From riveting reads to fun films and everything in between, we present to you: our Best of 2019! Find these titles and more on our Spotlight display in December.

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FICTION:

• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
• Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
• The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

MYSTERY/THRILLER:

• An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
• Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
• Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
• American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
• Conviction by Denise Mina
• Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham
• Lady In The Lake by Laura Lippman
• Red Metal by Mark Greaney and H. Ripley Rawlings IV
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

ROMANCE:

• Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
• Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
• Get A Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• Meet Cute by Helena Hunting
• Pretty Reckless by L. J. Shen
• The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
• The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
• Well Met by Jen DeLuca
• Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center
• The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez

SCI–FI/FANTASY/HORROR:

• The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek by Rhett McLaughlin & Link Neal
• Full Throttle by Joe Hill
• The Institute by Stephen King
• Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
• Middle-Game by Seanan McGuire
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• Recursion by Blake Crouch
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
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GRAPHIC NOVELS:

• Die by Kieron Gillen
• I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation by Natalie Nourigat
• Nancy: a Comic Collection by Olivia Jaimes
• Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists by Mikki Kendall
• Grace: The Jeff Buckley Story by Tiffanie DeBartolo
• The Twilight Man by Koren Shadmi
• Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman
• Bury the Lede by Gaby Dunn

HISTORICAL FICTION:

• City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
• The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
• Meet Me In Monaco: a Novel Of Grace Kelly's Royal Wedding by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
• Dragonfly by Leila Meacham
• The Huntress by Kate Quinn
• The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
• Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand

NONFICTION:

• Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
• Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff & Georgia Hardstark
• Furious Hours by Casey Cep
• She Said by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
• Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
• Parkland by Dave Cullen
• Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
• Dear Girls by Ali Wong

BIOGRAPHY:

• The Contender: the Story of Marlon Brando by William J. Mann
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Me by Elton John
• Inheritance: a Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
• From Scratch: a Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke
• Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
• Home Work: a Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews with Emma Walton Hamilton
• In the Dream House: a Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
• More Than Enough: Claiming Space For Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) by Elaine Welteroth
• Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: a Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

HISTORY:

• The British are Coming: the War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
• The Pioneers: the Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough
• Midnight in Chernobyl: the Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
• Spearhead: an American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II by Adam Makos
• Say Nothing: a True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
• A Woman of No Importance: the Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
• How to Hide an Empire: a History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
• The Five: the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
• Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond

TELEVISION:

• Good Omens
• Stranger Things
• Chernobyl
• Barry
• Succession
• Killing Eve
• Veep
• Billions
• The Good Fight
• The Handmaid’s Tale
• The Kominsky Method
• Mrs. Wilson
• Castle Rock

FILM:

• Avengers: Endgame
• John Wick 3
• Apollo 11
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
• The Farewell
• Spiderman: Far From Home
• Rocketman
• US
• First Man
• Tolkien
• A Star is Born
• Shoplifters
• The Old Man and the Gun
• Long Shot