The books that shaped 2019

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Greta Thunberg

The Starless Sea

Erin Morgenstern

Time For Lights Out

Raymond Briggs

The Five

Hallie Rubenhold

That Reminds Me

Derek Owusu

Ness

• Robert Macfarlane

• Stanley Donwood

The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories

The Boy, The Horse, The Fox and The Mole

Charlie Mackesy

A Wild Child's Guide to Endangered Animals

Millie Marotta

The Poetry Pharmacy Returns

William Sieghart

Hundred: What You Learn in a Lifetime

Heike Faller (and others)

The Penguin Classics Book

Henry Eliot

The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two

• Philip Pullman

• Christopher Wormell

Underland

Robert Macfarlane

The Testaments

Margaret Atwood

Girl, Woman, Other

Bernardine Evaristo

The Body

Bill Bryson

Talking to Strangers

Malcolm Gladwell

The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two

• Philip Pullman

• Christopher Wormell

It's Not OK to Feel Blue (and other lies)

Scarlett Curtis

The Penny Dreadfuls: Volume 3

David Reed

The Giver of Stars

Jojo Moyes

We Are The Beaker Girls

• Jacqueline Wilson

• Nick Sharratt

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)

Philippa Perry

The Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch

• Tom Fletcher

• Shane Devries

Sulwe

• Lupita Nyong'o

• Vashti Harrison

My Book With No Pictures

B. J. Novak

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball (Book 14)

Jeff Kinney

Fa-la-la-la-llama

Little Leaders: Exceptional Men in Black History

• Vashti Harrison

• Vashti Harrison