“What are the best Fiction books released in 2019?” We looked at 436 of the top Fiction books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 40 books, all appearing on 4 or more “Best Fiction” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 375+ titles, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
Our other Best Of 2019 Articles:
Our Other Years: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
All books appearing on 2 or more lists have also been added to a Bookshop list as well.
Happy Scrolling!
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FINALIST FOR BEST FICTION AND BEST DEBUT • BOOKBROWE’S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A Washington Post 10 Books to Read
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“From New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a sharp, funny, and emotionally powerful novel about a family reuniting at the deathbed of its patriarch. In reckoning with his secret past, can they rebuild and begin anew?”–
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The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl “We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly d
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Celestial Bodies is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has
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A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of a world-famous 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer–and the secret reasons behind their dramatic break up. Daisy Jones is a beautiful, broken girl growing up in L.A. with rich parents who barely kno
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A stunning debut from an acclaimed travel writer, Disappearing Earth is about two sisters who go missing on the remote volcanic peninsula of Kamchatka. Clues to the crime lie in the lives – and stories of violence and loss – of twelve women in the girls’ r
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A thrilling debut novel for fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng about how far we’ll go to protect our families—and our deepest secrets My husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn’t even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first . . .
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From Jennifer Weiner, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Who Do You Love and In Her Shoes comes a smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters’ lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places—and be true to th
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NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY WOMAN’S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, AND BOOK RIOT! “[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking.” —Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You Bridget Jones’s Diary meets A
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“Like Big Little Lies with standardized testing, this addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read.” – Meg Wolitzer Smart a
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At a family wedding, the four Sorenson sisters polka-dot the green lawn in their summer pastels, with varying shades of hair and varying degrees of unease. Their long-infatuated parents watch on with a combination of love and concern. Sixteen years later,
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Molly is exhausted, anxious, losing her grip on reality. Her husband is away and she is running between her children and her job, where things are unravelling. She’s a paleobotanist, working at a fossil quarry, and has recently unearthed artefacts that def
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‘DEVASTATING’ Marlon James, ‘A MODERN CLASSIC’ Andrew Sean Greer, ‘INCREDIBLE’ Lemn Sissay, ‘BRILLIANT’ Salman Rushdie, ‘MAGNIFICIENT’ Aminatta Forna, ‘EPIC’ Mary Morris, ‘WONDERFUL’ Laila Lalami, ‘POWERFUL’ Cosmopolitan, ‘REMARKABLE’ New York Times ETHIOP
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A searing debut novel that explores community, identity and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska In Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel, The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the
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From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away comes a stunning new novel about courage, hope, and learning to love against all odds. Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, sh
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WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION “Electrifying” (People) • “Masterly” (The Guardian) • “Dramatic and memorable” (The New Yorker) • “Magic” (TIME) • “Ingenious” (The Financial Times) • “A gonzo literary performance” (Entertainment Weekly)
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‘Profoundly moving. An astonishing book, a true work of art’ Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers ‘Heart-wrenching, fearless, and unlike anything you’ve ever read’ Esquire ‘I sit here shaken and, I think, changed by this work’ Katherine B
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“A beautiful novel, bursting at the seams with empathy.” —Elle A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marria
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An utterly original novel, longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize in which one woman navigates, through compelling inner monologue, the tension and disquiet of contemporary America.
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You don’t always get to start your life over. Sometimes, life starts itself over for you. ‘Charming, hopeful, and gently romantic . . . Evvie Drake is great company.’ Rainbow Rowell One morning, Eveleth ‘Evvie’ Drake got up, packed her suitcase, and got re
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***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER This is Britain as you’ve never seen it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl Wom
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife returns with “a bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West” (Entertainment Weekly). In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordi
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Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England’s mysterious past and its confounding present. It belongs to Mad Pete, the grizzled artist.
