In years past, I’ve had a linky at my Saturday Review of Books for end of the year and beginning of the year book lists. I love book lists, and I especially love it when people start posting about their favorite books of the year or the books they intend to read next year or any other yearly list that summarizes and informs us about your reading life in 2019.

So, this year there’s no linky, but I do plan to add a link in this post to all the lists I find , and I do want to see your list. So leave me a comment, and I’ll link to your book list for 2019. Book lists are just the best.

Russell Moore’s Favorite Books of 2019. I love Mr. Moore and his thoughts on his favorite books of the year are especially great. I haven’t actually read any of the books he suggests, but I’m going to add at least a couple of them to my TBR list: Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson and Biloxi by Mary Miller. The Common Rule by Justin Earley also sounds good.

Jared Wilson: My Top Ten Books of 2019. Jared’s #10 and #1 both sound interesting:  Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring and  On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts by James K. A. Smith.

Real Simple: The Best Books of 2019. Lots of good books with a few sentences about each one. I found several that sounded interesting.

The Literary Edit: 13 Captivating Classics to Add to Your Reading Pile.

BBC: 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. The BBC is starting out on a one-yearproject to explore the 100 most influential English language novels written over the past 300 years. I love lists like this one, not necessarily the best or the most read, but the rather the novels that influenced the world and made Western civilization, especially the English-speaking portion of it, what it is today.

Anxious Bench, Our Favorite Books of the Past Year.

Book Chase’s Ten Favorite Nonfiction Titles of 2019. Sam Sattler recommends several that look good, but the one that caught my interest was Furious Hours by Casey Cep, about Harper Lee and a bizarre true crime story that she was following and hoping to write about. It might be kind of depressing, but I think I’ll check it out.

Deb at Readerbuzz is trying something new with Mood-Boosting Books. It sounds like a great idea, but none of the books she has listed appeals to me. If I want to mood boost, I read Wodehouse. Any other suggestions? What books would you consider “mood-boosting”?

The Book Muse: Best Books of 2019.

Kaitlyn Bouchillon: My 10 Favorite Books of 2019. Kaitlyn’s selections all look good, but one that caught my eye was a fiction book called Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes because it’s partly about a rock collection. I have one of those myself in my front yard. Rocks for remembrance.

Jason Kanz: Top 10 Books–2019. Jason is a neuropsychologist and a Christian, so his list is a bit different from my normal fare. But intriguing.

Modern Mrs. Darcy: My favorite books of 2019. I love Modern Mrs. Darcy and her podcast, What Should I Read Next? And her favorites list for 2019 includes one of my past favorites: Kindred by Octavia Butler. It also has several that I would like to check out in 2020. Altogether, a very good list.

Linda Stoll: My Favorite Books in 2019. Glorious Weakness: Discovering God in All We Lack by Alia Joy sounds as if it would be worth a look. As several others on this list.

JonesSchooling: The Best 12 Books I Read in 2019. Lisa says it has been a fantastic reading year for her.

https://mbird.com/2019/12/mockingbirds-favorite-books-2010-2019/ Mockingbird’s Favorite Books: 2010-2019. This list is the favorites of the decade, (which, by the way, can start and end in any year you choose. A decade is ten years. THE decade is the ten years a person is talking about.)

Ashes Books and Bobs: Favorite Books of 2019.

Blue Willow Bookshop: The Best Books of 2019. I see from this list that Ruta Sepetys has a new book out: The Fountains of Silence, set in post-World War II Spain. It sounds wonderful.

Kevin DeYoung: Top 10 Books of 2019. These are all books published in 2019 that Mr. DeYoung found to be “a strong combination of thoughtful, useful, interesting, helpful, insightful, and challenging.”

Trevin Wax: My 10 Favorite Reads of 2019. The first book on this list, Christianity for Modern Pagans by Peter Kreeft, is a thought by thought commentary on Pascal’s Pensees, and it’s a book I thought through a few years ago. Highly recommended.

Laurie’s Lit Picks: Best of 2019. I already have The Feather Thief and The Dutch House by Ann Patchett on my radar. Maybe a few more from this list will rise to the top, too.

Glynn Young at Faith, Family, Friends has Best Books I’m Not Recommending for Christmas. Glynn likes to exert no pressure by “not recommending” his favorites for the year, but I’m still going to look at some of his non-recommendations, especially A Debt of Death by Jonathan Dunsky, Defiant Joy: The Remarkable Life and Impact of G.K. Chesterton by Kevin Belmonte, and Adjustments by Will Willingham. Glynn also “not recommends” Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson. That one keeps coming up. It’s as if I ought to read it next.

Jesus Creed Books of the Year 2019 (Scot McKnight).

Robin at A Fondness for Reading is Looking Back at 2019.

Puss Reboots has several favorites lists: Favorite Mysteries of 2019. Favorite Diverse Reads of 2019. Favorite Canadian books of 2019. Favorite book releases of 2019. Blogger Sarah Sammis’s review of Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts really caught my interest.

John Wilson: A Year of Reading 2019 (at First Things). From this list, I definitely want to read Andrew Klavan’s Another Kingdom. And I thought I had already seen and noted the book about Jim Elliot and his fellow missionaries and their martyrdom in Ecuador, God in the Rainforest by Kathryn T. Long. Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War by Matthew Avery also looks good.

Lisa notes has several books I want to read in her post, Top Books I Recommend of 2019, including What Is a Girl Worth by Rachel Denhollander, The Nickel Boys by Colin Whitehead, The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, and The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah.

Barbara at Stray Thoughts: Books read in 2019. Top Ten books read in 2019.

The Silver of His Fining: Top Reads in 2019. These favorites mostly sound like easy gentle reads to be interspersed among the books for this year. Sometimes I need a book to just be good without being too challenging.

I’m still working on my favorites of 2019 list, but this will keep you busy until I get there. If you have a “best books of” or “favorites of” list at your blog, please leave a link in the comments. Or just share some of your 2019 favorite reads in the comments.