Jenny divulges her top reads of 2019 and shares the top reads of sixteen other readers. All of us focus on books we read in 2019; they may or may not have been published in 2019. That's how regular readers work! If you listen past that section, there will also be some discussion of the Best of the Decade in reads and reading experiences. Thanks to all of you who participate, interact, and listen to the podcast! You have made this a marvelous year and decade.  Best wishes in the new year. The next episode will be all about reading goals, so feel free to share your 2020 reading goals with me and I might mention them. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 176: Best of 2019 with Jenny and Menagerie. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Listen through Spotify  Books Mentioned: Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman Castle of Water by Dane Kuckelbridge Lent by Jo Walton Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson Against Memoir by Michelle Tea Brute: Poems by Emily Skaja The Library of Small Catastrophes by Alison C. Rollins Halal if You Hear Me edited by Safia Elhillo and Fatimah Asghar Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trolloppe The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett The Way to the Sea by Caroline Crampton The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells Foundation by Isaac Asimov Tu by Patricia Grace The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison East West Street by Philippe Sands The Great Believers by Rebekah Makkai Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vasquez Birdie by Tracey Lindberg They Will Drown in Their Mother's Tears by Johannes Anyuru The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose Cantoras by Caroline de Robertis The Deeper the Water, the Uglier the Fish by Katya Apekina Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Very Marrow of Our Bones by Christine Higdon The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa Metro 2035 by Dmitry Glukhovsky In the Distance by Hernan Diaz Mortality by Christopher Hitchens Train Dreams by Denis Johnson Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney Normal People by Sally Rooney Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk Nobber by Oisin Fagan Women Talking by Miriam Toews When Chickenheads Come Home To Roost by Joan Morgan Our Women on the Ground edited by Zahra Hankir The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal Sefira and Other Betrayals by John Langan Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami The Book of Night Women by Marlon James Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Fired Up by Andrew Johnston The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy This Tilting World by Colette Bellous Other Mentions: Jenny's Full Best of 2019 List Jenny's Best of the Decade List Safia Elhillo and Fatimah Asghar reading at The Strand Shedunnit Podcast Related Episodes: Episode 142 - Borders and Bails with Shawn Mooney Episode 150 - Rife with Storytelling with Sara  Episode 154 - Is If If with Paula Episode 157 - Joint Readalong of Gone with the Wind with Book Cougars Episode 159 - Reading Doorways with Lindy Episode 160 - Reading Plays with Elizabeth Episode 163 - Fainting Goats with Lauren Episode 166 - On Brand with Karen Episode 167 - Book Pendulum with Reggie Episode 173 - Expecting a Lot from a Book with Sarah Tittle  Episode 174 - Cozy Holiday Reads and TBR Explode 4 Episode 175 - Reading on Impulse with Marion Hill Stalk me online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy