Goodreads Staffers' Top Three Books of the Year

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

Diana wrote: "Max wrote: "Nice lists. I saw a couple I read. Here are my top 3:
1) The Grapes of Wrath
2) Moby Dick
3) How to Hide an Empire (a book that’s actually from 2019)"

Glad somebody likes MD. It is the..."
The Grapes of Wrath is one of my all-time favorites. Steinbeck is one of my favorite authors.

Patti

My choice for my top three reads in 2019 are:
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati
The Other Side of the Bridge by Camron Wright
and because I couldn't leave this one out:
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
There were so many more!! I love a year with many great books!!

My top three for 2019
1.Rules of Civility Amor Towles
2. News of the World Paulette Jiles
3. The Dutch House Ann Patchett

My top 3:

1. Catch and Kill - Ronan Farrow
2. Normal People - Sally Rooney
3. Proust's Duchess - Caroline Weber

The World That We Knew (Hoffman)
Lincoln in the Bardo (Saunders)
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (See)

In this order:
1. Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
2. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
3. Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang

1. This Tender Land- William Kent Krueger
2. Recursion- Blake Crouch
3. 1Q84- Haruki Marukami

Tough to choose just 3 books that I really liked this year but here goes.

The Eye of the World Robert Jordan
The Light Brigade Kameron Hurley
The Calculating Stars Mary Robinette Kowal

Can't believe it took me this long to read 'The Eye of the World". Really loved that one.

I am also having trouble narrowing it down to just three! But I am going to go with these:

1. The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
2. Becoming by Michelle Obama
3. The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo

I had lots of 5 star books this year. Favorites:
1. Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
2. American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
3. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

I also loved these recent releases: Circe; There, There; The Friend

1. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
2. The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib
3. The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
4. Becoming by Michelle Obama
I had to make it 4, too many good reads!

1) Sing, Unburied, Sing- Jesmyn Ward
2) Stamped From The Beginning- Kendi
3) The Water Dancer- Ta-Nehisi Coates

My top 3: This Tender Land
Pachinko
The Giver of Stars

My Top Three:
Educated
Where The Crawdads Sing
A Beautiful Blue Death

Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Son by Philipp Meyer

In no particular order:

-Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind|23692271][
-The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference|2612]
-Tiamat's Wrath|28335698]

Top three from 2019

1) The Giver of Stars- JoJo Moyes
2) Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
3) The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown

This list is great. Lots of new things to read.

My top three reads for this year were:
Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
One Day in December by Josie Silver.

But I also really loved Margaret Dilloway's Summer of a Thousand Pies and Casey McQuiston's Red White and Royal Blue.

I have read 180 books this year...finding the top 3 was a hard task.

1. ) The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
2. ) Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
3. ) The Bright Unknown by Elizabeth Byler Younts

I read so many good ones my honorable mention is
The Child of Auschwitz by Lily Graham

My top 3 books of 2019:
-Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
-Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis
-Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

My top 3:
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Echo by Pam Ryan Munoz

1. The Nightingale
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
3. Where the Crawdads Sing

1. Ghost Boy
2. Caliban's War
3. Heat Rises

Stranger in the Woods, Michel Finkel
The Whisper Man, Alex North
The Home for Unwanted Girls, Joanna Goodman

My top 3:

Not done reading for the year yet, but my top 3 might look something like this

1. A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
2. Age of Legend by Michael J. Sullivan
3. Recursion by Blake Crouch

Favorites read (not necessarily published in 2019)
1. Where the Crawdads Sing
2. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
3. The Lost Man

from Lorraine
My top three books I've read in 2019 are:-

1. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

2. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

3. Lord of The Bow by Conn Iggulden

Fascinating to read everyone's favourites. I need an extra brain to do all this reading! Tricky to choose but I'll go for:

1. Milkman by Anna Burns
2. Dracula by Bram Stoker
3. Factufulness by Hans Rosling

I see some books I've read and my wish list is going to get longer, but my favorite 3 from this year:

1. "The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness" by James Campbell

2. "Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party" by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

3. "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck (which surpassed "Moby Dick" by a hair as my favorite American novel as I listened to a dozen of my all time favorite books this year)

I expect to finish 3 more books before year's end, including one that was released today!

1. Miss Jane - Watson

And The star giver by Jojo Moyes. Great read!

Katherine wrote: "I have read a lot of good ones this year but these 3 stand out as extra special!
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert"

William Kent Krueger <3 <3

I've read many good books this year.

My top read in 2019 (in no particular order: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig, Necessary People by Anna Pitoniak, & Skin Deep by Liz Nugent.

Honourable mention to: The Favorite Daughter by Kaira Rouda.

The Bartender's Tale - Ivan Doig
City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith - Anne Lamott

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
Son of a Trickster By Eden Robinson
Reclaiming Power and Place : The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

War on Women - Sue Lloyd-Roberts
Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

My top 3 are 1. Chances Are ,..,.Richard Russo 2.The Secrets we kept Lara Prescott 3. The Guest Book Sarah Blake and so many more 2019 had Great Books looking forward to 2020

I had a good book year. My top three are: 1) Circe 2) The Overstory 3) What the Wind Knows

The top 3 in order:

The Dreamt Land, by Mark Arax

Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck,

Less, by Andrew Sean Greer

1)The five chimneys - a survivor's story
2)The light in the hallway - Amanda Prowse
3)The Planets - Proff Brian Cox
I love history and science, hence books 1 and 3
Amanda Prowse is one of my very favourite authors and have read nearly all of her books, each time within days of receiving it.

So many good books, but my top 3 this year were:
1. Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier (my all-time favorite book but I reread it this year, so that counts, right??)
2. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
3. Helen of Troy by Margaret George

I was on a Trojan War kick this year and those last two were my favorite retellings!

Still expect to finish two more by end of the year (one currently reading and one to be selected), but my top three at this point:

1. Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
2. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
3. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton

Recently acquiring a job at my city's public library, I read more this year than I have since before college (though 27 books hardly puts a dent in my 183 (and ever growing) to-read list). I'm so glad reading is a part of my life again. I don't know how I would have survived without these three wonderful stories.

The Heart's Invisible Furies, definitely.
The Women in the Castle
And the 3rd... hmm. Reading The Nickel Boys now, that might be it

For Fiction:
1. Gone With the Wind -- Margaret Mitchell
2. The Haunting of Hill House -- Shirley Jackson
3. The House of Silk -- Anthony Horowitz

For Nonfiction:
1. The Diabetes Code -- Jason Fung
2. Lost in Math -- Sabine Hossenfelder
3. A Crack in Creation -- Jennifer Doudna

My top three are
The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
A Fortunate Life by A. B. Facey
A hard choice but all very good books.