It’s time for the first round of picks of some of 2018’s best books from the first five or six months of the year — in advance of Amazon’s “best so far” package across multiple categories, due later this month. Looking across the lists from iBooks, EW, Christian Lorentzen at Vulture, and Time (including nonfiction), Lisa Halliday’s…
Best of
January Bookseller Picks
Amazon joins the Indie Next list and Library Reads in naming Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists as their spotlight pick for January, and Karen Cleveland’s Need to Know is their featured debut. (Benjamin’s novel and A.J. Finn’s thriller The Woman In the Window — also on Amazon’s January list — are both featured in our free Buzz…
The Final, Definitive, Very Best of the Best Books of 2017
With 62 votes counted we’re ready to present the final and ultimate (despite some newcomers) aggregation of selective “best of 2017” book lists from all over — including major publications of all kinds, but also retailer and library selections, award nominees, and more. (As usual, we have updated the previous post with all of our…
Closing In On the Very Best of the Best Books of 2017 Lists
Right on schedule, 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 54 votes counted at this point (or 33 more than Quartz…
People, Etc.
Harper Children’s has created an new internal editorial team focusing on teen and middle grade fiction. Erica Sussman is editorial director of the team, joined by Kristen Pettit, Emilia Rhodes, Alice Jerman, Elizabeth Lynch and Stephanie Stein. Rachel Zugschwert will join Lerner Publishing Group as group marketing director starting January 1. She was most recently director…
The Best of the Best Books of 2017, to Start
The NYT has published lists of their individual critics’ favorite books of the year, from veteran Dwight Garner, newcomer Parul Seghal, the departing Jennifer Senior, and even/still Janet Maslin. Maslin writes, “Mine is the strangest of these lists. I left The Times’s staff two and a half years ago, but apparently I won’t go away….