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2019

Introducing this year’s winner!

The cover of the winning book of Book of the Year

This story won a special place in our readers' hearts - and our Book of the Year award-winner shelf.

Check out the other award-worthy finalists.

They earned their spot as the top books of 2019. Congrats!

  • A Woman Is No Man
  • Recursion
  • The Silent Patient
  • This Tender Land
The Lolly Statue that is awarded to the Book of the Month Book of the Year recipient

Hello, Lolly.

Meet Lolly, our beloved Book of the Year statuette. She’s named after the first-ever Book of the Month from 1926, Lolly Willowes, a book about witches, which happens to be very trendy right now.