1 - Architect of the Mind by Drew Backenstoss
2 - Totally Free Will by Mark Chandaue
3 - Maximum Entertainment 2.0 by Ken Weber

1. Perverse Magic by Gerald Deutsch
2. Truth Fables by Ben Blau

1) The Magic Rainbow - Juan Tamariz

2) Interpreting Magic - David Regal

Both of these are nothing short of exceptional

I'm going to help out a few magicians during this tough time by giving away six copies of my book. It is a random drawing - here's a link to what you need to do:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=......&theater

Be well. And PLEASE SHARE.

David

Wow seems that I will join FB...

Thanks David for this kind and generous offer!

Best Wishes and take care!
Cristóbal

Hey Folks! We're under a week to go. Be sure to get your votes in by the end of the month.

Jake

1 Magic Rainbow
2 Interpreting Magic
3 Tesseract

So hard this year. Honourable mentions to:

The Illusioneer
The Joy of Magic
Pure Imagination

Linds

1. Secret Language Vol. 1 by Helder Guimaraes
2. A Secret has two faces by A. Bandit
3. The Magc Rainbow by Tamariz

1. Totally Free Will - Mark Chandaue
2. Architect of the Mind - Drew Backenstoss
3. Which hand - Timon Krause

1. Totally Free Will - Mark Chandaue
2. Which hand - Timon Krause
3. Architect of the Mind - Drew Backenstoss

1. Interpreting Magic

Interpreting Magic - David Regal

Perverse Magic by Gerald Deutsch 

1) The Magic Rainbow - Juan Tamariz

2) Interpreting Magic - David Regal

3) Magic for Young Lovers - The Jerx

Voting is now closed. Time to tally up the results.

Jake

Official Results

2019 was a great year for great books. We had a multitude of worthy candidates. I was worried we would have a tie with four or more books, the voting was so close, but one book rose to the top at the very end and won by one vote.

The 2019 Magic Café Book of the Year Award goes to:

Interpreting Magic by David Regal!!

I own this book and it is a very admirable choice. Congratulations David Regal!


Here are the rest of the results:

5 Votes
Architect of the Mind by Drew Backenstoss
The Magic Rainbow by Juan Tamariz

4 Votes
Mythology Codex by Phil Smith
Totally Free Will by Mark Chandaue
Which Hand Method & Philosophy by Timon Krause

3 Votes
Perverse Magic: The First Sixteen Years by Gerald Deutsch

2 Votes
The Buena Vista Shuffle Club by Matt Baker
Magic is My Weed by Steve Spill
Maximum Entertainment 2.0 by Ken Weber

1 Vote
Life’s a Beach by Gary Jones
The Illusioneer by Carlos Vaquera
Pure Imagination by Andi Gladwin, Scott Robinson, and John Campbell
Tesseract by Mike Powers
Truth Fables by Ben Blau

Notes:
Pierre Cardinlemon's vote did not count due to having less than 50 posts
Secret Language by Helder Guimaraes is deferred until the 2020 Book of the Year thread

Jake

Excellent result this is a great book.

I just saw this - how nice! Thank you all for your kind comments. The second printing of the book has arrived in California, but is being delayed at the port by the virus situation. To those of you who may be frustrated that your favorite shop does not have a copy - they will have copies pretty soon (and we want to support the shops, both physical and non-physical).

I have some copies of the first printing available, but if you live outside the U.S. it will be much, much cheaper to purchase the book over there due to Murphy's Magic excellent service.

And the two most important things:

1) Stay safe, calm, and kind.

2) There were many lovely books put out this year. I was proud to be in their company and I urge you to build your library with their work as well.

Thanks again. This made my day.

David

ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to travel plans changing in relation to current events, some new First Printing copies of Interpreting Magic have made their way to Europe without me. For this reason I will give a discount on the book to FOUR EUROPEANS, and send the book postpaid anywhere in Europe for 50 euros.

I can only do this four times.

If you would like to take advantage of this offer, do NOT order from my site. You need to contact me directly at david@davidregal.com

Thanks,

David

Four people have come forward, so the books are spoken for. Stay well! xo