Amazon posted their annual mid-year “best books of the year so far” lists on Tuesday. Topping their picks is Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl (their April “featured debut”). The rest of their top 20 (including 6 titles previewed in our first Buzz Books sampler of the year*) overall features: The Girls, by Emma Cline Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley* When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi The Gene, by Siddhartha Mukherjee Barkskins, by Annie Proulx Valiant Ambition, by Nathaniel Philbrick* Grunt, by Mary Roach The Nest, by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney* The Fireman, by Joe Hill* LaRose, by Louise Erdrich* Girls & Sex, by Peggy Orenstein Evicted, by Matthew Desmond I’m Thinking of […]