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Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Books of the Year: 2019
Here are my picks for the best books of 2019, fiction and nonfiction. These aren't the best books published this year, but rather the best I've read in the last twelve months. The winner in both categories is barely distinguished from the pack, and the runners up are all worthy of reading. Runners up appear in alphabetical order by their author's surname. Each title is linked to my review of the book.Fiction:
Winner:Runners up:
- The Powers of the Earth and Causes of Separation by Travis J. I. Corcoran
I am jointly choosing these two novels as fiction books of the year. They are the first two volumes of the Aristillus series and may be read as one long story spanning two books.
- The Code Hunters by Jackson Coppley
- The Dawn of the Iron Dragon and The Voyage of the Iron Dragon by Robert Kroese
- Delta-v by Daniel Suarez
- Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves, Five Million Watts, and The Tower of the Bear by Fenton Wood
Nonfiction:
Winner:Runners up:
- Stalin, Vol. 2: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
- At Our Wits' End by Edward Dutton and Michael A. Woodley of Menie
- Sunburst and Luminary by Don Eyles
- Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
- Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
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