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Best Picks Fionaccl's Top Ten Fiction 2019

What a great year for fiction! Some of the best of my reads this year. Many of these have won or been nominated for awards in 2019.

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  • "Time wounds all heals." The unput-downable sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.
    Book, 2019London : Chatto & Windus, 2019. — FICTION
  • Another awesome novel about the power of the mind against the power of the government. From the master.
    Book, 2019London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2019. — MYSTERY
  • Beautifully poignant, liltingly written first novel, winner of this year's Dublin Literary Award.
    Book, 2017London : Chatto & Windus, 2017. — FICTION
  • Great fun - sci-fi about the race to be the first woman in space. Set during an alternate 1950s after a meteorite has struck the Earth; making space colonisation imperative. Winner of this year's Nebula Award.
    Book, 2018New York : Tom Doherty Associates/Tor, 2018. — SCIENCE FICTION
  • A gripping thriller set in Maketu, New Zealand. Who is Evie? Is the man she is travelling with hiding her, or keeping her prisoner? Winner of this year's Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel.
    Book, 2018Auckland, New Zealand : Hachette New Zealand, 2018. — FICTION
  • Ayoola has all the looks, all the luck, and her big sister Korede, to clean up her mess. Will Korede stand by her sister when she sets her fatal sights on the man she loves? Winner of this year's Anthony Award for Best First Novel.
    Book, 2018London : Atlantic Fiction, 2018. — MYSTERY
  • Good Omens

    the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

    Gaiman, Neil, 1960-
    The funniest apocalypse ever from the pens of beloved, now deceased Terry Pratchett and the colorfully imaginative Neil Gaiman. The forces of good and evil (in the forms of an Angel and a Demon) compete to bring about the end of the world. Or do…
    Book, 2006New York : HarperTorch, 2006. — FANTASY
  • This book is as beautiful as its cover. Part fantasy, part thriller, you won't be able to put it down until you find out what happened to the first owner of the Glass Woman, and what will happen to the woman who owns it now.
    Book, 2019London : Michael Joseph, 2019. — HISTORICAL
  • No list is complete without robots? You won't feel complete without this robot - who surpasses humans so well he is deemed a threat to manhood... <3
    Book, 1999Bantam Books, 1999. — SCIENCE FICTION