My Favourite Books of the Year by Category

On Tuesday, you can expect my top 19 of 2019, which includes my very favourite books of all genres I’ve read this year. But I read so many books this year that 19 didn’t seem quite enough to include all my favourites, so I decided to also make top 5 and top 10 lists, divided by category/genre.

For more favourites, you can check out my list of favourite books of the decade, and my list of favourite 2019 LGBTQ+ releases.

Adult SFF

Erin Morgenstern – The Starless Sea
TJ Klune – Wolfsong
Leigh Bardugo – Ninth House
Cassandra Clare – The Red Scrolls of Magic
Samantha Shannon – The Priory of the Orange Tree
Becky Chambers – A Closed and Common Orbit
R.F. Kuang – The Poppy War
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman – Good Omens
Bridget Collins – The Binding
Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone – This Is How You Lose the Time War

Adult Romance

Casey McQuiston – Red, White and Royal Blue
E.S. Yu – Human Enough
Talia Hibbert – Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Mina Waheed – Graham’s Delicacies
Austin Chant – Peter Darling

YA Fiction

Abdi Nazemian – Like a Love Story
Mason Deaver – I Wish You All the Best
Robin Talley – Pulp
Zack Smedley – Deposing Nathan
Misa Sugiura – This Time Will Be Different
Caleb Roehrig – Death Prefers Blondes
Shaun David Hutchinson – At the Edge of the Universe
Akemi Dawn Bowman – Summer Bird Blue
Camryn Garrett – Full Disclosure
James Brandon – Ziggy, Stardust and Me

YA SFF

Tehlor Kay Mejia – We Set the Dark on Fire
Natasha Ngan – Girls of Paper and Fire
Victoria Lee – The Fever King
Roshani Chokshi – The Gilded Wolves
Lauren James – The Starlight Watchmaker
Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy – Once & Future
Rory Power – Wilder Girls
A. Alex Logan – Royal Rescue
Hafsah Faizal – We Hunt the Flame
Victoria Schwab – The Archived

Middlegrade

Ashley Herring Blake – Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World
Victoria Schwab – Tunnel of Bones
Kelly Barnhill – The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Lisa Jen Bigelow – Hazel’s Theory of Evolution
Anna Meriano – A Dash of Trouble

Graphic Novels

Keezy Young – Taproot
Suzanne Walker & Wendy Xu – Mooncakes
Katie O’neill – The Tea Dragon Festival
Mai K. Nguyen – Pilu of the Woods
Mariko Tamaki – Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
Kevin Panette & Savanna Ganucheau – Bloom
C.S. Pacat – Fence, Vol. 3
Molly Ostertag – The Witch Boy
Daniel Barnes – The Black Mage
Molly Brooks – Sanity & Tallulah

Poetry

Dean Atta – The Black Flamingo
Jasmine Warga – Other Words For Home
Trista Mateer – Aphrodite Made Me Do It
Shelby Eileen – their body and their afterthought
Shelby Eileen – poems i sleep next to

Non-Fiction

Bianca Toeps – Maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit
Laura Kate Dale – Uncomfortable Labels
Shaun David Hutchinson – Brave Face
Kelly Jensen, ed. – (Don’t) Call Me Crazy
Micah Rajunov, ed. – Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity

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