The Best Books I Read in 2019

I read about 65 books this year. Of those, seven works of fiction stand out in my mind as being particularly great reads. These are the books that stayed with me, made me think back on them long after I’d finished them. They are the books I’m telling my friends about.

Here they are, in no particular order and with no regard to publication date. The best books I read in 2019:

Kitchens of the Great Northwest by J. Ryan Stradal

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

The Ensemble by Aja Gabel

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling

In The Distance by Hernán Díaz