My Book of the Year for 2019 is…
one of the following.
Book of the Year 2019 long list
I long list nearly all of those I’ve given five stars on Goodreads during the year. So those are (links to my reviews here):
- Sapo Saga by Tony Laplume (scifi)
- The A-Zs of Worldbuilding: Building Fictional Worlds from Scratch by Rebekah Loper (non-fic)
- The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths (crime)
- ‘Kill the Black One First’ by Michael Fuller (non-fic)
- Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer (non-fic)
- Galileo’s Theme Park ed. by Juliana Rew (scifi, anthology)
- Cosmic Colin: Hairy Hamster Horror by Tim Collins (scifi, mg)
- Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Torro (dark fantasy)
- The Unwinding: Gin’s Story by Juliana Rew (scifi)
- Oceans (Frontiers of Speculative Fiction) ed. by Jessica West (spec fiction, anthology)
- The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (fantasy)
- The Witches by Roald Dahl (mg)
- Witchbone Winter – the Goblin’s Tale by Alex Norton (fantasy, mg)
- Starry Night by Rhonda Parrish (scifi novella)
- Ashes of London by Andrew Taylor (historical suspense)
- Deeplight by Frances Hardinge (scifi, mg)
- Secrets of the Great Fire Tree by Justine Laismith (mg)
- The Earthkeepers by Shawn Underhill (fantasy, mg)
- Death by Library by Rebecca M Douglass (cosy mystery)
- My Sister’s Bones by Nuala Ellwood (suspense)
- Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (scifi)
That’s 21 out of 58. It’s a couple more than my average. I think the number of excellent Netgalley offerings helped that.
This year I’m going to award some genre prizes, since I have a lot of scifi/fantasy/speculative fiction to pick from, and lots of 5 star mg and non-fiction reads, which is unusual.
Best Speculative Fiction (inc. scifi and fantasy)
Really difficult choice between The Unwinding: Gin’s Story, The Scorpio Races and Record of a Spaceborn Few…..
and the winner is:
Best MG/Teen
The winner is:
Best non-fiction
The winner is:
Book of the year 2019
even more difficult choice between The Scorpio Races, Record of a Spaceborn Few, The Stone Circle, Ashes of London, My Sister’s Bones and Deeplight…
and the winner is:
oh, heck… I really can’t decide. Pick any of them, they’re brilliant.
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Enjoyed this post.
What a great reference for the next time I don’t know what to read (now, if I can just remember about it in a year or two when I get through the stuff I have queued up…).
I am deeply honored to be in such good company!
Thanks, Jemima – I might read the Stone Circle.
I think it is high time I pick up Deeplight! Hope you find it even more difficult to make a choice next year 🙂