I'm careful to never call my end-of-the-year list a "Best Of," because as much as I'd like to read all the books, I get through such a small percentage of the books I want to read each year. This is a list of favourites — the books I couldn't put down, the books I highlighted in, and the books I've recommended over all others.
This year's list wasn't easy. There were a lot of good books published in 2019, but I've narrowed them down into a top-ten list that's mostly Canadian and mostly written by women. This year's list is a 50/50 spit between fiction and non-fiction (a departure for me). Read 2018's list, which was dominated by non-fiction.
In no particular order:
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- Coconut Dreams by Derek Mascarenhas
- Just Pervs by Jess Taylor (Read my review on rabble.ca)
- Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden
- Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
- A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
- Daughter of Family G: A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate by Ami McKay
- The Missing Millionaire: The True Story of Ambrose Small and the City Obsessed With Finding Him by Katie Daubs
- Had it Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle (Read Erin Wunker's review in the Hamilton Review of Books)
- Bunny by Mona Awad (Read Anuja Varghese's review in the Hamilton Review of Books)
Honourable mention (Three books I read in 2019 that weren't published in 2019)
- Us Conductors by Sean Michaels (for a second time, because it's just so good)
- Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
- Her by Christa Parravani
- Suzanne by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
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