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Every year, Barnes and Noble selects a list of the best books of the year in various categories as well as their overall best book of the year. The lists are out now, but the Book of the Year won’t be announced until November 15th. Until then, they’ve shared their finalists for you to peruse. […]
Esquire is hopping into the Best Of book list pool with Barnes & Noble and Publishers Weekly with their list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 (So Far), though the “so far” parts confuses us a bit since there are only two months left to the year. Still, we appreciate the openness to the […]
John Green, the bestselling author of books like The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska, both of which have been adapted, is releasing a nonfiction book about Tuberculosis titled Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection. The book will be published in spring 2024 by Crash Course Books, a […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. We have a fair amount of titles on all five bestseller lists this week, including two newcomers from Bob Woodward and Michael Connelly. Freida McFadden is still in the top ten across all five of the biggest bestseller […]
Wake up, babe — a new Best Books of the Year just dropped. Somehow, we’re already on to the second list like this before Halloween (B&N had the first). Listen, we’re not complaining! But also, we hope this trend doesn’t encroach into earlier in the year. Just saying. As for the list itself, there are […]
Yesterday, we explored some of the books on Barnes & Noble’s very early Best-Of lists. While B&N’s Best Books of the Year is comprised of beaucoup lists, which include different age categories and genres, we’re keeping today’s focus strictly fantasy and horror-minded. One thing we noticed about the fantasy list is that it feels very […]
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Kaveh Akbar is just as brilliant a poet as he is a novelist, and Martyr! is one of the best books I’ve ever read. Cyrus Shams, his friend Zee, Cyrus’ parents, and his uncle each get their own distinct point-of-view chapters and feel so real. Cyrus also provides excerpts of his own work […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Yen Press, your favorite publisher of Japanese manga, comics, and novels. From the renowned science fiction author Cixin Liu comes a mind-bending comic adaptation of The Three-Body Problem! A series of mysterious suicides leads a detective and group […]
Last night, the winners of this year’s Kirkus Prizes were announced in a livestreamed ceremony that took place in Manhattan. The Kirkus Prizes have been awarded since 2014 and grant each of their recipients a trophy as well as $50,000 in cash. This year’s winners were selected out of 1,444 books that were given a […]
Would it be the 2020s without a new contemporary romance by Emily Henry to look forward to? The mega bestselling author’s latest is titled Great Big Beautiful Life, and feels like it fits in a familiar groove. It’s a contemporary romance about two writers (like 2020’s Beach Read) that will, undoubtably, plumb the depths of […]