2019 Winter Reading List... and Other Good Stories

It's time to shift gears from required reading to desired reading, or at least get ready to. Whether you're a bookworm or beach reader, these "best of 2019" book lists offer stacks of reading options this season. Considering expanding your reading palate for 2020? Add joining a book group like Doin It In the Nook, signing up for the Book of the Month Club, or embrace your joy of words in 2020 with Benjamin Dreyer's "STET! Dreyer's English: A Game for Language Lovers, Grammar Geeks, and Bibliophiles" (release date July 2020). Whatever reading genre you gravitate towards (calling all Avengers fans), or ways you like to consume your words, there's a book for everyone. Happy Reading!

For Bookworms That Can't Wait

• Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2020, Read It Forward

• The 20 Must-Read Books Of 2020 (Yes, We’re Calling It Now) Bustle

• The most anticipated books of 2020, shereads

Book Lists To Eat Up

• The 78 Best Book Covers of 2019

• The Ten Best Books About Food of 2019, The Smithsonian

• A Holiday Gift Guide, Samin Nosrat

• 41 of the Year’s Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books, New York Magazine

• The 10 cookbooks you’ll want to give — and get — this holiday, Los Angeles Times

• The Best Holiday Cookbooks to Help You Celebrate, Chowhound

• Holiday Books, New York Times

Lists to find the books you won't be able to put down

• The Best Books of 2019, New York Public Library

• NPR’s Book Concierge, NPR

• 100 Notable Books of 2019, New York Times

• The Best Books of 2019, The New Yorker

• The Best Books, BookRiot

• The best books of 2019, Bookish

• If You Only Read a Few Books in 2019, Read These, Medium, Ryan Holiday

• Our Best Books of 2019, Indigo

• CPL Best of the Best Books 2019, Chicago Public Library

• The Best Books of 2019 (So Far), The Thrillist

• The 10 Best Books of 2019, Slate

• Maureen Corrigan's Favorite Books Of 2019: Here Are 10 Unputdownable Reads, NPR Maureen Corrigan

• The best books of 2019 – picked by the year’s best writers, The Guardian

Not-So-Secret Favorites

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, Samin Nosrat (Author), Wendy MacNaughton (Illustrator)

Dreyer's English, Benjamin Dreyer

Tell Me More, Kelly Corrigan

The West Anderson Collection, Matt Zoller Seitz (Author), Michael Chabon (Introduction)

Still in the college sleuthing mode? Look no further:

• Top 4 "Must Reads" When Starting the College Journey

• HeyAdmissionsMom: Real Talk from Reddit

• The 2019 Fall Book List

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