LITERARY HUB’S BEST BOOKS OF 2016
The staff of Literary Hub offer their choices of the year’s best books in a list vastly different from typical best-seller lists.
The Top 10 Library Stories of 2016
OK, this isn’t a best books list, but it IS a book-related summary of the year’s events.
Great Reads
An interactive guide to The Seattle Times’ best books recommendations from the past few years.
10 OVERLOOKED BOOKS BY WOMEN IN 2016
This piece starts out with the reasons why a list of outstanding books written by women is necessary.
The Year in Reading
From The New York Times:
In this season of giving, we asked some notably avid readers — who also happen to be poets, musicians, diplomats, filmmakers, novelists, actors and artists — to share the books that accompanied them through 2016.
THE 60 BEST BOOK COVERS OF 2016, AS CHOSEN BY DESIGNERS
this year, we had a healthy quantity of beautiful, inventive, arresting, unforgettable book cover designs, many of which deserve recognition.
BEST OF 2016
I’ve included a couple of these in earlier installments, but here’s the complete list of the year’s best books in the following categories:
- poetry
- comics
- economics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
The 10 Best Movie Adaptations of 2016
Critic Lisa Rosman lists her favorite book-to-film adaptations of the year.
The 11 Best Poetry Books Of 2016
From BuzzFeed
13 of Off the Shelf’s Favorite Book Recommendations from 2016
Off the Shelf is made possible by a small group of passionate readers who love nothing more than discovering fantastic books and sharing them with Off the Shelf readers. We recommend books that move us to laughter and tears—and everything in between. It gives us great pleasure to offer you a collection of our favorite single-title recommendations from 2016.
The folks at Off the Shelf offer lists of recommended books on particular topics throughout the year. They have recommended all of these books during 2016, but not all of these books were published this year.
BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
An earlier list of best books lists included the top five books of the year as voted by Book of the Month members. Here, BOTM announces the overall winner.
THE YEAR’S BEST OVERLOOKED BOOKS, ACCORDING TO BOOKSELLERS
A bit of a different twist on a best books list.
A Year in Reading: 2016
From The Millions comes a round-up of the year’s reading from a great host of writers, including Tana French, Richard Russo, Annie Proulx, and Megan Abbott.
The 30 Best Books of 2016
Compiled by Daniel Ford on Writer’s Bone.
The best books of 2016 list you get when you combine 36 “Best Books of 2016” lists
Yes, you read that right:
By combining 36 different qualitative “best books” lists by everyone from the New York Times to The Telegraph to a smattering of celebrities (full list of lists here), Quartz has created the Ultimate Authoritative Unimpeachable Top 20 Books of 2016.
Get A Global Perspective With 5 Of The Year’s Best Books In Translation
I don’t know about you, but I don’t read enough literature translated from other languages. Why is this important?
There’s a great quote by Haruki Murakami: “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” This, of course, is two-fold, because it also means that if you want to think more broadly and gain a larger understanding of the world, you will seek out lesser known books, and from different places.
THE BIGGEST LITERARY STORIES OF THE YEAR: THE FINAL 5
The folks at Lit Hub present the top five literary news stories of 2016. If you jump into the link clicking maze, you can see the other 25 news stories of the year, too.
Top Crime Books of 2016
This is the lead-in page to individual lists of the year’s five best books by various folks at Crime Fiction Lover.
© 2016 by Mary Daniels Brown