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“A deft and dark Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects–ribbons,
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From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant—at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of
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NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * VULTURE * BUZZFEED * BOSTON GLOBE * AV CLUB’s * NYLON * MEDIUM * THE MILLIONS * HUFFINGTON POST * THE RUMPUS * LIT HUB * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * THE WEEK * AM New York “This amazing, sad
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from Sally Rooney, the author of Conversations with Friends and “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtne
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And now Olive has indeed returned, as indomitable as ever, navigating her next decade and the changes — sometimes welcome, sometimes not — in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely confident in her second marriage, in an evolving relationship with her so
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‘To the extent that we can speak of a future at present, I think the future of the novel is here’ Sally Rooney ‘An education in the sympathetic imagination, a deep and bracing intellectual challenge, a powerful political statement. . . This is a novel to c
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FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The New York Times Bestseller “A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made.” –Neil Gaiman “Gripping, action-packed….The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New
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Finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, and autono
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“Dr. Toby Fleishman wakes up each morning surrounded by women. Women who are self-actualized and independent and know what they want–and, against all odds, what they want is Toby. Who knew what kind of life awaited him once he finally extracted himself fr
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An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary African-American family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. Two families from different social
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A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! From the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, comes Ann Patchett’s most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, has become a modern classic—and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The
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OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. “This potent book about America’s most disgraceful
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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish re
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Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction! An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal! Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, O
| # | Books | Authors | Lists |
| 41 | 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World | Elif Shafak | Booklist 3 |
| Five Books | |||
| NPR | |||
| 42 | A Particular Kind of Black Man | Tope Folarin | Booklist |
| Debutiful | |||
| NPR | |||
| 43 | Ayesha At Last | Uzma Jalaluddin | King County Library System |
| NPR | |||
| Christian Science Monitor | |||
| 44 | Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming | László Krasznahorkai | City of Asylum Bookstore |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| Entropy | |||
| 45 | Bowlaway: A Novel | Elizabeth McCracken | Kirkus Reviews |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| NPR | |||
| 46 | Exhalation | Ted Chiang | King County Library System |
| Kirkus Reviews | |||
| Entropy | |||
| 47 | Grand Union | Zadie Smith | Guardian |
| Kirkus Reviews | |||
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| 48 | In West Mills | De’Shawn Charles Winslow | Debutiful |
| Kirkus Reviews | |||
| Library Journal 2 | |||
