Top 10 Books of 2019

My local independent bookstore (shoutout to Carmichael’s Bookstore!) was asking what everyone’s top 10 titles of 2019 were and it got me thinking about my own.

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  1. After You by JoJo Moyes

  2. The Quantum Spy by David Ignatius


  3. Babylon’s Ashes by James S. A. Corey


  4. The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by Benjamin Wallace


  5. The Half-Life of Marie Currie by Lauren Gunderson


  6. Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell 


  7. Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History by Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic


  8. The Huntress by Kate Quinn


  9. Wanderlust by Lauren Blakely


  10. Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury & Aly Sujo


Top 10 Books of 2019 by Carmichael’s Bookstore:

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  1. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

  2. The Overstory by Richard Powers

  3. Think Little by Wendell Barry

  4. Movies and Other Things by Shea Serrano

  5. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

  6. Becoming by Michelle Obama

  7. Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

  8. Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz

  9. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

  10. The Cornbread Mafia by James Higdon

Full disclosure: I have read zero of these titles, but I have downloaded The Overstory, so…that’s something.

Top 10 Circulated Titles of 2019 from the Louisville Free Public Library:

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1. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
2. Becoming by Michelle Obama
3. Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
4. The Reckoning by John Grisham
5. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
6. Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
7. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
8. Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich
9. Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
10. Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci

Top 10 Circulated Titles of 2019 from the Jeffersonville Township Public Library:

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  1. Becoming by Michelle Obama

  2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

  3. Dog Man Unleashed by Dav Pilkey

  4. The Reckoning by John Grisham

  5. Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

  6. 18th Abduction by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

  7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown by Jeff Kinney

  8. The House Next Door by James Patterson

  9. Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci

  10. Turning Point by Danielle Steel