Best Books of 2019

I collected over 10 lists of the Best Books of 2019 from the Internet, newspapers and magazines and combined them into one meta-list.  Here are the results, every book on at least three of the original source lists, organized by rank (that is, with the books on the most lists at the top).

NOTE: These are not my personal opinions and I have not read all these books.

On 10 lists
Nonfiction
SAY NOTHING: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. By Patrick Radden Keefe

On 9 lists
Fiction
TRUST EXERCISE. By Susan Choi
ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS. By Ocean Vuong
DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT. By Lucy Ellmann
NORMAL PEOPLE. By Sally Rooney
THE NICKEL BOYS. By Colson Whitehead
FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE. By Taffy Brodesser-Akner

On 8 lists
Nonfiction
TRICK MIRROR: Reflections on Self-Delusion. By Jia Tolentino

On 7 lists
Fiction
RED AT THE BONE. By Jacqueline Woodson
LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE. By Valeria Luiselli

Nonfiction
THE YELLOW HOUSE. By Sarah M. Broom

On 6 lists
Fiction
THE MEMORY POLICE. By Yoko Ogawa. Translated by Stephen Snyder
THE TESTAMENTS. By Margaret Atwood
WOMEN TALKING. By Miriam Toews

Nonfiction
HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES: A Memoir. By Saeed Jones
UNDERLAND: A Deep Time Journey. By Robert Macfarlane
THREE WOMEN. By Lisa Taddeo
IN THE DREAM HOUSE: A Memoir. By Carmen Maria Machado

On 5 lists
Fiction
GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER. By Bernardine Evaristo
THE DUTCH HOUSE. By Ann Patchett
THE MAN WHO SAW EVERYTHING. By Deborah Levy
EXHALATION. By Ted Chiang
DISAPPEARING EARTH. By Julia Phillips
LOT: Stories. By Bryan Washington

Nonfiction
FURIOUS HOURS: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee. By Casey Cep
THE HEARTBEAT OF WOUNDED KNEE: Native America from 1890 to the Present. By David Treuer
HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST. By Ibram X. Kendi

On 4 lists
Fiction
NINTH HOUSE. By Leigh Bardugo
INLAND. By Téa Obreht
THE WATER DANCER. By Ta-Nehisi Coates
THE OTHER AMERICANS. By Laila Lalami
THE TOPEKA SCHOOL. By Ben Lerner
RUSTY BROWN. By Chris Ware
NIGHT BOAT TO TANGIER. By Kevin Barry
MOSTLY DEAD THINGS. By Kristen Arnett
THE NEED. By Helen Phillips
ORANGE WORLD. And Other Stories. By Karen Russell

Nonfiction
CATCH AND KILL: Lies, Spies, And A Conspiracy To Protect Predators. By Ronan Farrow
SHE SAID: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement. By Megan Twohey & Jodi Kantor
OUR MAN: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century. By George Packer
KNOW MY NAME: A Memoir. By Chanel Miller
GOOD TALK: A Memoir in Conversations. By Mira Jacob
THICK: And Other Essays. By Tressie McMillan Cottom
THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. By Shoshana Zuboff
THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH: Life After Warming. By David Wallace-Wells

Poetry
THE TRADITION. By Jericho Brown
DEAF REPUBLIC. By Ilya Kaminsky

On 3 lists
Fiction
WHERE REASONS END. By Yiyun Li
AN ORCHESTRA OF MINORITIES. By Chigozie Obioma
DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD. By Olga Tokarczuk. Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF. By Marlon James
BUNNY. By Mona Awad
GIDEON THE NINTH. By Tamsyn Muir
PATSY. By Nicole Dennis-Benn
OLIVE, AGAIN. By Elizabeth Strout
THE PORPOISE. By Mark Haddon
AMERICAN SPY. By Lauren Wilkinson
GIRL. By Edna O’Brien
NOTHING TO SEE HERE. By Kevin Wilson
THE OLD DRIFT. By Namwali Serpell
SABRINA & CORINA: Stories. By Kali Fajardo-Anstine
THE WORLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU: Stories. By Rion Amilcar Scott

Nonfiction
PARKLAND: Birth of a Movement. By Dave Cullen
BECAUSE INTERNET: Understanding the New Rules of Language. By Gretchen McCulloch
HOW TO DO NOTHING: Resisting the Attention Economy. By Jenny Odell
ONCE MORE WE SAW STARS. By Jayson Greene
GUEST HOUSE FOR YOUNG WIDOWS: Among the Women of ISIS. By Azadeh Moaveni
MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. By Adam Higginbotham
AUDIENCE OF ONE: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America. By James Poniewozik
NO VISIBLE BRUISES: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us. By Rachel Louise Snyder
SOLITARY: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope. By Albert Woodfox with Leslie George
WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD IS TRUE: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. By Carolyn Forché
KOCHLAND: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America. By Christopher Leonard
THE EDUCATION OF AN IDEALIST: A Memoir. By Samantha Power