| 49 | On the Come up | Angie Thomas | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| Goodreads 3 | |||
| Readings | |||
| 50 | Opposite of Always | Justin A. Reynolds | Booklist 2 |
| Chicago Public Library 2 | |||
| Goodreads 3 | |||
| 51 | Out of Darkness, Shining Light | Petina Gappah | Kirkus Reviews |
| Christian Science Monitor | |||
| NPR | |||
| 52 | Quichotte | Salman Rushdie | Five Books |
| Amazon | |||
| NPR | |||
| 53 | Red, White & Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston | Goodreads |
| King County Library System | |||
| Kirkus Reviews | |||
| 54 | Space Invaders | Nona Fernández | Library Journal 3 |
| Entropy | |||
| NPR | |||
| 55 | Spring | Ali Smith | Guardian |
| Kirkus Reviews | |||
| NPR | |||
| 56 | Stalingrad | City of Asylum Bookstore | |
| Guardian | |||
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| 57 | The bookish life of Nina Hill | Abbi Waxman | Goodreads 2 |
| Iowa City Public Library | |||
| Iowa City Public Library | |||
| 58 | The Bride Test | Helen Hoang | Kirkus Reviews |
| SheReads | |||
| NPR | |||
| 59 | The Dreamers | Karen Thompson Walker | Powell’s |
| Iowa City Public Library | |||
| Iowa City Public Library | |||
| 60 | The Far Field | Madhuri Vijay | Booklist |
| Chicago Review of Books | |||
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| 61 | The Farm | Joanne Ramos | Booklist |
| Iowa City Public Library | |||
| Iowa City Public Library | |||
| 62 | The Girl He Used to Know | Tracey Garvis Graves | Iowa City Public Library |
| SheReads | |||
| Iowa City Public Library | |||
| 63 | The Lager Queen Of Minnesota: A Novel | J. Ryan Stradal | Iowa City Public Library |
| Iowa City Public Library | |||
| NPR | |||
| 64 | The Man Who Saw Everything | Deborah Levy | Publishers Weekly |
| Readings 2 | |||
| Powell’s | |||
| 65 | The Remainder | Alia Trabucco Zerán | Five Books 2 |
| Kirkus Reviews | |||
| Entropy | |||
| 66 | The World Doesn’t Require You | Rion Amilcar Scott | Kirkus Reviews |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| Entropy | |||
| 67 | A lush and seething hell : two tales of cosmic horror | John Hornor Jacobs | Iowa City Public Library |
| Iowa City Public Library | |||
| 68 | All City | Alex DiFrancesco | Largehearted Boy |
| Entropy | |||
| 69 | American Spy | Lauren Wilkinson | Debutiful |
| NPR | |||
| 70 | An Orchestra of Minorities | Chigozie Obioma | Five Books |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| 71 | Bangkok Wakes to Rain | Pitchaya Sudbanthad | Debutiful |
| Kirkus Reviews | |||
| 72 | Birthday | Meredith Russo | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| Goodreads 3 | |||
| 73 | Black Light | Kimberly King Parsons | Debutiful |
| Powell’s | |||
| 74 | Bloomland | John Englehardt | Debutiful |
| Kirkus Reviews | |||
| 75 | Boy Swallows Universe | Trent Dalton | Goodreads |
| Library Journal | |||
| 76 | Call your daughter home | Deb Spera | Iowa City Public Library |
| Iowa City Public Library | |||
| 77 | Cantoras: A Novel | Carolina De Robertis | Kirkus Reviews |
| NPR | |||
| 78 | City of Girls | Elizabeth Gilbert | SheReads |
| Amazon | |||
| 79 | Crossing | Pajtim Statovci | Guardian |
| Library Journal 3 | |||
| 80 | Death Is Hard Work | Khaled Khalifa | Guardian |
| Library Journal 3 | |||
| 81 | Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2) | Vogue | |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 82 | For Black Girls Like Me | Booklist 2 | |
| Chicago Public Library | |||
| 83 | Frankissstein | Jeanette Winterson | Publishers Weekly |
| Library Journal | |||
| 84 | Frankly in Love (Frankly in Love, #1) | David Yoon | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| Goodreads 3 | |||
| 85 | Ghost Wall | Sarah Moss | Publishers Weekly |
| Entropy | |||
| 86 | Hard Mouth | Amanda Goldblatt | Chicago Review of Books |
| Debutiful | |||
| 87 | I Wish You All The Best | Mason Deaver | Goodreads 3 |
| NPR | |||
| 88 | Juliet the Maniac | Juliet Escoria | Entropy |
| NPR | |||
| 89 | Lot: Stories | Bryan Washington | Debutiful |
| NPR | |||
| 90 | Lovely War | Julie Berry | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| Goodreads 3 | |||
| 91 | Mars | Asja Bakić | Publishers Weekly |
| Entropy | |||
| 92 | Mostly Dead Things | Kristen Arnett | Chicago Review of Books |
| Entropy | |||
