Our annual roundup of all the books we read in 2019! We share number of books read (Hannah smokes us all, of course), give out awards, and look ahead to 2020.

Links: 

• NYT 100 Notable books for 2019
• Patricia Lockwood on John Updike
• Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Gwenyth Paltrow/Goop 

Books mentioned:

Furious Hours, Casey Cep; The Topeka School, Ben Lerner; Fleishman is in Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner; Normal People & Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney; Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday; Trust Exercise, Susan Choi; Transcription, Kate Atkinson; The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson; Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood; Educated, Tara Westover; Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo; Ladies Who Punch, Ramin Setoodeh; Here I am, Jonathan Safran Foer; The Overstory, Richard Powers; Find Me, Andre Aciman; The Patrick Melrose novels, Edward St Aubyn; Circe, Madeline Miller; Frankenstein, Mary Shelley; Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevksy; The Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante; Howard’s End, E.M. Forster.

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