I never do a top 10 list, but every year I note the books that I really enjoyed and which I think others might really enjoy too.
Some were published in 2019, but many weren’t, and that’s okay, because again this isn’t a top 10 list of books published this year but instead a list of books I really liked.
I’ve put asterisks next to the titles where I listened to the audiobooks, and because of that I’ve included the narrators in parenthesis, as oftentimes the narrator really makes or breaks an audiobook.
FICTION
THE HATE U GIVE by Angie Thomas
A TIME TO SCATTER STONES by Lawrence Block
NO DOORS, NO WINDOWS by Joe Schreiber
OUT OF THE DARK by Gregg Hurwitz (read by Scott Brick)*
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens (read by Cassandra Campbell)*
SHELTER IN PLACE by Nora Roberts
RUN AWAY by Harlan Coben
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead
THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides
THE BORDER by Don Winslow (read by Ray Porter)*
THE NEVER GAME by Jeffery Deaver
I AM WATCHING YOU by Teresa Driscoll (read by Elizabeth Knowelden)*
THE CHANGELING by Victor LaValle
DARK SITE by Patrick Lee
NIGHT PASSAGE by Robert B. Parker
EVIDENCE OF THE AFFAIR by Taylor Jenkins Reid (read by Julia Whelan, George Newbern, James Daniels, and Dara Rosenberg)*
RECURSION by Blake Crouch
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE by J.K. Rowling (read by Jim Dale)*
A DANGEROUS MAN by Robert Crais
DOUBLE INDEMNITY by James M. Cain
THE BREAKDOWN by B.A. Paris
THE INSTITUTE by Stephen King (read by Santino Fontana)*
I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS by Iain Reid
THE FACES by Douglas Clegg
THEN SHE WAS GONE by Lisa Jewell (read by Helen Duff)*
SHORT FICTION
FRIDAY BLACK by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson
NONFICTION
EDUCATED by Tara Westover (read by Julia Whelan)*
ALMOST INTERESTING by David Spade (read by the author)*
CATCH AND KILL: LIES, SPIES, AND A CONSPIRACY TO PROTECT PREDATORS by Ronan Farrow (read by the author)*
Now, what about you? Any books you read this past year you really enjoyed?