We’re rounding up the Best Books of 2019 across all genres and categories – scroll down to see our favourites in literary fiction!
The Testaments
By Margaret Atwood
The perfect compliment to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments gives readers three perspectives from inside and outside of Gilead, Margaret Atwood’s imagined Post-American theocracy. Absorbing, witty, disturbing and expertly told, Atwood’s fiction serves as an urgent warning for our troubled times.
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Lanny
by Max Porter
Devastating, beautiful and totally unique, Max Porter’s Lanny oozes darkness and revels in language. Full of anarchy, humour and humanity, it’s the perfect read for fans of Lincoln in the Bardo.
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The Weekend
by Charlotte Wood
The story of three remarkable women, their dead best friend’s beach house and one very old dog. Charlotte Wood’s brevity and precision are showcased like never before in this evolution of her hilarious and caustic style.
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Damascus
by Christos Tsiolkas
In this masterpiece of imagination, Christos Tsiolkas immerses readers in the life of St. Paul and the origin of the Christian faith. While this is a radical departure from his contemporary fiction, the same themes still shine – class, masculinity, sexuality, family, shame and violence. A book to dive head first into!
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The Yield
by Tara June Winch
We’ve waited a long time for a new novel from Tara June Winch, and with The Yield she delivered a story of language, dispossession and the power of everything that endures. This is the book that Australia needs.
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The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
A perfectly crafted modern American story, The Dutch House is a novel that will stay with you long after reading. It might even change your life. We’re yet to meet a reader who hasn’t adored it.
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There Was Still Love
by Favel Parrett
Written as a love letter to Favel’s grandparents and set between two cities a world apart, There Was Still Love is a small novel of tremendous humanity. You’ll read it in one sitting and you’ll cry your eyes out.
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Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
In a series of intertwined vignettes of the lives of female and non-binary people of colour living over a century of modern British history, Evaristo offers readers sensitive reflections on race and gender, as well as warm, relatable and often humorous depictions of family, friendships, love and hostility. A Booker-winning masterpiece.
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Olive, Again
by Elizabeth Strout
The character of Olive Kitteridge is an American treasure and this new novel of ageing, family, loss, loneliness and contradiction is a triumph. Read and re-read.
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
A love letter to Turkey’s conflicted, cosmopolitan capital and the innumerable, wonderful people who live there in various states of oppression, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World is the story of a senseless murder, six incredible people and an entire troubled nation crammed into one small and mighty burst of imagination.
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About the Contributor
Ben Hunter
Ben is Booktopia's dedicated fiction and children's book specialist. He spends his days painstakingly piecing together beautiful catalogue pages and gift guides for the website. At any opportunity, he loves to write warmly of the books that inspire him. If you want to talk books, find him tweeting at @itsbenhunter
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