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r/YAlit · 2019

Most-mentioned books in r/YAlit during 2019

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/YAlit within the published source unit for 2019. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Books ranked
1,971
Tracked mentions in 2019
Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions
Cover of Six of Crows #1

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo

Kaz Brekker recruits five other criminal teenagers for a heist inside a supposedly impenetrable ice fortress.

341 in 2019
Cover of A Court of Thorns and Roses #2

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas

Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, gets dragged into the faerie lands as payment, and spends five books choosing a court.

297 in 2019
Cover of Throne of Glass #3

Throne of Glass

Sarah J. Maas

A teenage assassin is pulled out of a slave-labor camp and entered in a kingdom's brutal death-match tournament to win her freedom.

218 in 2019
Cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone #4

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

J. K. Rowling

An eleven-year-old orphan gets a letter, a train platform that shouldn't exist, and a scar that makes him famous for something he can't remember.

124 in 2019
Cover of The Hunger Games #5

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

A teenage girl volunteers to fight to the death on live television in place of her younger sister, then spends three books resisting everyone who wants to make her a symbol.

77 in 2019
Cover of The Bear and the Nightingale #6

The Bear and the Nightingale

Katherine Arden

A girl in medieval Russia keeps the household spirits fed with scraps of bread while a priest convinces her village those same spirits are demons.

70 in 2019
Cover of The Night Circus #7

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Two magicians raised from childhood for a duel to the death disguise the fight as a circus that only opens after dark.

63 in 2019
Cover of Uprooted #8

Uprooted

Naomi Novik

A village girl is taken by an ancient wizard as tribute every ten years, until the year his choice turns out to be a mistake he can't undo.

56 in 2019
Cover of Spinning Silver #9

Spinning Silver

Naomi Novik

A moneylender's daughter out-bargains a winter king to save her family, in a Rumpelstiltskin retelling with a Jewish heroine at its center.

53 in 2019
Cover of The Lightning Thief #10

The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan

A twelve-year-old with ADHD and dyslexia finds out both are demigod traits, then gets ten days to stop a war between Greek gods he didn't know were real.

49 in 2019
Cover of Northern Lights #11

Northern Lights

Philip Pullman

A girl crosses into other worlds with a truth-telling compass and a soul that lives outside her body as a shape-shifting animal.

46 in 2019
Cover of Red Rising #12

Red Rising

Pierce Brown

A low-caste miner surgically altered to pass as the ruling elite infiltrates the academy that killed his wife, planning to burn the system down from inside.

45 in 2019
Cover of Mistborn: The Final Empire #13

Mistborn: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson

A street thief who can swallow metal and burn it for power gets recruited into a heist crew whose actual target is the immortal emperor who's ruled for a thousand years.

44 in 2019
Cover of The Priory of the Orange Tree #14

The Priory of the Orange Tree

Samantha Shannon

A queen who cannot risk a female heir, a dragon rider guarding a strait, and an outlawed mage protecting her in secret all move toward the same sleeping fire-breather.

39 in 2019
Cover of Circe #15

Circe

Madeline Miller

Exiled to an empty island for turning a rival into a monster, a minor goddess spends immortality perfecting the one power the gods never bothered to master.

34 in 2019
Cover of The Song of Achilles #16

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Patroclus, exiled and overlooked, grows up shadowing Achilles and follows him to Troy already knowing how the war ends for them.

33 in 2019
Cover of A Game of Thrones #17

A Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin

Ned Stark's family gets pulled into a succession war for the Iron Throne while an unkillable winter creeps south.

27 in 2019
Cover of The Hating Game #18

The Hating Game

Sally Thorne

Two rival executives who despise each other are stuck sharing an office, until the hating starts feeling like something else entirely.

26 in 2019
Cover of The Lord of the Rings #19

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien

A gardener and three friends carry a cursed ring across a continent at war, because the only way to destroy it is to walk it into the volcano that forged it.

23 in 2019
Cover of The Poppy War #20

The Poppy War

R. F. Kuang

A dark-skinned war orphan tests into an elite military academy, discovers she can channel a fire god, and burns her way toward genocide.

23 in 2019
Cover of The Way of Kings #21

The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson

A bridgeman slave carries spears through a warzone he's not allowed to fight in, until he decides to become the soldier no one will follow.

22 in 2019
Cover of Pride and Prejudice #22

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

A prideful landowner insults a woman at a dance, then spends the rest of the book making it up to her.

17 in 2019
Cover of The Lies of Locke Lamora #23

The Lies of Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch

A conman runs cons on the nobility of a canal city built from alchemical glass, until a rival gang decides to burn his crew down to the ground.

17 in 2019
Cover of The Name of the Wind #24

The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

A legendary hero narrates his own rise from orphaned street kid to feared arcanist over three days, except Rothfuss never wrote day three.

17 in 2019
Cover of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine #25

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

A friendless payroll clerk who eats the same ready-meal every night gets invited to office happy hour once, and it slowly wrecks her sealed-off routine.

14 in 2019