Our Favorite Books of 2019
Late at night at the Greene Street Review, minutes before launching the site, everyone on the staff came up with their favorite book they read in 2019. The list is as follows:
- Jeannie Morgenstern: “Disoriental” by Négar Djavadi
- Eugenia Yang: “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” by Truman Capote
- Sabah Parsa: “My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante
- Kristie Chan: “The Human Stain” by Philip Roth
- Minahil Salam: “If You See Me Don’t Say Hi” by Neel Patel
- Freddy Caione: “Call Me by Your Name” by André Aciman
- Jake Goldstein: “Libra” by Don DeLillo
- Hannah Goodfriend: “My Heart is an Idiot” by Davy Rothbart
- Alejandro Villa Vásquez: “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong
- Nicolette Tomci: “A Very Easy Death” by Simone de Beauvoir
- Sonali Mathur: “The God of Small Things” by Arundhati Roy
- Hannah Bub: “The Sandman Series” by Neil Gaiman
- Cora Womble-Miesner: “The Savage Detectives” by Roberto Bolaño
- Oliver Fosten: “Luck In the Shadows” by Lynn Flewelling
- Nick Fell: “Birthday” by Meredith Russo
- Parmis Parsa: “Hard Damage” by Aria Aber
- Thomas Lynch: “Bluets” by Maggie Nelson
- Alice Gelber: “The Idiot” by Elif Batuman
- Elliott Holt: “Women Talking“: by Miriam Toews