r/suggestmeabook · 2019
Top books in r/suggestmeabook during 2019
Ranked by mentions in r/suggestmeabook threads dated 2019. Useful for spotting what r/suggestmeabook was picking up or putting down that year.
#1 Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
A street thief gets recruited into a heist crew plotting to overthrow a god-emperor who has ruled unchallenged for a thousand years.
#2 Circe
Madeline Miller
An exiled witch on a deserted island turns men into pigs and spends three thousand years deciding what she actually wants.
#3 The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
An orphaned actor's son claws his way toward becoming a legend by the University's fire-and-sympathy magic — a story stuck at book two for over a decade.
#4 The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
A suicidal bridge slave assigned to the war camp's deadliest crew starts hearing storms answer when he gives orders.
#5 The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
Patroclus follows Achilles into the Trojan War, narrating the years it takes to watch the boy he loves become the killer a prophecy always promised.
#6 The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
A framed sailor rots in an island prison for fourteen years, escapes with a fortune, and spends the rest of the book collecting on every debt of vengeance.
#7 Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
An orphaned governess falls for her brooding employer, then finds out exactly what he's been hiding in the attic.
#8 The Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien
A gardener, a burglar's heir, and seven others walk a piece of jewelry to a volcano because destroying it is the only way to stop a war.
#9 The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
A woman searches a dying continent for the daughter her husband stole, while the world ends again on schedule.
#10 The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
In Nazi Germany, a girl who can barely read steals books from bonfires and burglarized shelves while Death keeps count of who dies next on her street.
#11 Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A broke ex-student murders a pawnbroker to prove a theory about great men, then spends 500 pages failing to live with it.
#12 The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
A burglar with no interest in adventure gets talked into robbing a dragon by a wizard who never quite explains the plan.
#13 A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Four friends build lives together in New York while one of them quietly refuses to let anyone near his own past.
#14 Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet spends five sisters, one entailed estate, and one insufferably proud man learning she judged him wrong.
#15 Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
Six criminals with nothing in common but debt attempt an impossible heist inside the world's most guarded fortress.
#16 11/22/63
Stephen King
A substitute teacher steps through a diner pantry into 1958 with one job: stop Lee Harvey Oswald before Dallas.
#17 Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
A six-year-old is drafted into a war academy that trains him to command a fleet, and he doesn't find out what he actually did until it's over.
#18 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Earth gets demolished for a hyperspace bypass minutes after a man's house is demolished for a road, and his best friend turns out to be an alien with a towel.
#19 The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
A farm boy's village burns in one night, and the Aes Sedai who saves him says the Dark One marked him before he could walk.
#20 The Martian
Andy Weir
A botanist gets left for dead on Mars and has to grow food on a planet that wants him gone, one duct-taped fix at a time.
#21 Storm Front (The Dresden Files)
Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only wizard listed in the phone book, takes a double-murder case that ordinary police work can't touch.
#22 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
A socially isolated office worker who talks to no one and drinks alone every weekend gets pulled into an unlikely friendship that saves her life.
#23 East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Two families retrace Cain and Abel across three generations in California's Salinas Valley, and one brother begs God to make him good.
#24 Red Rising
Pierce Brown
A miner's son fakes his way into the ruling class's brutal war-games academy to bring down the system that executed his wife.
#25 To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
A small-town Alabama lawyer defends a Black man falsely accused of rape while his children watch the town's conscience get tested.