EW book critics David Canfield and Leah Greenblatt break down their top 10 reads of 2019.
10.The Needby Helen Phillips
Is it a hothouse domestic drama?
Come for the candlepin bowling, stay for some of the wildest death scenes ever put to paper.
13.Inlandby Tea Obreht:What Obreht pulls off in her second novel’s conclusion is pure poetry.
Luiselli initiates a reckoning in her new novel that pulses with urgency and lingers with timelessness.
But God, does it help.
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