| 93 | Naamah | Sarah Blake | Booklist 3 |
| Entropy | |||
| 94 | New Kid | Chicago Public Library | |
| Booklist 3 | |||
| 95 | Night Boat to Tangier | Kevin Barry | Library Journal |
| NPR | |||
| 96 | Patsy: A Novel | Nicole Dennis-Benn | Kirkus Reviews |
| NPR | |||
| 97 | Rabbits For Food | Binnie Kirshenbaum | Kirkus Reviews |
| NPR | |||
| 98 | Tell me everything : a novel | Cambria Brockman | Iowa City Public Library |
| Iowa City Public Library | |||
| 99 | Territory of Light | Yuko Tsushima | Kirkus Reviews |
| Entropy | |||
| 100 | The Atlas of Reds and Blues | Devi S. Laskar | Booklist |
| Chicago Review of Books | |||
| 101 | The Best at It | Booklist 2 | |
| Chicago Public Library | |||
| 102 | The Dearly Beloved | Cara Wall | Library Journal 2 |
| Powell’s | |||
| 103 | The Dishwasher | Stéphane Larue | City of Asylum Bookstore |
| CBC | |||
| 104 | The Factory | Publishers Weekly | |
| Powell’s | |||
| 105 | The Grammarians: A Novel | Cathleen Schine | Kirkus Reviews |
| NPR | |||
| 106 | The Heavens | Sandra Newman | Guardian |
| Kirkus Reviews | |||
| 107 | The Island of Sea Women | Lisa See | King County Library System |
| Christian Science Monitor | |||
| 108 | The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics | Olivia Waite | King County Library System |
| Kirkus Reviews | |||
| 109 | The Last True Poets of the Sea | Julia Drake | Booklist 2 |
| Chicago Public Library 2 | |||
| 110 | The New Me | Halle Butler | NPR |
| Entropy | |||
| 111 | The Old Drift | Namwali Serpell | Booklist 3 |
| Kirkus Reviews | |||
| 112 | The Paragon Hotel | Lyndsay Faye | Iowa City Public Library |
| Iowa City Public Library | |||
| 113 | The Reckless Oath We Made | Goodreads 2 | |
| Powell’s | |||
| 114 | The Starless Sea | Powell’s | |
| Amazon | |||
| 115 | The Vanishing Stair | Maureen Johnson | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| Goodreads 3 | |||
| 116 | The World That We Knew | Alice Hoffman | Christian Science Monitor |
| Amazon | |||
| 117 | This is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone | King County Library System |
| CBC | |||
| 118 | Tinfoil butterfly | Rachel Eve Moulton | Iowa City Public Library |
| Iowa City Public Library | |||
| 119 | Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky | Booklist 2 | |
| Chicago Public Library | |||
| 120 | We Hunt the Flame | Booklist 2 | |
| Goodreads | |||
| 121 | When All Is Said | Goodreads | |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 122 | Will and Testament | Guardian | |
| City of Asylum Bookstore | |||
| 123 | With The Fire On High | Elizabeth Acevedo | Goodreads 3 |
| NPR | |||
| 124 | Your House Will Pay | Steph Cha | Kirkus Reviews |
| Largehearted Boy | |||
| 125 | 26 Knots | Bindu Suresh | CBC |
| 126 | A BOY AND HIS DOG AT THE END OF THE WORLD | C.A. Fletcher | Kirkus Reviews |
| 127 | A Brightness Long Ago | Guy Gavriel Kay | CBC |
| 128 | A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers | Chicago Public Library | |
| 129 | A Fist or a Heart | Kristín Eiríksdóttir | Library Journal 3 |
| 130 | A Girl Goes into the Forest | Peg Alford Pursell | Entropy |
| 131 | A GIRL RETURNED | Donatella Di Pietrantonio | Kirkus Reviews |
| 132 | A Long Way from Home: A novel | Peter Carey | Five Books 3 |
| 133 | A Novel | Ruta Sepetys | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 134 | A Place to Belong | Chicago Public Library | |
| 135 | A Prayer for Travelers | Ruchika Tomar | Debutiful |
| 136 | A PRINCE ON PAPER | Alyssa Cole | Kirkus Reviews |
| 137 | A Tale Told in Ten Blocks | Chicago Public Library | |
| 138 | After the Flood | Booklist | |
| 139 | After the Party | Cressida Connolly | Five Books 3 |
| 140 | Again, but Better | Goodreads 3 | |
| 141 | Akin | Emma Donoghue | Christian Science Monitor |
| 142 | All the Greys on Greene Street | Chicago Public Library | |
| 143 | American Pop: A Novel | Snowden Wright | NPR |
| 144 | American Royals (American Royals, #1) | Goodreads 3 | |
| 145 | An American Marriage | Guardian | |
| 146 | Angel Mage | Garth Nix | Readings |
| 147 | ar Run | Mesha Maren | Chicago Review of Books |
| 148 | Aurora Rising | Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff | Readings |
| 149 | Autopsy of a Boring Wife | Marie-Renée Lavoie | CBC |
