2019 is about to close and booksellers and literary awards alike are picking their book picks that really stood out for them this year.The first batch is just trickling in: Foyles Books of the Year.

Foyles has just released their shortlist of the best books of the year in the categseries of Fiction, Non Fiction and Children & YA and if you follow my blog, you’ll notice that there are a couple of my personal favorites:

Fiction

• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (I loved this one! It is one of my favorites of the year! Well-deserved honor!)
• The Binding by Bridget Collins (Another one of my favorites!)
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
• Lanny by Max Porter
• Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Non Fiction

• It’s Not About the Burqa by Mariam Khan

• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Me by Caroline Criado-Pérez

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff

• Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane

• Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini

• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

Children & YA

• Crossfire by Malorie Blackman

• Rocket Says Look Up! by Nathan Bryon

• The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell

• Kind by Alison Green
• The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• Don’t Worry, Little Crab by Chris Haughton
• The Iron Man by Ted Hughes