Best of

Time Magazine named its top ten books of the year in fiction and nonfiction, with Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room as its number one fiction pick, and John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood topping their nonfiction selections. (Also on the fiction list is Ottessa’s Moshfegh’s latest novel, excerpted and available in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler.)…

The Washington Post named their top books of the year. (In case you’re wondering, over the past three years an average of four books from their top 10 wind up making our authoritative, aggregated Very Best of the Best Books of the Year list.) This year’s picks: Nonfiction Good and Mad, By Rebecca Traister The…

Tara Westover’s memoir Educated — which was Amazon’s favorite book halfway through the year — also tops their Best Books of 2018 list, just announced. (True to form, only six other titles from their June “best so far” picks made it to the year-end list.) Also on the list are featured Buzz Books by Ottessa Moshfegh and…

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…

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…

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…