| 150 | BAD AXE COUNTY | John Galligan | Kirkus Reviews |
| 151 | Barely Missing Everything | Matt Méndez | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 152 | Berta Isla | Javier Marías | Library Journal 3 |
| 153 | Best Friends | Shannon Hale | NPR |
| 154 | Big Sky | Kate Atkinson | King County Library System |
| 155 | Black Card: A Novel | Chris L. Terry | NPR |
| 156 | Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America | Booklist 3 | |
| 157 | Black Forest | Publishers Weekly | |
| 158 | Black Wings | Sehba Sarwar | Entropy |
| 159 | Blanca & Roja. | Booklist 3 | |
| 160 | BLOOD OF AN EXILE | Brian Naslund | Kirkus Reviews |
| 161 | BRAZEN AND THE BEAST | Sarah MacLean | Kirkus Reviews |
| 162 | Butterfly Yellow | Thanhha Lai | NPR |
| 163 | Call Down the Hawk | Maggie Stiefvater | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 164 | CALM SEA AND PROSPEROUS VOYAGE | Bette Howland | Kirkus Reviews |
| 165 | Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4) | Goodreads 3 | |
| 166 | Chances Are … | Richard Russo | Christian Science Monitor |
| 167 | Chasing Painted Horses | Drew Hayden Taylor | CBC |
| 168 | China Dream | Ma Jian | Library Journal 3 |
| 169 | Convenience Store Woman | Powell’s | |
| 170 | Copenhagen Trilogy | Guardian | |
| 171 | Crow Winter | Karen McBride | CBC |
| 172 | Days by Moonlight | André Alexis | CBC |
| 173 | Dead Astronauts | Jeff Vandermeer | San Diego Entertainer |
| 174 | Dear Abigail and Other Stories | Stephen Dixon | Entropy |
| 175 | Dear Haiti, Love Alaine | Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite | NPR |
| 176 | DECEPTION COVE | Owen Laukkanen | Kirkus Reviews |
| 177 | Deep River | Karl Marlantes | King County Library System |
| 178 | Dig | A. S. King | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 179 | Dominicana: A Novel | City of Asylum Bookstore | |
| 180 | Dragon Pearl | Chicago Public Library | |
| 181 | Driving in Cars with Homeless Men | Kate Wisel | Entropy |
| 182 | EARLY RISER | Jasper Fforde | Kirkus Reviews |
| 183 | Empire of Wild | Cherie Dimaline | CBC |
| 184 | Every Little Piece of Me | Amy Jones | CBC |
| 185 | Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions | Sheila O’Connor | Entropy |
| 186 | Exposed | Publishers Weekly | |
| 187 | FALL; OR, DODGE IN HELL | Neal Stephenson | Kirkus Reviews |
| 188 | Family of Origin | CJ Hauser | Largehearted Boy |
| 189 | FEAST YOUR EYES | Myla Goldberg | Kirkus Reviews |
| 190 | Finding Langston. | Booklist 3 | |
| 191 | Five Feet Apart | Goodreads 3 | |
| 192 | Five Wives | Joan Thomas | CBC |
| 193 | Flights | Powell’s | |
| 194 | Flowers of Mold & Other Stories | Ha Seong-nan | Library Journal 3 |
| 195 | FOREVER WOLF | Maria Vale | Kirkus Reviews |
| 196 | From the Shadows | Publishers Weekly | |
| 197 | Front Desk. | Booklist 3 | |
| 198 | Frying Plantain | Zalika Reid-Benta | CBC |
| 199 | FULL THROTTLE | Joe Hill | Kirkus Reviews |
| 200 | Fumbled | Alexa Martin | NPR |
| 201 | Genesis Begins Again | Chicago Public Library | |
| 202 | GET A LIFE, CHLOE BROWN | Talia Hibbert | Kirkus Reviews |
| 203 | Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock | Hillary Leftwich | Entropy |
| 204 | Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) | Goodreads | |
| 205 | GINGERBREAD | Helen Oyeyemi | Kirkus Reviews |
| 206 | Girls on the Verge | Sharon Biggs Waller | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 207 | Giver of Stars | Jojo Moyes | Library Journal 2 |
| 208 | Good Enough | Chicago Public Library | |
| 209 | GOOD GIRL, BAD GIRL | Michael Robotham | Kirkus Reviews |
| 210 | Grace After Henry | Eithne Shortall | Library Journal 2 |
| 211 | Greenwood | Michael Christie | CBC |
| 212 | Guestbook: Ghost Stories | Leanne Shapton | CBC |
| 213 | Guts | Raina Telgemeier | NPR |
| 214 | HEAVEN, MY HOME | Attica Locke | Kirkus Reviews |
| 215 | HENRY, HIMSELF | Stewart O’Nan | Kirkus Reviews |
| 216 | Here and Now and Then | Mike Chen | Entropy |
| 217 | Hollow Kingdom | Kira Jane Buxton | King County Library System |
| 218 | Holly Banks Full of Angst | Julie Valerie | SheReads |
| 219 | House of Salt and Sorrows | Goodreads | |
| 220 | House of Stone | Novuyo Rosa Tshuma | Chicago Review of Books |
| 221 | How High the Moon | Chicago Public Library | |
