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The New York Times' 10 best books of 2019

The top 3 according to 16 votes from people: Disappearing Earth — Julia Phillips · Exhalation — Ted Chiang · Lost Children Archive — Valeria Luiselli. (Updated Dec 22, 2024.)

The ten books the New York Times Book Review picked as the best of 2019: five fiction and five non-fiction.

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Top 10

  1. 1

    Disappearing Earth — Julia Phillips

    Fiction.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  2. 2

    Exhalation — Ted Chiang

    Fiction.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  3. 3

    Lost Children Archive — Valeria Luiselli

    Fiction.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  4. 4

    Night Boat to Tangier — Kevin Barry

    Fiction.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  5. 5

    Say Nothing — Patrick Radden Keefe

    Non-fiction.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  6. 6

    The Club — Leo Damrosch

    Non-fiction.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  7. 7

    The Yellow House — Sarah M. Broom

    Non-fiction.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  8. 8

    No Visible Bruises — Rachel Louise Snyder

    Non-fiction.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  9. 9

    Midnight in Chernobyl — Adam Higginbotham

    Non-fiction.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  10. 10

    The Topeka School — Ben Lerner

    Fiction.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 1

    0

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