Here you go, a full month late: my favorite books that I read last year, in nine categories. Several of these were not books published in 2019, just books that it took me a while to get to.
Children’s Literature: Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
YA Literature: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Adult Fiction: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Science Fiction: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
In Translation: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
General Nonfiction: A Death in the Rainforest by Don Kulick
Memoir: The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang
Christian: The Common Rule by Justin Whitmel Earley
Poetry: Tropic of Squalor by Mary Karr
What about you?
