Turn on the lights to read the latest story collection from Pulitzer Prize finalist Karen Russell. Lizz Schumer is the staff writer for Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, and Prevention, covering pets, culture, lifestyle, books, and entertainment. It closely tracks the fortunes of three families (black, white, brown) across four generations. (Read the review. The story takes the form of a yearlong diary by enigmatic Gesine Cresspahl, who was born in Germany the year Hitler came to power and has escaped to New York along with her young daughter.

Guardian fiction editor Justine Jordan on the celebrated and overlooked books of the year, including some exceptional US novels, extraordinary translations and great short stories. Best of 2019. They’re hoping to find Maurice’s estranged adult daughter, who may be passing through on her way to (or from) Tangier.

Channeling W.F. But in the wake of unimaginable tragedy, Greene shares how he found hope. Refresh and try again. Good Housekeeping participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. (Read the review. We asked the authors of our favorite books to nominate their favorite books too. They’re a couple of battered and slightly sinister vaudevillians on a late-career mental walkabout. She alludes to the political context in this new book, but the shape of her stunning memoir hews closely to what she herself saw and heard. I dunno if Ben Lerner was reading a lot of Faulkner when he wrote The Topeka School or if he naturally shares some of that writer’s fixations (clan, memory, language) and modes (doom-filled, funny, allusive), but either way: damn. “We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I’m doing it over again, this time by words,” she writes.

The Best Books of 2019 From an experimental memoir of domestic abuse to the one that broke 10,000 brains.

The most traditionally gothic outing of the season lays out the origin story for the horrors contained in Bly Manor.

They discovered city life in New York and Philadelphia and tossed out the narrow scripts they had been given. You'll meet the plucky frontierswoman Nora who's trying to survive a punishing drought while awaiting the return of her husband and sons.

It "reads like an adventure novel. "

For the December issue of O, the Oprah Magazine, our team rounded up some of the best books of 2019.

We meet communists and chorines, anonymous women gazing into shop windows, the anti-lynching activist Ida B.

Weiner's books are reliably excellent, and this one is absolutely no exception.

Land had to put her dreams of higher education on hold when a dead-end relationship yielded an unexpected pregnancy and she struggled to feed herself and her child. Zink writes as if the political madness of the last four decades had been laid on for her benefit as a novelist.

Books published in the United States in English, including works in translation and other significant rereleases, between November 16, 2018, and November 15, 2019, are eligible for the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards.

/ Why don’t you try it?” she says. For more of their thoughts about the year, including books they may not have reviewed themselves but still enjoyed, you can read their related roundtable discussion. (Read the review.

“Baby, it’s so sexy to think.

His characters move through streets that he names so often — Richmond and Waugh, Rusk and Fairview — that they come to have talismanic power, like the street names in Springsteen songs. With updated release dates where available.

Boyer’s extraordinary and furious book is partly a memoir of her illness, diagnosed five years ago; she was 41 when she learned that the lump in her breast was triple-negative cancer, one of the deadliest kinds. Anja is a scientist who lives in a “socio-environmental living experiment” in Berlin, which means a campus of ecohouses that are poorly ventilated and smell like human waste. It’s about three women who push a certain “Don’t Tread on Me” philosophy to a punishing extreme by living off the grid in a DIY hut, eating groundhog stew, getting in trouble with multiple authorities, and focusing every trick of human resourcefulness onto a situation of wretched poverty. In his chilling book about Chernobyl, Higginbotham shows how an almost fanatical compulsion for secrecy among the Soviet Union’s governing elite was part of what made the reactor explosion of 1986 not just cataclysmic but so likely in the first place. “The Old Drift” is an intimate, brainy, gleaming epic, set mostly in what is now Zambia, the landlocked country in southern Africa.

(Read the review. It focuses on eight Mennonite women who — after being repeatedly drugged and attacked by a group of men in their community — meet in secret and decide how to reclaim their lives not just for their own future, but also for their daughters'. She is a virtuosic writer who brings life and fullness to each woman and each family she depicts.

Writing about Burma, Thant Myint-U’s focus is on convulsions of the last 15 years, from a seemingly unshakable military dictatorship to the beginnings of democratic rule.

This book moves around the world as Broom takes jobs elsewhere, including Burundi.

), ‘AMERICAN CARNAGE: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump’ By Tim Alberta (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers). This chilling dystopia feels like a fable for a modern era, and a must-read for women today.

), ‘WAYWARD LIVES, BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval’ By Saidiya Hartman (W.W. Norton & Company).

