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Here are the subjects of all posts in the [info]theguardianbook journal in December, 2019.
1st
7:00a[info]theguardianbookCrime in Progress; A Warning; Inside Trump’s White House – review
8:00a[info]theguardianbookThe best books of 2019 – picked by the year’s best writers
9:00a[info]theguardianbookThe Five by Hallie Rubenhold review – profoundly sad
11:00a[info]theguardianbookTehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey – review
1:00p[info]theguardianbookGrandmothers by Salley Vickers review – a gran for all seasons
2nd
7:00a[info]theguardianbookNow We Have Your Attention by Jack Shenker review – the politics of the street
9:00a[info]theguardianbookTime Lived, Without Its Flow by Denise Riley review – captive to the present tense
10:00a[info]theguardianbookPoem of the week: The Thrush by Edward Thomas
2:07p[info]theguardianbookNobel prize for literature hit by fresh round of resignations
3:00p[info]theguardianbookTips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
4:13p[info]theguardianbookEvelyn Waugh letters shed light on his abandoned first novel
8:00p[info]theguardianbookBad sex award twosome: prize goes to Didier Decoin and John Harvey
3rd
7:00a[info]theguardianbookYours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 – review
9:00a[info]theguardianbookThe best thrillers of 2019 – review roundup
10:35a[info]theguardianbookWhen imagining our future, what can sci-fi teach us? – books podcast
12:40p[info]theguardianbookChoose your book of 2019 for us to read this December
1:04p[info]theguardianbookMilan Kundera's Czech citizenship restored after 40 years
2:39p[info]theguardianbookJoe Hammond, author of acclaimed motor neurone disease memoir, dies aged 50
7:52p[info]theguardianbookWhat we learned from Free, Melania, the salacious new book about the first lady
4th
6:00a[info]theguardianbookBarbara Taylor Bradford on love, tragedy and ambition: ‘I’ve always had a backbone of steel’
7:29a[info]theguardianbookThe Eighth Life (for Brilka) by Nino Haratischvili review – a landmark epic
9:00a[info]theguardianbookHostile Environment by Maya Goodfellow review – how immigrants became scapegoats
11:30a[info]theguardianbookTwas the Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay review – more matchless stories from A&E
1:03p[info]theguardianbookTop 10 books about comedy | Louis Barfe
1:12p[info]theguardianbook‘Another author’: outrage after BBC elides Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker win
5th
7:30a[info]theguardianbookThe Fortress by Alexander Watson review – a marvellous first world war study
9:00a[info]theguardianbookNudibranch by Irenosen Okojie review – weird and wild short stories
11:24a[info]theguardianbookAutofiction at war: why 'revenge novels' are taking off in Norway
11:59a[info]theguardianbookThe Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers review – overfamiliar comedy
3:08p[info]theguardianbookNew book claims Albert Camus was murdered by the KGB
6th
12:01a[info]theguardianbookBritain has closed almost 800 libraries since 2010, figures show
7:30a[info]theguardianbookImpeach by Neal Katyal review – the case against Donald Trump
8:58a[info]theguardianbookSuncatcher by Romesh Gunesekera review – coming of age in Sri Lanka
10:00a[info]theguardianbookThomas Keneally: ‘Does anyone write a good book at 83? Well, I think I have’’
11:00a[info]theguardianbookLisa Taddeo on her bestseller Three Women: 'I thought I was writing a quiet little book'
12:08p[info]theguardianbook'Gross hypocrisy’: Nobel heavyweight to boycott Peter Handke ceremony
5:03p[info]theguardianbook'Ignorant questions': Nobel winner Peter Handke refuses to address controversy
7th
7:00a[info]theguardianbookSpace invaders: the best books about interstellar arrivals
8:00a[info]theguardianbookEngland's last roar: Pankaj Mishra on nationalism and the election
9:00a[info]theguardianbookLady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner review – a bestselling glimpse of the royals
10:00a[info]theguardianbookGina Miller: how I won against the government – and what you can do next
10:58a[info]theguardianbookThe best recent poetry collections – review
11:00a[info]theguardianbookSister act: how Little Women has come of age on the big screen
2:00p[info]theguardianbookMichael Lewis: ‘Don’t bet against the US. It has an incredible capacity for self-reinvention’
5:00p[info]theguardianbookWithout women the novel would die: discuss
