As we wrap up 2019, I’ve taken stock of the books I’ve read this year and put together a list of my very favorites. There are still many books from 2019 that are on my bedside table that might have made the list, but I didn’t get to them in time. Maybe they’ll make the list for 2020! In the meantime, here are my favorites from the past year and a few books I’m looking forward to in 2020.

Best wishes to all for a wonderful, joyful New Year, and as always, happy reading!

Alison’s Favorites 2019

Fiction:
The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett
The Giver of Stars, by Jojo Moyes
The Hiding Place, by CJ Tudor
Girls Like Us, by Christina Alger
Daisy Jones & the Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Ask Again, Yes, by Mary Beth Keane
The River, by Peter Heller
Long, Bright River, by Liz Moore

Non-Fiction:
The Library Book, by Susan Orlean
The Death of Politics, by Peter Wehner
The Fifth Risk, by Michael Lewis

Books I’m most looking forward to in 2020:
The Unwilling, by John Hart (June, 2020)(author of The Lost Child and Down River)
Simon the Fiddler, by Paulette Jiles (April 2020)(author of News of the World)
The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel (February 2020)(author of Station Eleven)
The Splendid and the Vile, by Erik Larson (February 2020)(author of Devil in the White City, and In the Garden of Beasts)