Book Lists for Dec. 6-12, 2019

Everyone else is doing it, so I had to as well. Yes, I listed the best books I read this year. There are many more best of the year book lists below. But only two full weeks remain in 2019, so we’re nearing the end of this book list parade. Happy reading, holiday shoppers!

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Book Lists for December

• The Best Recent Poetry Collections (The Guardian)

• 86 Reader Recommendations for Festive Holiday Fiction (Modern Mrs. Darcy)

• 11 Books to Read if You’re Alone for the Holidays This Year (The Oprah Magazine)

Best of the Year Book Lists

• The Greatest Books I Read This Year (Nicholas Barron)

• The Ultimate Best Books of 2019 List (Literary Hub)

• The Best Overlooked Books of 2019 (Vulture)

• We Read These 29 Books in 2019. You Should Too (PBS Newshour)

• The Most Popular Books of 2019, According to Amazon (Popsugar)

• The Best Books of 2019 (Variety)

• Bill Gates’s 5 Books to Enjoy This Winter (GatesNotes)

• 18 Best Books of 2019, According to Boston-Area Experts (Boston.com)

• Constance Grady’s Best Books of 2019 (Vox)

• The Best 25 Books of 2019 (Parade)

• The A.V. Club’s 15 Favorite Books of 2019 (A.V. Club)

Best of the Year Genre-Specific Book Lists

• The Best Graphic Novels of 2019 (The Guardian)

• The Ten Best Children’s Books of 2019 (Smithsonian)

• The Best Fiction Books of 2019 (The Christian Science Monitor)

• The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 (The Christian Science Monitor)

• Electric Lit’s 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2019 (Electric Literature)

Book Gift Lists

• The 18 Best Books to Gift, According to Best-Selling Female Authors (Glamour)

2020 Book Lists

• The 10 Most Anticipated Books of 2020, According to Independent Bookstores (Forbes)

Best of the Rest

• 5 Poetry Collections by Women in Translation (Book Riot)