6:00p[info]theguardianbookChristmas book clinic special – our experts’ gift ideas
6:00p[info]theguardianbookLucy Ellmann: ‘We need to raise the level of discourse’
7:40p[info]theguardianbookNobel winner Peter Handke avoids genocide controversy in speech
8th
7:00a[info]theguardianbookThe best graphic novels of 2019
7:30a[info]theguardianbookEndland by Tim Etchells review – brilliantly horrible short stories
9:00a[info]theguardianbookFrost Fair by Carol Ann Duffy review – icy perfection from a curator of cold
9th
6:00a[info]theguardianbook'Sometimes the world goes feral' – 11 odes to Europe
7:00a[info]theguardianbookA Radical Romance by Alison Light review – a tender but oblique memoir
9:00a[info]theguardianbookThe inside story of Germany’s biggest scandal since the Hitler diaries
10:00a[info]theguardianbookPoem of the week: The Flea by John Donne
12:14p[info]theguardianbookAivali: A Story of Greeks and Turks in 1922 by Soloup review – a moving graphic novel
2:48p[info]theguardianbookBook prize judge alleges co-jurors did not finish reading shortlist
3:00p[info]theguardianbookTips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
5:25p[info]theguardianbookKate Figes obituary
10th
7:00a[info]theguardianbookThe Pulse Glass by Gillian Tindall review – hidden histories and heirlooms
10:00a[info]theguardianbookReading group: Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli is our book for December
10:00a[info]theguardianbookIdiot Wind by Peter Kaldheim review – a road trip across the US
10:53a[info]theguardianbookEscaping Westboro Baptist Church: Megan Phelps-Roper's journey – books podcast
12:22p[info]theguardianbook'They' beats 'the' to 2019's word of the year
3:06p[info]theguardianbook'Ridiculously hard': how Neil Gaiman wrote a poem for refugees from 1,000 tweets
5:00p[info]theguardianbookProtests grow as Peter Handke receives Nobel medal in Sweden
11th
7:30a[info]theguardianbookThe Lost Books of Jane Austen by Janine Barchas review – how Austen's reputation has been warped
9:00a[info]theguardianbookExquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy review – writing in the margins
9:58a[info]theguardianbookFatherhood by Caleb Klaces review – lyrical, unsettling debut
10:58a[info]theguardianbookIan McKellen by Garry O’Connor review – from Richard III to Gandalf
12:11p[info]theguardianbookHate baby showers and dinner parties? Sarah Knight wants you to say no
1:40p[info]theguardianbookTop 10 dinner parties in fiction
12th
6:00a[info]theguardianbookStart a fire: the best books about political awakenings
7:30a[info]theguardianbookThe Far Right Today by Cas Mudde review – an alarming new mainstream
8:57a[info]theguardianbookDon’t Look at Me Like That by Diana Athill review – a reissued gem
9:58a[info]theguardianbookThe Scoundrel Harry Larkyns by Rebecca Gowers review – murder by Edward Muybridge
11:00a[info]theguardianbookNeal Katyal: ‘A second term for Donald Trump could fundamentally destabilise our democracy’
13th
7:00a[info]theguardianbook'I thought you’d like to read this': the etiquette of gifting books
7:30a[info]theguardianbookBaron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai review – mesmerisingly strange
8:58a[info]theguardianbook97,196 Words by Emmanuel Carrère review – essays from a French superstar writer
9:58a[info]theguardianbookSinéad Gleeson: ‘I don’t think reading offers comfort – a connection, yes’
10:00a[info]theguardianbookThe best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup
14th
6:00a[info]theguardianbookTrump/Netanyahu: Israel, America and the rise of authoritarianism-lite
7:30a[info]theguardianbookNess by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood review – forces of nature
7:58a[info]theguardianbookThe naked truth: how to write a memoir
8:58a[info]theguardianbookA Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin review – the ‘secret game that won the war’
11:00a[info]theguardianbookThe Street: the 1940s African American thriller that became a huge bestseller
1:00p[info]theguardianbookJudith Kerr remembered by Lauren Child
4:00p[info]theguardianbookMary Warnock remembered by Onora O’Neill
15th
7:00a[info]theguardianbookLiz Hyder: ‘I feel like I’m in a weird cheese dream’
11:59a[info]theguardianbookThe best children’s books of 2019 for all ages
4:00p[info]theguardianbookToni Morrison remembered by Walter Mosley
16th
7:00a[info]theguardianbookThe nine lives of Cats: how poetry became a musical, then a film …
8:58a[info]theguardianbookProfessional confessionals: why are memoirs about work topping the charts?
