Happy New Year!
2019 wasn’t my best reading year: I’ve read 48 books and my average Goodreads rating was 3,4. Usually, each year I have about 6 or 7 five stars reads while this year (if I’m not including re-reads), I only had 3 of them.
Because of that, my list of favorites is going to be even shorter than usual. However, even if it is short, I really enjoyed reading these five books and I highly recommend them, 5 stars reads or not, they’re all great books. 😀
Anyways, here are my favorite books of 2019!
Some of them were immediate favorites like The Black Tides of Heaven, This is How You Lose the Time War or New Suns. I fell in love with them only after a couple of chapters or stories.
For the other two, it took me some time to realize that I was constantly thinking about them. Europe at Dawn is a fantastic conclusion to Dave Hutchinson’s Fractured Europe Sequence and while it’s not my favorite of the quartet (I think Europe in Autumn will never be dethroned), it’s still a great book. Before Mars is a book that I wasn’t expecting to put on this list at first. I really enjoyed reading it but, I didn’t expect it to stay with me during the entire year like it did. It is really is an amazing book and I think it handles complicated issues very well.
I don’t have reviews for most of the books (yet), but they are coming so I will update this list as they are posted.
Reviews
- Before Mars by Emma Newman (Planetfall #3) – Review
- Europe at Dawn by Dave Hutchinson (Fractured Europe Sequence #4)
- The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang (Tensorate #1)
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl
What were your favorite reads of 2019? 😀
The Curious SFF Reader 
I loved Before Mars as well, such a good series😁
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48 is still fantastic! I really need to read those JY Yang books.
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Hooray – I loved Europe at Dawn, which seemed to me to pull the whole series together in a satisfying way. I look forward to rereading the Sequence back to back at some point and seeing how the fractures fare.
…and oh gosh yes, Time War. My heart got a heck of a workout with that one!
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Yes, it’s a great conclusion but I think at first, I was expecting too much out of it ? I don’t know if it makes sense but I love this series so much that I wanted it to be even more perfect than it was xD But now that I’ve finished it months ago, I can see that it was a fantastic conclusion! 🙂
And omg, Time War is an emotional ride, I don’t usually cry while reading but I cried THREE times haha, my heart, my poor heart… And the prose was gorgeous!
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Feeeeeeeeeeeee-eeeeeeeeelings 😉
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Happy new year! I’ve only read two of your top five, I enjoyed Before Mars but I’m afraid Time War was a bit too weird for me!
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Ah yes, it’s very out there but the love story blew me away. I’m not the biggest fan of romance in books but I cried 3 times while reading :’)
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I have both Time War and New Suns on the TBR pile – good to know you enjoyed them. I am heartened. 😀
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They’e both great!! 😀 You’re in for a treat!
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