Amazon issued their list of the 20 best books of 2017 so far on Wednesday afternoon, along with a package of selections across 12 categories. (Our preview advice was correct on Roy, Saunders, Hamid, Gay, and Grann, and though Tinti did not make Amazon’s top picks). Their top 20 (including 3 asterisked titles, featured in…
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The Very Best of the Best Books of 2016
A couple more notable “best of 2016” lists may still trickle in (USA Today tends to run at the very end of the year) but with a wealth of lists already out — we have counted 65 in all — it’s time for our final, comprehensive aggregation of the very best books of the year. (We…
The Best of Buzz Books
We’re closing in our final, aggregated lists of the very best of the best books of 2016. But first, it’s worth a special shout out to the 25 titles receiving at least one major “best of 2016” vote that were first featured long before publication in one of our two Buzz Books 2016 adult samplers….
Updated Best of the Best Books of 2016 Lists
We have our second update on the competition for the consensus best books of the year, and as naturally happens at this point in the aggregation, there is enough data for full “top 10” lists for both fiction and nonfiction. With a little over 50 votes counted at this point, Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad has…
The News Editor’s Favorite Books for 2016
Our tally of the Best of the Best Books of 2016 already points to a strong consensus in both fiction and nonfiction and as it so happens, I, too, count Colson Whitehead‘s much-lauded The Underground Railroad among my favorites of this year. It is not only the novel we needed to better grapple with our…
Delaney Tops January Library Reads List
J.P. Delaney’s suspense thriller The Girl Before tops the January 2017 Library Reads list. Books on this list that also appear on the January Indie Next list include: The Second Mrs. Hockaday, by Susan Rivers The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden The Dry, by Jane Harper Books for Living, by Will Schwalbe The…