2019 Publishers Weekly Best Books (Awarded by Publishers Weekly)

Awards List

Comics

Rusty Brown
(*)
Chris Ware

Fiction

Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
(*)
Olga Tokarczuk

An Orchestra of Minorities
(*)
Chigozie Obioma

The Far Field
(*)
Madhuri Vijay

Ghost Wall
(*)
Sarah Moss

Mouthful of Birds: Stories
(*)
Samanta Schweblin

Bowlaway
(*)
Elizabeth McCracken

Mars
(*)
Asja Bakic

Women Talking
(*)
Miriam Toews

Stalingrad
(*)
Vasily Grossman

Exposed
(*)
Jean-Philippe Blondel

The Need
(*)
Helen Phillips

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

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
(*)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Ducks, Newburyport
(*)
Lucy Ellmann

The Sweetest Fruits
(*)
Monique Truong

Black Forest
(*)
Valerie Mrejen

Frankissstein
(*)
Jeanette Winterson

Grand Union: Stories
(*)
Zadie Smith

Olive, Again
(*)
Elizabeth Strout

The Factory
(*)
Hiroko Oyamada

Middle Grade

The Lost Girl
(*)
Anne Ursu

New Kid
(*)
Jerry Craft

Pay Attention, Carter Jones
(*)
Gary D. Schmidt

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
(*)
Carlos Hernandez

The Line Tender
(*)
Kate Allen

The Next Great Paulie Fink
(*)
Ali Benjamin

The Strangers
(*)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Dream Within a Dream
(*)
Patricia MacLachlan

Other Words for Home
(*)
Jasmine Warga

All the Greys on Greene Street
(*)
Laura Tucker

Queen of the Sea
(*)
Dylan Meconis

This Was Our Pact
(*)
Ryan Andrews

My Jasper June
(*)
Laurel Snyder

Look Both Ways
(*)
Jason Reynolds

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
(*)
Kwame Mbalia

Mystery/Thriller

The Silent Patient
(*)
Alex Michaelides

Alice's Island
(*)
Daniel Sanchez Arevalo

Conviction
(*)
Denise Mina

Good Girl, Bad Girl
(*)
Michael Robotham

Lady in the Lake
(*)
Laura Lippman

Red Metal
(*)
Mark Greaney; H. Ripley Rawlings IV

Game of Snipers
(*)
Stephen Hunter

This Poison Will Remain
(*)
Fred Vargas

The Bone Fire
(*)
S.D. Sykes

Your House Will Pay
(*)
Steph Cha

Picture Books

Crab Cake: Turning the Tide Together
(*)
Andrea Tsurumi

Another
(*)
Christian Robinson

Daniel's Good Day
(*)
Micha Archer

My Papi Has a Motorcycle
(*)
Isabel Quintero

Vroom!
(*)
Barbara McClintock

Small in the City
(*)
Sydney Smith

A Stone Sat Still
(*)
Brendan Wenzel

Who Wet My Pants?
(*)
Bob Shea

Birdsong
(*)
Julie Flett

Fry Bread
(*)
Kevin Noble Maillard

Pokko and the Drum
(*)
Matthew Forsythe

River
(*)
Elisha Cooper

Roar Like a Dandelion
(*)
Ruth Krauss

Saturday
(*)
Oge Mora

Romance

Ayesha At Last
(*)
Uzma Jalaluddin

The Ex-Princess
(*)
Fiona West

The Doctor's Secret
(*)
Heidi Cullinan

Red, White & Royal Blue
(*)
Casey McQuiston

Bringing Down the Duke
(*)
Evie Dunmore

The Devil in the Saddle
(*)
Julia London

Get a Life, Chloe Brown
(*)
Talia Hibbert

SF/Fantasy/Horror

A People's Future of the United States
(*)
Victor Lavalle

The Light Brigade
(*)
Kameron Hurley

The Luminous Dead
(*)
Caitlin Starling

Middlegame
(*)
Seanan McGuire

The Lesson
(*)
Cadwell Turnbull

Wanderers
(*)
Chuck Wendig

The Institute
(*)
Stephen King

Top 10

Optic Nerve
(*)
Maria Gainza

Trust Exercise
(*)
Susan Choi

The Nickel Boys
(*)
Colson Whitehead

From the Shadows
(*)
Juan Jose Millas

The Man Who Saw Everything
(*)
Deborah Levy

Young Adult

The Waning Age
(*)
S.E. Grove

Kiss Number 8
(*)
Colleen A.F. Venable

Out of Salem
(*)
Hal Schrieve

Voices
(*)
David Elliott

We Rule the Night
(*)
Claire Eliza Bartlett

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
(*)
Mariko Tamaki

With the Fire on High
(*)
Elizabeth Acevedo

Ordinary Girls
(*)
Blair Thornburgh

Patron Saints of Nothing
(*)
Randy Ribay

The Downstairs Girl
(*)
Stacey Lee

Pet
(*)
Akwaeke Emezi

SLAY
(*)
Brittney Morris

Angel Mage
(*)
Garth Nix

The Last True Poets of the Sea
(*)
Julia Drake

Gravity
(*)
Sarah Deming

Award Categories

Comics

Fiction

Middle Grade

Mystery/Thriller

Picture Books

Romance

SF/Fantasy/Horror

Top 10

Young Adult

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018