The New York Times Book Review posted its 100 notable books for 2018, and they will announce their 10 Best Books list on November 29. Separately, the New York Public Library introduced a new Best Books of 2018 package of their own, covering books for kids, teens and adults. (Selections include Patrick deWitt’s novel, also excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer collection and available for download.) Their adult list picks: If They Come for Us: Poems, by Fatimah Asghar French Exit, by Patrick deWitt Woman World, by Aminder Dhaliwal Barracoon, by Zora Neale Hurston Heart Berries, by Terese Marie Mailhot I’ll Be […]
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Time Magazine’s Best Books of the Year
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.) Fiction Asymmetry, by Lisa Halliday An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh Circe, by Madeline Miller Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan There There, by Tommy Orange Gun Love, by Jennifer Clement Florida, by Lauren Groff The Overstory, […]
The Washington Post’s Top 10 Books
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 Library Book, By Susan Orlean The Line Becomes a River, By Francisco Cantú On Desperate Ground, By Hampton Sides One Person, No Vote, By Carol Anderson Fiction The Maze at Windermere, By Gregory Blake Smith The Overstory, By Richard Powers A Place For Us, By […]
Westover’s Educated Tops Amazon’s Best of 2018 List
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 Leif Enger, and A.J. Finn, all excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2018 collections. Amazon’s top 20, in numbered order: Educated, by Tara Westover Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan Indianapolis, by Sara Vladic Elevation, by Stephen King The Line Becomes a River, […]
Best Books of the Year So Far, So Far
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 Asymmetry made three lists, while these titles appear on two lists: The Sparsholt Affair, by Alan Hollinghurst Barracoon, by Zora Neale Hurston The Recovering, by Leslie Jamison The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, by Denis Johnson An American Marriage, Tayari Jones The Mars Room, by […]
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 Books January sampler as well.) The rest of Amazon’s top picks, presented in a new graphic format, are: The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, Denis Johnson Here Is Real Magic, Nate Staniforth Oliver Loving, Stefan Merrill Block The Road Not Taken, Max Boot The Windows […]