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Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of The Year So Far

June 7, 2022
By Erin Somers

Barnes & Noble announced their 10 best books of the year so far. (For what it’s worth, a year ago only one of their mid-year “so far” picks — Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner — also made it onto the chain’s best books of the year lists in December.): Book Lovers, by Emily […]

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Correction

January 10, 2022
By Michael Cader

Our apologies: Friday’s list celebrating the very best books of 2021 got an important credit wrong. Honoree Fanonne Jeffers’ novel of the year The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois was edited by Erin Wicks and published by Harper.

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For the Record: The Very Best of the Best Books of 2021

January 7, 2022
By Michael Cader

Per our earlier counts, it came down to the wire in tabulating the consensus very best books of 2021 and fittingly, works of nonfiction and fiction tied for Book(s) of the Year: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers and Empire of Pain, by Patrick Radden Keefe shared the top honor. […]

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The Best of the Best Children’s Books of 2021

December 21, 2021
By Michael Cader

Once again, we are able to include children’s literature in our annual process of tabulating the consensus Best of the Best Books of the year. Drawing on a slightly smaller group of 18 selective sources in all, this year the data yielded more middle grade picks than in the past (including a nonfiction book, Gary […]

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The Top 10 Best of the Best Books of 2021 So Far

December 18, 2021
By Michael Cader

As we continue to tabulate the consensus very best books of 2021, the roster has remained one of the most interesting and competitive we have seen in years of aggregating. Distinctions are fine, with all of the top titles receiving similar totals of “picks” from across the lists we monitor. At the very top, works […]

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The Next of the Best of the Best Books of 2021

December 9, 2021
By Michael Cader

Here is the updated look at our aggregation-in-process of the year’s very best books. With over 40 “votes” counted from a variety of highly selective lists, awards and more, the general consensus is taking shape, though both the fiction and nonfiction lists reflect a variety of books finding favor. Unlike in many recent years, there […]

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