The 2019 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List

The Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List was created in 2009 with the goal of highlighting outstanding fiction that is simply “a pleasure to read.” Each year 25 outstanding fiction titles are selected by a committee of nine Texas Librarians. More about the Lariat List can be found at this link: https://txla.org/tools-resources/reading-lists/lariat/current-list/

Authors from current and past lists are invited to speak at the Lariat List Adult Fiction Author Program held at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference, which will be in April, 2019, in Austin, Texas.

The TLA Lariat List Committee voted last Friday, and below are the titles chosen to be part of the 2019 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List. The Lariat List will be officially announced in January, 2019, but here's a sneak peak! I nominated the titles highlighted in yellow. Hopefully all readers will be able to find a good book that suits them from this list of Fiction books published in 2017 and 2018:

1.     The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea

2.     Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson

3.     Flying at Night by Rebecca L. Brown

4.     Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

5.     Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett

6.     Semiosis by Sue Burke

7.     Star of the North by D.B. John

8.     The Broken Girls  by Simone St. James

9.     Heads of the Colored People  by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

10.  There, There by Tommy Orange

11.  The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stu Turton

12.  Dear Mrs. Bird  by A. J. Pearce

13.  Trail of Lightning  by Rebecca Roanhorse

14.  How to Stop Time  by Matt Haig

15.  The Last Time I Lied  by Riley Sager

16.  Anatomy of a Scandal  by Sarah Vaughn

17.  Less by Andrew Sean Greer

18.  Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

19.  The Changeling  by Victor LaValle

20.  Sing Unburied Sing by Jessmyn Ward

21.  Need to Know by Karen Cleveland

22.  Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan

23.  The Darkest Time of Night by Jeremy Finley

24.  The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

25.  Indigo Girl  by Natasha Boyd

Happy Reading, y'all!!