Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Favorite Books I Read In 2019.
According to my Goodreads records for 2019, I gave a five-star rating to 63 books in 2019! So how am I supposed to narrow my list down to just ten?
Quick answer: I can’t. So, for this week’s Top 10 Tuesday, I’m sharing my 15 favorite books for 2019! (Review links are included where available — click through if you want to know more about any of these EXCELLENT books…)
- Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Reid Jenkins (review)
- Circe by Madeline Miller (review)
- A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher (review)
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (review)
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal — a re-read, but I loved it all over again, so it belongs on this list! (review)
- Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (review)
- Our War by Craig DiLouie (review)
- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See (review)
- The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne — my final 5-star read of the year! No review yet, but I loved this book!!
- The Salt Path by Raynor Winn (review)
- Today We Go Home by Kelli Estes (review)
- The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman (review)
- Wanderers by Chuck Wendig (review)
- Recursion by Blake Crouch (review)
- The Beka Cooper trilogy by Tamora Pierce (review)
And wait, there’s more! After posting, I realized that I left off another book that was definitely a favorite book of 2019, and I just couldn’t let it go!
16. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (review) — I’m not sure how I missed this amazing book when I put my list together! Whew, I feel better now.
What were your favorite books of 2019? Share your links, and I’ll come check out your top 10!
Daisy Jones and the Six also made my top 2019 list for being the best audiobook. I think I would read any book by Taylor Jenkins Reid in this Historical Fiction interview style. I hope 2020 will be another year full of 5-star reads 🙂
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I hope so too! I’m about to start the only Taylor Jenkins Reid book that I haven’t already read (Evelyn Hugo) — can’t wait!
I hope you like it! I definitely enjoyed Evelyn Hugo but not as much Daisy Jones! Xxx
I love Daisy Jones & The Six!
Such a great book! I’m looking forward to listening to the audiobook in 2020. 🙂
Wonderful list! There are a bunch here that made my list as well. I’m seeing Recursion on so many best of lists, and also A Boy and his Dog. I’m excited to see what 2020 will bring😁
Recursion was so amazing! I can’t wait to see what he writes next!
I have The Hearts Invisible Furies but haven’t read it yet – it looks so good. And I loved Circe! So beautiful 😊 Great list!
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Thank you! I’d had a copy of The Heart’s Invisible Furies for a while before I finally read it — I’m so glad I did! It was such a memorable book. Enjoy!
I definitely need to check out Circe this year. Hope you find lots of favorite in 2020!
Thank you — you too! Happy New Year!
I liked The Calculating Stars a lot, too.
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I can’t wait for the next in the series!
I loved Book Woman! 😍👍
It really was a terrific read, and I felt like it took me someplace completely new to me.
Yes…it was incredibly interesting in so many ways!
Great list and now I have even more books to read! I think I will read The Island of the Sea Women in 2020, for sure. Happy New Year, Lisa!
Oh, I think you’ll love that one! Happy New Year!
Anne of Green Gables was on my list too! I read it just a few months ago and fell in love!
I loved Anne so much! I ended up reading the entire series this year, and I’m sure I’ll want to revisit at least the first book from time to time.
Great list. There are a couple on here I want to read, like Wanderers, Circe, and Our War. The Ten Thousand Doors of January has popped up on a couple lists. I’d like to try it too.
They’re all so good! I hope you give some of these a try! 🙂
I’m so glad to see Recursion on here! It definitely made my list as well. I just recently put a hold on the audiobook version of The Ten Thousand Doors of January so I’m glad to see you loved it as much as you did. 🙂
Ooh, I’ll be interested to hear your reaction to the audiobooks for Ten Thousand Doors! It’s definitely a book I’d want to reread, so maybe audio is the way to go!
I have Daisy Jones and hope to FINALLY read that one soon. A Thousand Doors of January sounds great as well.
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Both are excellent! I hope you enjoy!
Some of these are on my TBR! I’m especially excited for The Salt Path. I haven’t seen a bad review of it yet.
It’s really a beautiful and unusual story. I loved it! Hope you do too.
Daisy Jones, Recursion, and Circe are all on my tbr. Hopefully I can get to them in 2020!
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Good luck! I’m hoping to reread Daisy Jones this year. It’s that good!
Awesome list! I loved daisy jones and circe! Also really want to read boy and his dog at the end of the world and recursion.
They’re all so good!