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
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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Non Fiction
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It’s Not About the Burqa by Mariam Khan
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Me by Caroline Criado-Pérez
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
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Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
Children & YA
- Crossfire by Malorie Blackman
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Rocket Says Look Up! by Nathan Bryon
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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
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