2019 Library Journal Best Books (Awarded by Library Journal)

Awards List

Crime Fiction

An Aegean April
(*)
Jeffrey Siger

Nothing More Dangerous
(*)
Allen Eskens

A Deadly Divide
(*)
Ausma Zehanat Khan

The Lost Man
(*)
Jane Harper

Girls Like Us
(*)
Cristina Alger

The Wolf Wants In
(*)
Laura McHugh

The Chestnut Man
(*)
Soren Sveistrup

Elevator Pitch
(*)
Linwood Barclay

The Long Call
(*)
Ann Cleeves

Sarah Jane
(*)
James Sallis

Your House Will Pay
(*)
Steph Cha

Graphic Novels

Mister Miracle
(*)
Tom King

Grass
(*)
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi
(*)
Gina Siciliano

Once Upon a Time in France
(*)
Fabien Nury

Rusty Brown
(*)
Chris Ware

Reincarnation Stories
(*)
Kim Deitch

Horror

The Invited
(*)
Jennifer McMahon

The Dark Game
(*)
Jonathan Janz

Growing Things and Other Stories
(*)
Paul Tremblay

Wanderers
(*)
Chuck Wendig

Echoes
(*)
Ellen Datlow

Tinfoil Butterfly
(*)
Rachel Eve Moulton

A Lush and Seething Hell
(*)
John Hornor Jacobs

The Twisted Ones
(*)
T. Kingfisher

Literary Fiction

Boy Swallows Universe
(*)
Trent Dalton

Disappearing Earth
(*)
Julia Phillips

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
(*)
Ocean Vuong

The Nickel Boys
(*)
Colson Whitehead

Inland
(*)
Tea Obreht

Night Boat to Tangier
(*)
Kevin Barry

Red at the Bone
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Shadow King
(*)
Maaza Mengiste

The Water Dancer
(*)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Frankissstein
(*)
Jeanette Winterson

Pop Fiction

Grace After Henry
(*)
Eithne Shortall

Miracle Creek
(*)
Angie Kim

Women Talking
(*)
Miriam Toews

In West Mills
(*)
De'Shawn Charles Winslow

The Dearly Beloved
(*)
Cara Wall

The Oysterville Sewing Circle
(*)
Susan Wiggs

The Secrets We Kept
(*)
Lara Prescott

Today We Go Home
(*)
Kelli Estes

All This Could Be Yours
(*)
Jami Attenberg

The Giver of Stars
(*)
JoJo Moyes

Romance

Ayesha At Last
(*)
Uzma Jalaluddin

Lady Derring Takes a Lover
(*)
Julie Anne Long

A Spy's Guide to Seduction
(*)
Kate Moore

When a Duchess Says I Do
(*)
Grace Burrowes

The Bride Test
(*)
Helen Hoang

Red, White & Royal Blue
(*)
Casey McQuiston

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
(*)
Olivia Waite

The Right Swipe
(*)
Alisha Rai

Bringing Down the Duke
(*)
Evie Dunmore

Once a Spy
(*)
Mary Jo Putney

SF/Fantasy

The Ruin of Kings
(*)
Jenn Lyons

The Light Brigade
(*)
Kameron Hurley

A Memory Called Empire
(*)
Arkady Martine

Jade War
(*)
Fonda Lee

The Lesson
(*)
Cadwell Turnbull

The Heart of the Circle
(*)
Keren Landsman

Chilling Effect
(*)
Valerie Valdes

Gideon the Ninth
(*)
Tamsyn Muir

To Be Taught, If Fortunate
(*)
Becky Chambers

The Library of the Unwritten
(*)
A.J. Hackwith

Short Stories

Rag: Stories
(*)
Maryse Meijer

Lot: Stories
(*)
Bryan Washington

Sabrina & Corina: Stories
(*)
Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Home Remedies
(*)
Xuan Juliana Wang

Orange World and Other Stories
(*)
Karen Russell

The World Doesn't Require You: Stories
(*)
Rion Amilcar Scott

Fly Already: Stories
(*)
Etgar Keret

Driving in Cars with Homeless Men: Stories
(*)
Kate Wisel

World Literature

Berta Isla
(*)
Javier Marias

Death Is Hard Work
(*)
Khaled Khalifa

Crossing
(*)
Pajtim Statovci

Flowers of Mold & Other Stories
(*)
Ha Seong-nan

China Dream
(*)
Ma Jian

Sleepless Night
(*)
Margriet De Moor

The Memory Police
(*)
Yoko Ogawa

When the Plums Are Ripe
(*)
Patrice Nganang

A Fist or a Heart
(*)
Kristin Eiriksdottir

Space Invaders
(*)
Nona Fernandez

Award Categories

Crime Fiction

Graphic Novels

Horror

Literary Fiction

Pop Fiction

Romance

SF/Fantasy

Short Stories

World Literature

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018