Amazon announced its list of the Best Books of 2019 So Far, with the recently-published City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (Riverhead) as its overall top pick. Also on the list are several titles excerpted in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler: The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides (Celadon); Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb (HMH); On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong; and The Guest Book, by Sarah Blake (Flatiron). Usually fewer than half of Amazon’s top 20 So Far make it to the top of their end-of-year Best Books list; last year 7 of […]