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Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2019

Special Feature

Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2019

Over the last two months, we asked you to share both your favorite book that you read with your book group and your favorite book that you read outside your group in 2019.

The results are in! Below are the top 10 selected titles in each category.

A special congratulations to our contest winner, Susan B. from Carrollton, TX, who won six fabulous book group titles releasing this year: AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine Cummins, A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD by Therese Anne Fowler, LADY CLEMENTINE by Marie Benedict, LONG BRIGHT RIVER by Liz Moore, THE QUEEN'S FORTUNE: A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty That Outlasted the Empire by Allison Pataki, and SAINT X by Alexis Schaitkin.
 


 

Top 10 Books Read with Your Group:
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens
EDUCATED: A Memoir by Tara Westover
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles
BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate
THE BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK by Kim Michele Richardson
THIS TENDER LAND by William Kent Krueger
PACHINKO by Min Jin Lee
ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE by Gail Honeyman
BECOMING by Michelle Obama
THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orlean

Top 10 Books Read Outside of Your Group: 
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens
THIS TENDER LAND by William Kent Krueger
THE BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK by Kim Michele Richardson
THE DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett
EDUCATED: A Memoir by Tara Westover
ASK AGAIN, YES by Mary Beth Keane
BECOMING by Michelle Obama
BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate
THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles