The Best Books I Read in 2019

In no particular order:

• INRI, by Raúl Zurita
• Lessons in Stoicism, by John Sellars
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk
• The Poem Is You, by Stephanie Burt
• The Uninhabitable Earth, by David Wallace-Wells
• Discourse on Colonialism, by Aimé Césaire
• Voronezh Notebooks, by Osip Mandelstam
• Answer to Job, by Carl Jung
• The World Goes On, by László Krasznahorkai
• No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, by Greta Thunberg
• An Untouched House, Willem Frederik Hermans
• The Empire and the Five Kings, by Bernard Henri-Lévy
• Washington's Farewell, by John Avlon
• This Land Is Our Land, by Jedediah Purdy
• Latest Readings, by Clive James
• Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, by Roy Scranton
• Of Gods and Minds, by James W. Heisig
• The Reactionary Mind, by Corey Robin
• My Sister, the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, by Martin Hägglund
• The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• One Long River of Song, by Brian Doyle
• I Am God, by Giacomo Sartori
• The Ends of the World, by Peter Brannen (audiobook)
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Unnamable Present, by Roberto Calasso