The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019: 9780358093169

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 is a groundbreaking anthology of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the guidance of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki.

This diverse collection showcases the best writing of the last twelve months, featuring comics about war and butts, stories about pizza-delivery women, family, dolls giving birth, anthropomorphic lakes, and more.

With a foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Johnson, Robin Coste Lewis, Garth Greenwell, Nathaniel Russell, Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Andrea Long Chu, Deborah Taffa, Renée Branum, and others, this anthology is a must-read for anyone looking to discover the most revealing, honest, and astonishing writing of 2019.