11:04a[info]theguardianbookPoem of the week: The Corn-Stalk Fiddle by Paul Laurence Dunbar
11:57a[info]theguardianbook'Real ones know!' Stormzy namechecks Malorie Blackman and Jacqueline Wilson
12:01p[info]theguardianbookTips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
2:35p[info]theguardianbookGeorge RR Martin opens bookshop next to his cinema in Santa Fe
17th
8:00a[info]theguardianbookAll-nighters and sideways ideas: readers' books of the year
10:00a[info]theguardianbookHow Lost Children Archive estranges the idea of aliens
10:30a[info]theguardianbookBen Lerner and Meena Kandasamy on autofiction – books podcast
2:11p[info]theguardianbookImpeach Trump for 'flagrant abuses of power', say US historians
5:51p[info]theguardianbookFar Side creator Gary Larson launches website with promise of new work
18th
7:30a[info]theguardianbookThe Penguin Book of Oulipo review – writing, a user's manual
9:00a[info]theguardianbookEvery Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz review – Turkey’s violent legacy
10:54a[info]theguardianbookTop 10 novels about adultery | Douglas Kennedy
11:59a[info]theguardianbookMarch of the Lemmings by Stewart Lee review – making Brexit funny
1:22p[info]theguardianbookBook People collapse plunges small publisher Galley Beggar into crisis
2:01p[info]theguardianbookThe Buried by Peter Hessler review – life, death and revolution in Egypt
3:00p[info]theguardianbookBrowsing the dream: why I paid £400 to run a bookshop for a week
19th
7:00a[info]theguardianbookSnails, whales and spooky tales: the best books on TV this Christmas
7:30a[info]theguardianbookThe Case for the Green New Deal by Ann Pettifor; On Fire by Naomi Klein – review
12:08p[info]theguardianbook‘I exposed the dirty laundry of gay life’: The Lure, the thriller that shocked America
2:48p[info]theguardianbookTS Eliot would not have minded Cats reviews, says his estate
5:31p[info]theguardianbook'In 24 hours, people gave us £40,000': how readers rescued a small press
20th
7:30a[info]theguardianbookThe Tempest by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill – it’s been a blast
9:00a[info]theguardianbookNew Model Island by Alex Niven review – an answer to London's power?
10:00a[info]theguardianbookAdam Kay: ‘The Lord of the Rings is a load of indecipherable nonsense'
12:00p[info]theguardianbookThe best recent crime novels – review roundup
12:57p[info]theguardianbook'It's full of one-liners': Armando Iannucci on why we should all read David Copperfield
21st
7:30a[info]theguardianbookGenius and Ink by Virginia Woolf review – essays on ‘how to read’
9:00a[info]theguardianbookIn Love With George Eliot by Kathy O’Shaughnessy review – an ardent homage
12:00p[info]theguardianbookStalin and the Fate of Europe by Norman M Naimark review – the postwar struggle for power
22nd
7:00a[info]theguardianbookThe Enchantments of Mammon by Eugene McCarraher review – an epic blend of history, prophecy and pole
8:04a[info]theguardianbookMe, Mum and Dogger: the return of a children’s classic
12:00p[info]theguardianbookJeanette Winterson: ‘I didn’t see this coming’
23rd
7:30a[info]theguardianbookShame on Me by Tessa McWatt review – on race and belonging
10:00a[info]theguardianbookPoem of the week: Not for That City by Charlotte Mew
10:00a[info]theguardianbookCold Warriors by Duncan White review – when novels were weapons
1:46p[info]theguardianbookWatchmen is by far the best adaptation of the comic – but should fans watch it?
