The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson

  25. The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

  26. The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys

  27. The Line Tender by Kate Allen

  28. The World Doesn't Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott

  29. Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby

  30. Wilder Girls by Rory Power

  31. Women Talking by Miriam Toews

  32. Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

5 sources

  1. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

  2. A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata

  3. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

  4. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

  5. An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz

  6. Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin

  7. Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad

  8. Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

  9. Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai

  10. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

  11. Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

  12. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

  13. Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg

  14. Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

  15. Get A Life, Chloe Brown: A Novel by Talia Hibbert

  16. Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

  17. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  18. Gods of the Upper Air: How A Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King

  19. Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay

  20. Guts by Raina Telgemeier

  21. I Like To Watch: Arguing My Way Through the Television Revolution by Emily Nussbaum

  22. Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

  23. It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear

  24. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir by T Kira Madden

  25. Maid by Stephanie Land

  26. November Road by Lou Berney

  27. Pay Attention, Carter Jones by Gary D. Schmidt

  28. Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai

  29. Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe

  30. Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

  31. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

  32. Spring by Ali Smith

  33. Stargazing by Jen Wang

  34. The Anarchy by William Dalrymple

  35. The Bell Rang by James Ransome

  36. The Body by Bill Bryson

  37. The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

  38. The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

  39. The Club: Johnson, Boswell and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch

  40. The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

  41. The Deep by Rivers Solomon

  42. The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power

  43. The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett

  44. The Institute by Stephen King

  45. The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake

  46. The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart

  47. The Overstory by Richard Powers

  48. The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad

  49. The Shadow King: A Novel by Maaza Mengiste

  50. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

  51. The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin

  52. The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West

  53. This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy

  54. What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché

4 sources

  1. A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley

  2. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

  3. A Prince On Paper by Alyssa Cole

  4. All the Greys on Greene Street by Laura Tucker

  5. All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg

  6. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  7. An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma

  8. Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch

  9. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban

  10. Brother by David Chariandy

  11. Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis

  12. Circe by Madeline Miller

  13. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

  14. Clyde Fans by Seth

  15. Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa

  16. Dig by A.S. King

  17. Disoriental by Négar Djavadi

  18. Dodging and Burning by John Copenhaver

  19. Dunce by Mary Ruefle

  20. Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat

  21. Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson

  22. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight

  23. Full Throttle by Joe Hill

  24. Girl by Edna O'Brien

  25. Grand Union by Zadie Smith

  26. Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

  27. Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni

  28. Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki

  29. Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke

  30. I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

  31. I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib

  32. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

  33. Indian-Ish by Priya Krishna

  34. Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey From World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan

  35. Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro

  36. Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw

  37. Kochland: The Secret History Of Koch Industries And Corporate Power In America by Christopher Leonard

  38. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl

  39. Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali

  40. Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison

  41. Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

  42. Milkman by Anna Burns

  43. Moth: An Evolution Story by Isabel Thomas

  44. Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin

  45. Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

  46. Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku

  47. Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi

  48. Orange World And Other Stories by Karen Russell

  49. Ordinary People by Diana Evans

  50. Queen Of The Sea by Dylan Meconis

  51. Quichotte by Salman Rushdie

  52. Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Alberto Pablo Hernandez

  53. Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson

  54. Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

  55. Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini

  56. Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell S. Jackson

  57. The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman

  58. The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

  59. The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay

  60. The Innocents by Michael Crummey

  61. The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth by William Feaver

  62. The Moon Within by Aida Salazar

  63. The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

  64. The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy

  65. The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina

  66. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

  67. The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin

  68. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

  69. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison

  70. The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

  71. The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams

  72. Titanosaur: Discovering the World's Largest Dinosaur by Jose Luis Carballido and Diego Pol

  73. Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

  74. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia

  75. Truman by Jean Reidy

  76. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

  77. When Aidan Became A Brother by Kyle Lukoff

  78. Who Wet My Pants? by Bob Shea and Zachariah O'Hora

  79. Witchmark by C. L. Polk

  80. Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith

3 sources

  1. A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill

  2. A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

  3. A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio

  4. A Good Kind Of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée

  5. A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle

  6. A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder by Dianne Freeman

  7. Antisocial by Andrew Marantz

  8. Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

  9. Be Recorder by Carmen Giménez Smith

  10. Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin

  11. Best Friends by Shannon Hale

  12. Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo

  13. Birthday by Meredith Russo

  14. Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard

  15. Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller

  16. Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist’s Journey, Vol. 1 by Akiko Higashimura

  17. Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

  18. Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean

  19. Broken Places by Tracy Clark

  20. Bttm Fdrs by Ezra Claytan Daniels

  21. Bunny by Mona Awad

  22. Burn the Place: A Memoir by Iliana Regan

  23. Camp Tiger by Susan Choi

  24. Cicada by Shaun Tan

  25. Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s by Leslie S. Klinger

  26. Coventry: Essays by Rachel Cusk

  27. Crab Cake: Turning the Tide Together by Andrea Tsurumi

  28. Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand

  29. Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreno Played the Piano for President Lincoln by Margarita Engle

