Amazon announced its Best Books of the Year So Far, with Abi Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice (Dutton) topping the list, and a full package of titles across 12 categories on the site. (Daré was a monthly Amazon pick in February but not their “spotlight” selection, though the novel was the Read with Jenna book club title that month.) Two of our Buzz Books selections made the list: Saint X, by Alexis Schaitkin (Celadon) and Sharks in the Time of Saviors, by Kawai Strong Washburn (MCD). Their top 20, in ranked order:
1. The Girl with the Louding Voice, by Abi Daré (Dutton)
2. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, by Robert Kolker (Doubleday)
3. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: A Hunger Games Novel, by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
4. Deacon King Kong, by James McBride (Penguin)
5. Pretty Things, by Janelle Brown (Random House)
6. Writers & Lovers, by Lily King (Grove)
7. Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In, by Phuc Tran (Flatiron)
8. The City We Became, by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
9. Oona Out of Order, by Margarita Montimore (Flatiron)
10. The Mercies, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Little, Brown)
11. The Jane Austen Society, by Natalie Jenner (St. Martin’s)
12. Apeirogon, by Colum McCann (Random House)
13. Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters, by Dominique Crenn with Emma Brockes (Penguin)
14. Things in Jars, by Jess Kidd (Atria)
15. Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country, by Sierra Crane Murdoch (Random House)
16. Saint X, by Alexis Schaitkin (Celadon)
17. Sharks in the Time of Saviors, by Kawai Strong Washburn (MCD)
18. A Burning, by Megha Majumdar (Knopf)
19. Almond, by Won-pyung Sohn (Harper Via)
20. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, by Max Brooks (Del Rey)
Topping the children’s list was Black Brother, Black Brother, by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Little, Brown Children’s).