3:00p[info]theguardianbookTips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
24th
7:00a[info]theguardianbookOur favourite books of 2019, and the most exciting books of 2020 – books podcast
7:30a[info]theguardianbookShadow City by Tarun Khan review – walks through Kabul
8:30a[info]theguardianbookHunger, hellfire and fizz: the best books about feasting
10:00a[info]theguardianbook'I don't think he'd get the jokes': why is John Lithgow writing poetry about Donald Trump?
11:00a[info]theguardianbookLost Children Archive is daring, but not always convincing
12:00p[info]theguardianbookYellow: The History of a Colour by Michel Pastoureau review – a sensual celebration
25th
12:00a[info]theguardianbookThe Observer Christmas puzzles special: literary picture quiz
7:30a[info]theguardianbookMrs Delany: A Life by Clarissa Campbell Orr review – an 18th-century late bloomer
9:00a[info]theguardianbookTop 10 books about loneliness | Fay Bound Alberti
9:00a[info]theguardianbookBody Tourists by Jane Rogers review – holidays for dead souls
26th
7:29a[info]theguardianbookChances Are by Richard Russo review – the role of luck in American lives
8:59a[info]theguardianbookLoop by Brenda Lozano review – a glorious tapestry of ideas
10:00a[info]theguardianbookFrom The Big Short to Normal People: the books that defined the decade
10:01a[info]theguardianbookThis Way to Departures by Linda Mannheim review – compassionate short stories
27th
7:30a[info]theguardianbookThe God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim review – an ambitious debut
9:00a[info]theguardianbookGalileo’s Error by Philip Goff review – a new science of consciousness
28th
7:30a[info]theguardianbookThe Enigma of Clarence Thomas by Corey Robin review – a superb study
8:59a[info]theguardianbook‘It’s as if I’m falling from a 50-storey building’: a year without sleep
10:58a[info]theguardianbookKiley Reid: ‘Some black women say: "I don’t want to explain anything." I’m not one of them'
4:23p[info]theguardianbookGender, race, climate and the New Nature Writing
6:00p[info]theguardianbookRaymond Antrobus: ‘In some ways, poetry is my first language’
6:00p[info]theguardianbookBook clinic: can you suggest funny reads from female authors?
29th
7:00a[info]theguardianbookThe Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle, edited by Saski
9:00a[info]theguardianbookFiction to look out for in 2020
9:00a[info]theguardianbookNonfiction to look out for in 2020
11:00a[info]theguardianbookThe Boundless Sea by David Abulafia review – a fascinating voyage of discovery
11:04a[info]theguardianbookAlasdair Gray, influential Scottish writer and artist, dies aged 85
30th
7:00a[info]theguardianbookCan food be socially just and cheap? The best books on sustainable eating
7:00a[info]theguardianbookBraised Pork by An Yu review – a bizarre psychological odyssey
10:00a[info]theguardianbookPoem of the week: Charms by WH Davies
1:09p[info]theguardianbookFrightening and downright filthy: why everyone must read Alasdair Gray
3:00p[info]theguardianbookTips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
31st
7:00a[info]theguardianbookThe Death of Jesus by JM Coetzee review – a barren end to a bizarre trilogy
12:00p[info]theguardianbookBestselling books of 2019: cleaning guides and diet books hit big
1:00p[info]theguardianbookSandman to Hark! A Vagrant: the best comics of the decade
2:00p[info]theguardianbookReading group: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is our book for January
4:44p[info]theguardianbookA romance novelist spoke out about racism. An uproar ensued



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