The New York Times Book Review editors picked their favorite books of the year, selecting a number of titles already on our early aggregated list of consensus “best of the year” books (and 3 NBA nominees): All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill Euphoria, by Lily King Family Life, by Akhil Sharma Redeployment, by Phil Klay Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, by Roz Chast On Immunity, by Eula Bliss Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life, by Hermione Lee The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert Thirteen Days In September, by […]
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Time Adds YA to their Best of the Year Roster
Time magazine published their annual top 10 lists and added a third books list, covering young adult books: Top 10 YA 1. We Were Liars, E. Lockhart 2. Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson 3. I’ll Give You the Sun, Jandy Nelson 4. Belzhar, Meg Wolitzer 5. Half a King, Joe Abercrombie 6. Althea & Oliver, Cristina Moracho 7. Skink—No Surrender, Carl Hiaasen 8. No One Else Can Have You, Kathleen Hale 9. The Retribution of Mara Dyer, Michelle Hodkin 10. This One Summer, Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki Top 10 Fiction 1. The Secret Place, Tana French 2. The Bone […]
Goodreads Winners, the NYT’s Notable Books, and More 2014 Bests
Lots of new lists landed today. Goodreads announced their Best Books of the Year, based on over 3 million member votes. E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars was the most searched for book on the site this year, but Rick Riordan’s latest in the Heroes of Olympus series was the top vote-getter of all the category winners, with over 63,000 votes. (Cassandra Clare’s latest Mortal Instruments book was the number two, with over 53,00 votes.) The winners: Landline by Rainbow Rowell (fiction) Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (mystery & thriller) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (historical fiction) […]
More Bests, for December and 2014
In monthly lists, Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz is Amazon’s Spotlight Pick, and Viv Albertine’s memoir Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys is their Featured Debut. The rest of the list: When Books Went to War, Molly Guptill Manning Here, Richard McGuire The Strange Library, Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen Spare Parts, Joshua Davis Becoming Richard Pryor, Scott Saul Skylight, José Saramago Empire of Cotton, Sven Beckert The Boston Girl, Anita Diamant At Costco, Pennie’s Pick for December is The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, by Andrew Sean Greer. For a full selection of over 45 notable December releases, see our […]
Washington Post’s Ten Best of 2014
The Washington Post announced a slew of Best of 2014 lists, including the top 50 in fiction and nonfiction, along with notable standouts for romance, mystery-thriller, science fiction & fantasy, and graphic novels. Their top ten books include Booker winner Richard Flanagan’s THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH and National Book Award nominees Emily St. John Mandel and John Lahr. The list: A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James Fourth of July Creek, Smith Henderson The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel Being Mortal, Atul […]
Holiday Picks From Barnes & Noble; Governor General’s Awards; and More
The Governor General’s Literary Award announced winners in a number of categories this morning, with THE BACK OF THE TURTLE by Thomas King taking the prize for fiction and THE END OF ABSENCE by Michael Harris winning for nonfiction. Barnes & Noble announced its top books for the holiday season in fiction, nonfiction, young adult, and children’s, choosing from “personal recommendations and customer favorites”: Fiction All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett Gray Mountain by John […]