  30. Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

  31. Days by Moonlight by André Alexis

  32. Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee

  33. Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

  34. Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin

  35. Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories by Ellen Datlow

  36. Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson

  37. Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century by Sarah Abrevaya Stein

  38. Find Me by André Aciman

  39. First by Evan Thomas

  40. Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child by Laura Cumming

  41. Floating Coast: An Environmental History Of The Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth

  42. Fly Already by Etgar Keret

  43. For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama Lockington

  44. Going Down Home With Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons

  45. Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

  46. Hey, Water! by Antoinette Portis

  47. Hiroshima Boy by Naomi Hirahara

  48. Home In The Woods by Eliza Wheeler

  49. Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers

  50. House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

  51. How Long ’Til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin

  52. How to Read a Book by Kwame Alexander

  53. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee

  54. I Miss You When I Blink: Essays by Mary Laura Philpott

  55. If All the World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton

  56. If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin

  57. Immigrant City: And Other Stories by David Bezmozgis

  58. In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum

  59. In West Mills by De'Shawn Charles Winslow

  60. Internment by Samira Ahmed

  61. It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn

  62. Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier

  63. Juana & Lucas: Big Problemas by Juana Medina

  64. Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin

  65. Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley

  66. Light It up by Kekla Magoon

  67. Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian

  68. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry

  69. Lost and Wanted by Nell Freudenberger

  70. Lubna and Pebble by Wendy Meddour

  71. Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan

  72. Madame Fourcade's Secret War by Lynne Olson

  73. Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell

  74. Marilou is Everywhere by Sarah Elaine Smith

  75. Monstrous: The Lore, Gore, and Science Behind your Favorite Monsters by Carlyn Beccia

  76. Murmur by Will Eaves

  77. Music: A Subversive History by Ted Gioia

  78. Nine Months: Before a Baby Is Born by Miranda Paul and Jason Chin

  79. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg

  80. Nothing Fancy by Alison Roman

  81. Oculus: Poems by Sally Wen Mao

  82. On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons by Laura Cumming

  83. Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir by Jayson Greene

  84. Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

  85. Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza

  86. Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes

  87. Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare, Vol. 1 by Yuhki Kamatani

  88. Oval by Elvia Wilk

  89. Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Denise

  90. Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell

  91. Rabbits For Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum

  92. Recursion by Blake Crouch

  93. Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee

  94. River by Elisha Cooper

  95. Say Say Say: A Novel by Lila Savage

  96. Semiosis by Sue Burke

  97. Severance by Ling Ma

  98. Sing to It by Amy Hempel

  99. Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us by Ruth Kassinger

  100. Space Invaders by Nona Fernández

  101. Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

  102. Spying On The South: An Odyssey Across The American Divide by Tony Horwitz

  103. Suffragette: The Battle for Equality by David Roberts

  104. Super Pumped by Mike Isaac

  105. Surge by Jay Bernard

  106. Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman

  107. The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper

  108. The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

  109. The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

  110. The Body In Question: A Novel by Jill Ciment

  111. The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

  112. The Chain by Adrian McKinty

  113. The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

  114. The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins

  115. The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones

  116. The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang

  117. The Farm by Joanne Ramos

  118. The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson

  119. The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

  120. The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger

  121. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

  122. The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

  123. The Grammarians: A Novel by Cathleen Schine

  124. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

  125. The Heavens by Sandra Newman

  126. The Impeachers: The Trial Of Andrew Johnson And The Dream Of A Just Nation by Brenda Wineapple

  127. The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara

  128. The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal

  129. The Last Last-Day-Of-Summer by Lamar Giles and Dapo Adeola

  130. The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull

  131. The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

  132. The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley

  133. The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

  134. The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. by Evan Ratliff

  135. The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake

  136. The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg

  137. The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin

  138. The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

  139. The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus

  140. The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in Our Food and Drugs by Gail Jarrow

  141. The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang

  142. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

  143. The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman

  144. The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai

  145. The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip Hop by Carole Boston Weatherford

  146. The Ruin Of Kings by Jenn Lyons

  147. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

  148. The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, And Care by Anne Boyer

  149. The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri

  150. The Wall by John Lanchester

  151. The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

  152. The Years by Annie Ernaux

  153. This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura

  154. Tinfoil Butterfly by Rachel Eve Moulton

  155. Tombland by C. J. Sansom

  156. Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

  157. Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship" by Deborah Heiligman

  158. Two Brothers, Four Hands: The Artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

  159. Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus

  160. Under a Dark Sky by Lori Rader-Day

  161. Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson

  162. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

  163. We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

  164. We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

  165. What Doesn’t Kill You by Aimee Hix

  166. What Is Given From the Heart by Pat McKissack

  167. What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate

  168. What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper

  169. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back by Naja Marie Aidt

  170. Where Reasons End: A Novel by Yiyun Li

  171. Zaitoun by Yasmin Khan

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