Best (and worst) books of 2019

Let's start posting those inevitable "Best of..." rosters:

https://thequietus.com/articles/27597-best-books-of-the-year-2019-fiction-non-fi...

When a new book comes out I read an old one.
-- Samuel Rogers

The NEW YORKER's editors make their selection:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2019-in-review/the-best-books-of-2019

...and VANITY FAIR too:

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/12/the-best-books-of-2019-editors-picks

Goodreads chimes in:

https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2019

Here are my picks for best books read in 2019. Something old, something new...

https://cliffjburns.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/best-books-read-in-2019

Anyone else?

These are the books I rated 4 stars and above last year:

Fiction
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Invincible by Stanisław Lem
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

Nonfiction
Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire by La Marquise de La Tour du Pin
Lives of the Artists: Volume 1 by Giorgio Vasari
The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton
Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas Hamilton
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de Las Casas

Graphic Novels
Berlin by Jason Lutes

Here's mine: https://iansales.com/2020/01/01/best-of-the-year-2019/

Don't know whether favourite or best but hands down The Civilizing Process and The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau. The most powerful work of fiction was Animalia. The sociological study that stands out in memory was Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity--I always enjoy discovering a new subculture (using the term very loosely).

Best and Worst Books 2019 from my library

Best international fiction: La Vagabonde by Collette and Little Gods: A Novel by Meng Jin.

Best mainstream fiction: When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald (early review, release this month)

Best nonfiction: Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy.

Worst fiction: What Angels Fear: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery, Book 1 by C S Harris.

That's it.

Take a look at this dude's "worst books of 2019" roster. Some big names included:

https://openlettersreview.com/posts/the-worst-books-of-2019-fiction

>11 CliffBurns:

Can't say I disagree with the bulk of his choices. Obviously A**holes in fiction get on his last nerve. The kinds of plots he describes are exactly the kinds I can't stand either. Think I posted about this in another thread.

For me, the worst books of any year usually have inhabited the NYT Bestsellers List.