| 222 | How It Feels to Float | Helena Fox | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 223 | HOW RORY THORNE DESTROYED THE MULTIVERSE | K. Eason | Kirkus Reviews |
| 224 | HOW TO LOVE A DUKE IN TEN DAYS | Kerrigan Byrne | Kirkus Reviews |
| 225 | How We Fight For Our Lives | Saeed Jones | Debutiful |
| 226 | I Am Still Alive | Kate Alice Marshall | Readings |
| 227 | I Can Make This Promise | Chicago Public Library | |
| 228 | I Hotel | Entropy | |
| 229 | I’m Fine and Neither Are You | Camille Pagan | SheReads |
| 230 | I’m From Nowhere | Lindsay Lerman | Entropy |
| 231 | Indian No More | Chicago Public Library | |
| 232 | Internment | Goodreads 3 | |
| 233 | Invisible As Air | Zoe Fishman | SheReads |
| 234 | It Sounded Better in My Head | Nina Kenwood | Readings |
| 235 | It Would Be Night In Caracas | Karina Sainz Borgo | NPR |
| 236 | Jack (Not Jackie). | Booklist 3 | |
| 237 | King of Joy | Richard Chiem | Entropy |
| 238 | KNIFE | Jo Nesbø | Kirkus Reviews |
| 239 | LADY IN THE LAKE | Laura Lippman | Kirkus Reviews |
| 240 | Last of Her Name | Mimi Lok | Entropy |
| 241 | Light It up | Kekla Magoon | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 242 | Like A Love Story | Abdi Nazemian | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 243 | Like: Poems | Powell’s | |
| 244 | Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls | T Kira Madden | Debutiful |
| 245 | Look Both Ways | Chicago Public Library | |
| 246 | LOOK HOW HAPPY I’M MAKING YOU | Polly Rosenwaike | Kirkus Reviews |
| 247 | Looker | Vogue | |
| 248 | Love From A to Z | Goodreads 3 | |
| 249 | Machine | Susan Steinberg | Entropy |
| 250 | MAGGIE BROWN & OTHERS | Peter Orner | Kirkus Reviews |
| 251 | Malamander | Booklist 2 | |
| 252 | Marilou Is Everywhere: A Novel | Sarah Elaine Smith | NPR |
| 253 | MIDDLEGAME | Seanan McGuire | Kirkus Reviews |
| 254 | Mitz: The Marmoset Of Bloomsbury | Sigrid Nunez | NPR |
| 255 | Moccasin Square Gardens | Richard Van Camp | CBC |
| 256 | Monuments | Will Kostakis | Readings |
| 257 | Morelia | Renee Gladman | Entropy |
| 258 | Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing | René Daumal | Entropy |
| 259 | Mouthful of Birds | Publishers Weekly | |
| 260 | MURMUR | Will Eaves | Kirkus Reviews |
| 261 | Muslim: A Novel | Zahia Rahmani | Entropy |
| 262 | My Sister, the Serial Killer | Goodreads | |
| 263 | Nickel Boys | Powell’s | |
| 264 | NIGHT SCHOOL | Zsófia Bán | Kirkus Reviews |
| 265 | NIGHTCHASER | Amanda Bouchet | Kirkus Reviews |
| 266 | Not If I Can Help It | Chicago Public Library | |
| 267 | Now We Shall Be Entirely Free | Andrew Miller | Five Books 3 |
| 268 | Odd One Out. | Booklist 3 | |
| 269 | On Swift Horses | Shannon Pufahl | Debutiful |
| 270 | One Night at the Lake | Bethany Chase | SheReads |
| 271 | Optic Nerve | Publishers Weekly | |
| 272 | Or, After the Hole | Andrew Smith | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 273 | Orange for the Sunsets | Chicago Public Library | |
| 274 | ORANGE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES | Karen Russell | Kirkus Reviews |
| 275 | Other Words for Home | Chicago Public Library | |
| 276 | Our Castle | Chicago Public Library | |
| 277 | OVAL | Elvia Wilk | Kirkus Reviews |
| 278 | Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl | Andrea Lawlor | Entropy |
| 279 | Permanent Record | Mary H.K. Choi | NPR |
| 280 | Permission | Saskia Vogel | Largehearted Boy |
| 281 | Pet | Akwaeke Emezi | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 282 | PHANTOMS | Christian Kiefer | Kirkus Reviews |
| 283 | Pie in the Sky | Chicago Public Library | |
| 284 | Promise Me Happy | Robert Newton | Readings |
| 285 | Radicalized | Cory Doctorow | CBC |
| 286 | Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee | Jeff Zentner | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 287 | Recursion | Blake Crouch | King County Library System |
| 288 | Redwood and Ponytail | Chicago Public Library | |
| 289 | RIGHT AFTER THE WEATHER | Carol Anshaw | Kirkus Reviews |
| 290 | Rules for Visiting | Jessica Francis Kane | Readings 2 |
| 291 | RUSTY BROWN | Chris Ware | Kirkus Reviews |
| 292 | SABRINA & CORINA | Kali Fajardo-Anstine | Kirkus Reviews |
