For the ninth year, we’re tracking selective “best books of 2016” lists from all over to provide a comprehensive, aggregated view of the consensus picks for the year’s very best titles. As usual, we’re drawing on newspaper, magazine and online publications and critics, but also count lists from booksellers, librarians, major awards nominees and more. With today’s GoodReads picks and other highlighted lists included, we have almost 35 “votes” in so far — which is a little more than half the expected total, and this is usually right around when we start issuing our semi-weekly aggregations. As we have already mentioned informally, […]
