I use the Goodreads rating system, and in 2019 I had no books that earned five stars — “it was amazing” — but I had 12 that earned four stars — “really liked it:”
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
- They May Not Mean To, But They Do by Cathleen Schine
- All Passion Spent by Vita-Sackville West
- Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
- Northern Borders by Howard Frank Mosher
- A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- Now I Can See The Moon by Alice Tallmadge
- Standing In Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin
- The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