| 293 | Sabrina and Corina | Kali Farjado-Astine | Debutiful |
| 294 | Sadie | Courtney Summers | Readings |
| 295 | Sal and Gabi Break the Universe | Chicago Public Library | |
| 296 | Salt Slow | Guardian | |
| 297 | Saudade | Suneeta Peres de Costa | Entropy |
| 298 | SAVE ME FROM DANGEROUS MEN | S.A. Lelchuk | Kirkus Reviews |
| 299 | Serious Moonlight | Goodreads 3 | |
| 300 | Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove, #1) | Goodreads | |
| 301 | SING TO IT | Amy Hempel | Kirkus Reviews |
| 302 | Sleepless Night | Margriet de Moor | Library Journal 3 |
| 303 | Song for A Whale | Chicago Public Library | |
| 304 | Song for the Unraveling of the World | Brian Evenson | Entropy |
| 305 | Spider Love Songs | Nancy Au | Entropy |
| 306 | Star | Yukio Mishima | Entropy |
| 307 | Stay Up with Hugo Best | Vogue | |
| 308 | STEEL CROW SAGA | Paul Krueger | Kirkus Reviews |
| 309 | Strange Birds | Chicago Public Library | |
| 310 | Strangers and Cousins | Leah Hager Cohen | Christian Science Monitor |
| 311 | Such a Fun Age | Kiley Reid | Debutiful |
| 312 | Sudden Traveller | Guardian | |
| 313 | Sugar Run | Mesha Maren | Debutiful |
| 314 | Sunshine on an Open Tomb | Tim Kinsella | Entropy |
| 315 | SUPPER CLUB | Lara Williams | Kirkus Reviews |
| 316 | Sweet Home | Guardian | |
| 317 | Symphony No. 3 | Chris Eaton | Largehearted Boy |
| 318 | Tarnished Are the Stars | Rosiee Thor | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 319 | The Affairs of the Falcons | Melissa Rivero | Debutiful |
| 320 | The Age of Light | Booklist | |
| 321 | The Alley of Fireflies and Other Stories | Raymond Roussel | Entropy |
| 322 | The Astonishing Color of After. | Booklist 3 | |
| 323 | The Beadworkers | Powell’s | |
| 324 | The Beast Player | Nahoko Uehashi | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 325 | The Besieged City | Clarice Lispector | Entropy |
| 326 | The Big Red Herring | Andrew Farkas | Entropy |
| 327 | The Birds, The Bees, And You And Me | Olivia Hinebaugh | NPR |
| 328 | THE BITTERROOTS | C.J. Box | Kirkus Reviews |
| 329 | The Book of X | Sarah Rose Etter | Entropy |
| 330 | The Border: A Novel | Don Winslow | NPR |
| 331 | The Bridge Home | Chicago Public Library | |
| 332 | THE CHAIN | Adrian McKinty | Kirkus Reviews |
| 333 | THE CHESTNUT MAN | Søren Sveistrup | Kirkus Reviews |
| 334 | The Complete Gary Lutz | Gary Lutz | Entropy |
| 335 | The Confessions of Frannie Langton | Guardian | |
| 336 | The Dead Queens Club | Hannah Capin | NPR |
| 337 | The Editor | Steven Rowley | NPR |
| 338 | The Eighth Life (For Brilka) | Nino Haratischvili | Readings 2 |
| 339 | THE FLIGHT PORTFOLIO | Julie Orringer | Kirkus Reviews |
| 340 | The Fountains of Silence | Goodreads 3 | |
| 341 | THE FOX AND DR. SHIMAMURA | Christine Wunnicke | Kirkus Reviews |
| 342 | THE FRAGILITY OF BODIES | Sergio Olguín | Kirkus Reviews |
| 343 | The Friend | Sigrid Nunez | Readings 2 |
| 344 | The Friend Zone | Goodreads | |
| 345 | The Gilded Wolves | Roshani Chokshi | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 346 | The Giver of Stars | JoJo Moyes | Christian Science Monitor |
| 347 | The Golden State | Powell’s | |
| 348 | The Grace Year | Goodreads 3 | |
| 349 | The Hanky of Pippin’s Daughter | Rosmarie Waldrop | Entropy |
| 350 | The Hard Tomorrow | Eleanor Davis | NPR |
| 351 | The Innocents | Michael Crummey | CBC |
| 352 | The Institute | Stephen King | King County Library System |
| 353 | THE IRON DRAGON’S MOTHER | Michael Swanwick | Kirkus Reviews |
| 354 | THE KINGDOM OF COPPER | S.A. Chakraborty | Kirkus Reviews |
| 355 | The Last Romantics | Goodreads 2 | |
| 356 | THE LESSON | Cadwell Turnbull | Kirkus Reviews |
| 357 | The Light Years | Chris Rush | Debutiful |
| 358 | The Line Tender | Booklist 2 | |
| 359 | The Long Take | Robin Robertson | Five Books 3 |
| 360 | THE LOST MAN | Jane Harper | Kirkus Reviews |
| 361 | The Maze of Transparencies | Karen An-hwei Lee | Entropy |
| 362 | The Music of What Happens | Bill Konigsberg | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 363 | The Night Tiger | Booklist 3 | |
| 364 | The Other Half of Happy | Booklist 2 | |
| 365 | The Overdue Life of Amy Byler | Goodreads 2 | |
| 366 | The Oysterville Sewing Circle | Susan Wiggs | Library Journal 2 |
| 367 | The Paper Wasp | Lauren Acampora | Chicago Review of Books |
| 368 | The Parade: A Novel | Dave Eggers | NPR |
| 369 | The Parisian | Isabella Hammad | Christian Science Monitor |
| 370 | The Patchwork Bike. | Booklist 3 | |
| 371 | The Pine Islands | Jen Calleja & Marion Poschmann | Five Books 2 |
| 372 | The Porpoise | Guardian | |
| 373 | The Princess and the Fangirl (Once Upon a Con, #2) | Goodreads 3 | |
| 374 | THE PROMISE | Silvina Ocampo | Kirkus Reviews |
| 375 | The Rest of the Story | Goodreads 3 | |
| 376 | The Revisionaries | A. R. Moxon | Chicago Review of Books |
| 377 | The Revolution of Birdie Randolph | Brandy Colbert | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 378 | THE RIVER | Peter Heller | Kirkus Reviews |
| 379 | THE RUIN OF KINGS | Jenn Lyons | Kirkus Reviews |
| 380 | The Second Sleep | Guardian | |
| 381 | The Shape of the Ruins | Juan Gabriel Vásquez | Five Books 2 |
| 382 | The Silence Between Us | Alison Gervais | NPR |
| 383 | The Silent Patient | Goodreads | |
| 384 | The Skin Is the Elastic Covering that Encases the Entire Body | Bjørn Rasmussen | Entropy |
| 385 | The Snakes | Guardian | |
| 386 | The Stationery Shop | Marjan Kamali | NPR |
| 387 | THE STRANGER INSIDE | Lisa Unger | Kirkus Reviews |
| 388 | The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling | Wai Chim | Readings |
| 389 | The Sweetest Fruits | Publishers Weekly | |
| 390 | The Ten Thousand Doors of January | Goodreads | |
| 391 | The Tenth Muse | Catherine Chung | Largehearted Boy |
| 392 | The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep | H.G. Parry | Christian Science Monitor |
| 393 | The Usual Suspects | Chicago Public Library | |
| 394 | The Volunteer | Salvatore Scibona | Largehearted Boy |
| 395 | The Wagers | Sean Michaels | CBC |
| 396 | THE WALL | John Lanchester | Kirkus Reviews |
| 397 | THE WAREHOUSE | Rob Hart | Kirkus Reviews |
| 398 | The Way Cities Feel To Us Now | Nathaniel Kennon Perkins | Entropy |
| 399 | The Western Wind: A Novel | Samantha Harvey | Five Books 3 |
| 400 | The White Book | Han Kang | Entropy |
| 401 | The White Death: An Illusion | Gabriel Urza | Entropy |
| 402 | The Years | Annie Ernaux | Five Books 2 |
| 403 | The Yellow House | Sarah M. Broom | Debutiful |
| 404 | The Youth of God | Hassan Ghedi Santur | CBC |
| 405 | There Has to Be a Knife | Adnan Khan | CBC |
| 406 | There You Are | Mathea Morais | Debutiful |
| 407 | Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All | Laura Ruby | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 408 | Thirteen Months of Sunrise | City of Asylum Bookstore | |
| 409 | This is How We Change the Ending | Vikki Wakefield | Readings |
| 410 | This Time Will Be Different | Misa Sugiura | Chicago Public Library 2 |
| 411 | This Was Our Pact | Chicago Public Library | |
| 412 | Tight | Torrey Maldonado | NPR |
| 413 | To Calais, in Ordinary Time | Guardian | |
| 414 | To Keep the Sun Alive | Rabeah Ghaffari | Chicago Review of Books |
| 415 | Today We Go Home | Kelli Estes | Library Journal 2 |
| 416 | Travelers | City of Asylum Bookstore | |
| 417 | Triangulum: A Novel | Masande Ntshanga | Entropy |
| 418 | TUESDAY MOONEY TALKS TO GHOSTS | Kate Racculia | Kirkus Reviews |
| 419 | Two Can Keep a Secret | Goodreads 3 | |
| 420 | Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens | Booklist 3 | |
| 421 | Voyage, Orestes! | Samuel R Delaney | Entropy |
| 422 | WANDERERS | Chuck Wendig | Kirkus Reviews |
| 423 | Warlight | Michael Ondaatje | Five Books 3 |
| 424 | We Cast a Shadow | Maurice Carlos Ruffin | Largehearted Boy |
| 425 | We Went To The Woods: A Novel | Caite Dolan-Leach | NPR |
| 426 | What’s on the Menu? | Chase Griffin | Entropy |
| 427 | When the Plums Are Ripe | Patrice Nganang | Library Journal 3 |
| 428 | Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens | Readings 2 |
| 429 | Where the Forest Meets the Stars | Goodreads 2 | |
| 430 | WHERE WE COME FROM | Oscar Cásares | Kirkus Reviews |
| 431 | Wilder Girls | Booklist 2 | |
| 432 | Worry | Jessica Westhead | CBC |
| 433 | WYOMING | JP Gritton | Kirkus Reviews |
| 434 | You Know You Want This | Guardian | |
| 435 | You Will Be Safe Here | Damian Barr | NPR |
| 436 | Your Duck Is My Duck | Guardian |
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