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Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2019

Over the last two months, we asked you to share both your favorite book that you read with your book group and your favorite book that you read outside your group in 2019.

The results are in! Below are the top 10 selected titles in each category.

Therese Anne Fowler, author of A Good Neighborhood

In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who’s headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans --- a family with new money and a secretly troubled teenage daughter --- raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace. With little in common except a property line, these two families quickly find themselves at odds: first, over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers.