Best Of: NYT, Target, Apple

The New York Times named its 10 best books of the year, with five fiction and five nonfiction picks:

Fiction
The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray
Chain-Gang All-Stars, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Eastbound, by Maylis de Kerangal
The Fraud, by Zadie Smith
North Woods, by Daniel Mason

Nonfiction
The Best Minds, by Jonathan Rosen
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, by Kerry Howley
Fire Weather, by John Vaillant
Master Slave Husband Wife, by Ilyon Woo
Some People Need Killing, by Patricia Evangelista

Target named its Books of the Year:

Adult: The First Ladies, by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

YA: Their Vicious Games, by Joelle Wellington

Children’s: Once There Was, by Kiyash Monsef

Children’s: In Every Life, by Marla Frazee

And Apple released its lists of the top fiction and nonfiction books and audiobooks of the year.