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The Best Books We Read Last Year

2020/1/14
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Being on vacation and flying to get to vacation—whether you're going to laze on the beach for days or zip around Southeast Asia on the back of a moped—are some of the only long, interrupted times we have these days to read. So, as you prep for your OOO for 2020, we tapped Jynne Dilling Martin, Riverhead Books' associate publisher, and Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation, to give you a rundown of the best books they read in 2019 for a little literary packing list info.

Find a full transcript of the episode and links to all of the books we mentioned here: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-best-books-we-read-last-year-women-who-travel-podcast)

While many other books were discussed, here are the 11 favorites we suggested in this episode:

- Vernon Subutex 1) by Virginie Despentes

- The Yellow House) by Sarah M. Broom

- Severance) by Ling Ma

- The Library Book) by Susan Orlean

- Normal People) by Sally Rooney

- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead) by Olga Tokarczuk

- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine) by Gail Honeyman

- Fleishman Is in Trouble) by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

- Disappearing Earth) by Julia Phillips

- How Much of These Hills Is Gold) by C Pam Zhang

- Transcendent Kingdom) by Yaa Gyasi

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