Amazon’s Best Books of the Year

Amazon named its Best Books of the Year, with The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride in the top spot. (Barnes & Noble recently made the title their Book of the Year as well.) The full package includes picks across 18 categories. Just under half (eight titles) of the overall top 20 appeared on their “Best So Far” list back in June. The top 20 picks (titles included in our Buzz Books samplers are noted with a *):

1. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride
2. The Berry Pickers, by Amanda Peters
3. The Art Thief, by Michael Finkel
4. Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros
5. King, by Jonathan Eig*
6. Wellness, by Nathan Hill
7. The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese*
8. Holly, by Stephen King
9. Elon Musk, by Walter Isaacson
10. Small Mercies, by Dennis Lehane
11. Hello Beautiful, by Ann Napolitano
12. The Wager, by David Grann
13. Let Us Descend, by Jesmyn Ward
14. Age of Vice, by Deepti Kapoor*
15. The Future, by Naomi Alderman*
16. Bright Young Women, by Jessica Knoll
17. Pomegranate, by Helen Elaine Lee
18. The Mystery Guest, by Nita Prose
19. Flee North, by Scott Shane
20. All the Sinners Bleed, by S.A. Cosby