Our old reliable books will always have a place in our hearts (and on our bookshelves) but these are the reads that we think deserve a spot on your bedside table, in your carryon, or even as a gift for a bookworm loved one or fellow book club member right now. Taddeo spent almost a decade embedding herself in the worlds of three very different women to paint this moving portrait of what it's like in their lives.

Genre fans with hefty streaming budgets are in for a treat this year. ], ‘LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE’ By Valeria Luiselli (Alfred A. Knopf). ), ‘LOT: Stories’ By Bryan Washington (Riverhead Books). They have to grapple with where the bounds of taking care of family end, and what happens when yours starts to fall apart.

By Dwight Garner, Parul Sehgal and Jennifer Szalai. This engrossing love story follows the sporty and outgoing Connell and the shy and quiet Marianne, who are drawn together despite their differences.

When the humans turn into zombie-like creatures, it's up to the animals to save the planet in this irreverent dystopian romp.

Satisfyingly, it’s also about revenge. But as she comes of age in a post-9/11 world, she has to grapple with political forces and her own history.

By turns funny, emotional, and sharply observant, Brown investigates disability representation in pop culture, self-love, her relationship with her twin, and so much more. Don´t mis…, Double Award winning Memoir with a kick! So is this book. She returns with a stunning collection in which, for one, a woman agrees to breastfeed the devil in exchange for her child’s protection. Hey #258 is Fence Vol. Your next can't-put-it-down read is here.

By Molly Young. Regardless of your age or relationship status, you'll see echoes of yourself in this stunning new novel.

Du Bois as a gadfly: radical, outspoken and indefatigable.

Broom’s family felt a constant sense of shame.

They are both gifted students and wind up at Trinity College in Dublin. Bernardine Evaristo, Lee Child and more pick the best books of 2019 Save up to 30% on the books of the year at guardianbookshop.com Sat 30 Nov …

After World War II, the search is on for a legendary Nazi dubbed the Huntress — an effort that encircles an American teen, an English journalist, and a Russian aviatrix. You be the judge.

Congratulations to the best books of the year! A history of Jack the Ripper’s victims, memoirs about trauma and class, and a bestselling study of desire and sex ... here are the standout life stories of the year. Here are the Book Review’s 10 best books of 2019.

Bake a pan of gingerbread before you pick up this excellent fairytale-inspired read. (Read the review.

Throughout this short novel they linger in the dismal all-night waiting room of a ferry terminal in the Spanish port city of Algeciras. The novel becomes a phosphorescent examination of sexual consent, especially when applied to student-teacher relationships.

Three girls and their mother live in a protected island sanctuary built for them by their father, the only man they've ever seen.

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Often poems conjure an event, a lyric occasion marked by stillness and observation. Four friends meet their freshman year of college, as so many of us do. It's everything you want it to be, and then some.

— John Williams, Daily Books Editor and Staff Writer, ‘NIGHT BOAT TO TANGIER’ By Kevin Barry (Doubleday). That same power saves his life when he almost drowns years later, instilling a powerful urge to escape the only life he's ever known. William Monroe Trotter, who edited the Boston-based black weekly newspaper The Guardian in the first three decades of the 20th century, shows up in the biographies of contemporaries like Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. This sultry novel follows three sisters named Althea, Viola, and Lillian whose lives are forever altered when Althea is suddenly arrested — forcing Viola and Lillian to pick up the pieces of their family.

Able to find only a few histories that might explain her own, she creates a library in miniature with this book, which explores a long-invisible story in every conceivable genre, a living archive of her own design. It's a complex, darkly beautiful story with some of the most inventive storytelling we've read all year. And the story of the migrant, she believes, insists upon a new form: How else to tell a story that has no end?

It pushes into the near future, proposing a world in which flocking bug-size microdrones are a) fantastically cool and b) put to chilling totalitarian purposes.

It's a tale as old as time: A couple gets married, they have kids, move to the 'burbs, their love starts to cool, and they need something to spice it up. It’s not long now until Britain finds out what Santa has brought us for a government. Opening round official nominees must have an average rating of 3.50 or higher at the time of launch. In this delightfully mysterious novel, Bertha Truitt turns up unconscious and almost frozen in a New England cemetery.

She reveals what it means to believe something completely, lose that faith and start over, as well as the challenges that come with it. From the author of The Night Circus comes a wildly fanciful lark that has all the hits: mystery, love, libraries, Harry Potter references, and pirates.

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