Book Lists for Nov. 29-Dec. 5, 2019

Get buried in end-of-the-year book lists

The end-of-the-year book lists are flying at us. I hope you’re not overwhelmed by the list below. Believe it or not, what you see in this email is only a fraction of the lists I came across over the past week. 😬

Real quick, I know many of you are writers. You may be interested in a weekly email I publish that curates writing tips and advice. You can check it out and subscribe here.

OK, on to the book lists! 👇👇👇

This roundup of book lists is available to all Bidwell Hollow subscribers. Book list emails will remain free. But the biweekly writer stories will become only for paying subscribers on Feb. 10, 2020. Subscribe before then to make sure you don’t miss out. Your credit card won’t be charged until Feb. 10. Or, keep your current free subscription, and you’ll continue to receive book list emails each Friday.

Nothing humbles me more than when someone decides to pay for my work. Thanks to all who’ve already subscribed to Bidwell Hollow. I’m thrilled to make that commitment worth your while. (And even if you haven’t, you’re still great.)

REMINDER: You can still subscribe here for either $5 a month or $50 a year:

Book Lists for December

• Get Lost In Our Favorite New Books of December (Refinery29)

• 9 Books to Watch for in December (The New York Times)

• 10 New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Check Out this December (Polygon)

• 18 New, Must-Read Books Coming Out in December (Popsugar)

• 9 Books You Should Read in December (CrimeReads)

Best of the Year Book Lists

• The Best Books of 2019 (InsideHook)

• Our 50 Favorite Books of the Year (Literary Hub)

• Best Books of 2019 (The Guardian)

• The 10 Best Books of 2019 (Slate)

• Top Ten Books of 2019 (The Harvard Crimson)

• The Best Books of 2019 (Chicago Tribune)

• Maureen Corrigan’s Favorite Books of 2019 (NPR)

• The Best Books of 2019 (The New Yorker)

• Eight 2019 Books That Deserved the Hype…and Five That Didn’t (Sarah’s Book Shelves)

• Best 10 Books Read But Not Necessarily Written in 2019 (A Month of Strong Opinions)

• Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 (The New York Times)

• The Best Books of 2019 (GQ)

• Best of 2019: Books (KCRW)

• The 44 Best-Selling Books of 2019 That You Don’t Want to Miss (Good Housekeeping)

Best of the Year Genre-Specific Book Lists

• Best Poetry of 2019 (The Guardian)

• The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 (The New York Times)

• 55 of the Best Queer Books of 2019 (Autostraddle)

Best of the Decade Book Lists

• Here Are the Best Books of the Decade (Essence)

• My Seven Favorite Books of the Decade (The Cornell Daily Sun)

• 10 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Must-Reads from the 2010s (Literary Hub)

Book Gift Lists

• The 10 Best Books of 2019 for the Bibliophiles on Your List (The Seattle Times)

• 8 Novels to Give as Holiday Gifts this Year (Books on GIF)

• 25 Books for Every Reader on Your List (Parade)

• 43 Novels and Story Collections for the Reader on Your List (Parnassus Books)

Best of the Rest

• 10 Great Poetry Collections You May Have Missed (Chicago Review of Books)

• 20 Riveting Wilderness Mystery and Suspense Novels (Modern Mrs. Darcy)

• 15 Queer Books You Might Have Missed This Year (BuzzFeed)

• 26 Books on Trees (PBS NewsHour)