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The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019

"The Times's staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year." (TNYT, December 18, 2019). For most people these are some suggestions for future reading, with links in the source article to a full review of the work by the individual critics, as below.
01-10: Dwight Garner's choices
11-20: Parul Sehgal's choices
21-30: Jennifer Szalai's choices
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Night Boat to Tangier (Kevin Barry)
Night Boat to Tangier
1
Kevin Barry
The Yellow House (Sarah M.Broom)
The Yellow House
2
Sarah M.Broom
Trust Exercise (Susan Choi)
Trust Exercise
3
Susan Choi
Underland (Robert MacFarlane)
Underland
4
Robert MacFarlane
Baby, I Don't Care (Chelsey Minnis)
Baby, I Don't Care
5
Chelsey Minnis
Normal People (Sally Rooney)
Normal People
6
Sally Rooney
The Old Drift (Namwali Serpell)
The Old Drift
7
Namwali Serpell
Lot (Bryan Washington)
Lot
8
Bryan Washington
Solitary (Alexander Gordon Smith)
Solitary
9
Alexander Gordon Smith
Doxology (Nell Zink)
Doxology
10
Nell Zink
Ducks, Newburyport (Lucy Ellmann)
Ducks, Newburyport
11
Lucy Ellmann
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (Pekka Hämäläinen)
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power
12
Pekka Hämäläinen
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (Saidiya Hartman)
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
13
Saidiya Hartman
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (Uwe Johnson)
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl
14
Uwe Johnson
The Man Who Saw Everything (Deborah Levy)
The Man Who Saw Everything
15
Deborah Levy
Where Reasons End (Yiyun Li)
Where Reasons End
16
Yiyun Li
Lost Children Archive (Valeria)
Lost Children Archive
17
Valeria
In the Dream House (Carmen Maria Machado)
In the Dream House
18
Carmen Maria Machado
No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us (Rachel Louise Snyder)
No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
19
Rachel Louise Snyder
Women Talking (Miriam Toews)
Women Talking
20
Miriam Toews
American Carnage (Tim Alberta)
American Carnage
21
Tim Alberta
The Undying (Anne Boyer)
The Undying
22
Anne Boyer
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Carolyn Forché)
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
23
Carolyn Forché
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter (Kerri K. Greenidge)
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
24
Kerri K. Greenidge
Midnight in Chernobyl (Adam Higginbotham)
Midnight in Chernobyl
25
Adam Higginbotham
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Daniel Immerwahr)
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
26
Daniel Immerwahr
Say Nothing (Patrick Radden Keefe)
Say Nothing
27
Patrick Radden Keefe
Antisocial (Andrew Marantz)
Antisocial
28
Andrew Marantz
The Hidden History of Burma (Thant Myint-U)
The Hidden History of Burma
29
Thant Myint-U
The Impeachers the Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation (Brenda Wineapple)
The Impeachers the Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
30
Brenda Wineapple
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