Best of 2017
Best Graphic Novels of 2017
- The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew
Hardcover, 320 pages, Published March 2016 by Pantheon (first published May 2015), ISBN13: 9781101870693, Edition Language: English. Literary Awards:
Singapore Literature Prize for English Fiction (2016), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia, Best Publication Design, and Best Writer/Artist (for Sonny Liew) AND nominated for Best Graphic Album—New, Best Coloring (for Sonny Liew), and Best Lettering (for Sonny Liew) (2017), Singapore Book Award for Book of the Year and Best Book Cover Design (2016)
- Waltz With Bashir: A Lebanon War Story by Ari Folman
Paperback, 128 pages Pub February 17th 2009 by Metropolitan Books (first published 2008) ISBN13: 9780805088922
- Hostage by Guy Delisle
Hardcover, 436 pages, Published April 25th 2017 by Drawn and Quarterly (first published September 16th 2016), Original Title: S’enfuir - Récit d'un otage, ISBN13: 9781770462793.
Best Nonfiction of 2017
Hardcover, 224 pages, Published November 14th 2017 by Simon Schuster, ISBN13: 9781476726151
Hardcover, 400 pages Pub June 13th 2017 by Viking ISBN13: 9781101980965
Best Fiction of 2017
Hardcover, 512 pages, Pub Mar 7th 2017 by Other Press (first published 2016), OrigTitle: Störst av allt, ISBN13: 9781590518571, Lit Awards: Glass Key Award (2017)
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Hardcover, 259 pages Pub Jan 24th 2017 by Viking (first pub October 20th 2016) ISBN13: 9780525427360 Literary Awards Man Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2017), Costa Book Award for Novel (2016), Walter Scott Prize (2017), Costa Book of the Year (2016)You can buy this book here:
Paperback, 240 pages, Pub February 7th 2017 by Europa Editions Orig Title: To Name Those Lost, ISBN13: 9781609453497, Literary Awards: Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction (2015), Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction (2016), Setting: TasmaniaYou can buy this book here:
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Hardcover, 368 pages, Pub: February 14th 2017 by Random House ISBN13: 9780812995343, Lit Awards: Man Booker Prize (2017), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2017), Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2017), Gordon Burn Prize Nominee for Longlist (2017)
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Hardcover, 1104 pages, Pub October 17th 2017 by Penguin Press ISBN13: 9781594204876, Lit Awards: Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2017)
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Best of 2016
Best Autobiography of 2016
- March (Books 1,2,&3) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Paperback, 128 pages Published August 13th 2013 by Top Shelf Productions ISBN 1603093001 (ISBN13: 9781603093002) Edition Language English URLhttp://www.topshelfcomix.com/march Series. Harvey Awards Nominee for Best Artist (for Nate Powell), Best Graphic Album-Original, Best Biographical, Historical, or Journalistic Presentation (for John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell) (2014), Coretta Scott King Award for Author Honor (2014), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominee for Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17), Best Reality-Based Work & Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team (for Nate Powell) (2014), Robert F. Kennedy Book Award - Special Recognition (2014), Alabama Author Award - Young Adult (2016)
You can buy this book here: - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanathi
Hardcover, Deckle Edge, 230 pages Published January 12th 2016 by Random House Original Title When Breath Becomes Air ISBN 081298840X (ISBN13: 9780812988406)
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- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Hardcover, 224 pages Published November 15th 2016 by Doubleday Canada ISBN 0385689225 (ISBN13: 9780385689229)
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Best Audio of 2016
- Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Bela Shayevich
Audiobook, 23 pages
Published May 24th 2016 by Random House Audio (first published August 15th 2013) Original Title Время сэконд хэнд ISBN 1524708321 (ISBN13: 9781524708320) Prix Médicis for essai (2013), Ryszard Kapuściński Prize (2014), The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2016)
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- Dark Money by Jane Mayer
Audio CD, 17 pages Published January 19th 2016 by Random House Audio Original Title Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right ISBN 0307970655 (ISBN13: 9780307970657) Edition Language English Literary Awards Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2016)
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- Swing Time by Zadie Smith, Narrated by Pippa Bennett-Warner
Audible Audio Published November 15th 2016 by Penguin Audio Original Title Swing Time
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Best Fiction of 2016
- All That Man Is by David Szalay
Hardcover, 358 pages Published October 4th 2016 by Graywolf Press (first published September 22nd 2016) Original Title All That Man Is ISBN 1555977537 (ISBN13: 9781555977535)
You can buy this book here: - Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
Hardcover, 177 pages Published April 26th 2016 by Alfred A. Knopf Original Title Mothering Sunday ISBN 1101947527 (ISBN13: 9781101947524)
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Best Nonfiction of 2016
- Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Hardcover, 592 pages Published April 21st 2016 by Avalon Publishing Group (first published March 8th 2016) ISBN 1568584636 (ISBN13: 9781568584638)
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- Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
416 pages Published 2016 by Random House Original TitleKnown and Strange Things: Essays Edition LanguageEnglish Literary Awards PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Nominee (2017)
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Best of 2014
Best Story Collections of 2014
- Redeployment by Phil Klay
Hardcover, 288 pages, Published March 4th 2014 by Penguin Press HC, The (first published March 1st 2014) ISBN 1594204993 (ISBN13: 9781594204999) National Book Award for Fiction (2014)
You can buy this book here: - The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol
Hardcover, 261 pages, Published February 3rd 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published January 27th 2014) ISBN 0393241130 (ISBN13: 9780393241136) National Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2014), National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' Honoree (2013)
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- The Other Language by Francesca Marciano
Hardcover, 304 pages, Published April 8th 2014 by Pantheon (first published January 1st 2014) ISBN 0307908364 (ISBN13: 9780307908360)
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Best Audio of 2014
- The Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
Audio
Published March 5th 2013 by Random House Audio (first published March 1st 2013) ISBN 0385366620 (ISBN13: 9780385366625)
literary awardsJ.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography (2014), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2013)
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- The Inferno of Dante by Robert Pinsky
Audiobook Download –Translator: Robert Pinsky, Read by: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, Robert Pinsky. Unabridged ISBN 9780698186149 5:05:00 Duration 17 Jul 2014 Penguin Audio, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award given by the Academy of American Poets.
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Best Fiction of 2014
- The Children Act by Ian McEwan
Hardcover, 240 pages, Published September 9th 2014 by Nan A. Talese (first published September 2nd 2014), ISBN 0385539703 (ISBN13: 9780385539708)
You can buy this book here: - The Dog by Joseph O'Neill
Hardcover, 241 pages, Published September 9th 2014 by Pantheon (first published July 25th 2014), ISBN 0307378233 (ISBN13: 9780307378231) literary awards Man Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2014)
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Best Nonfiction of 2014
- No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal
Hardcover, 320 pages, Published April 29th 2014 by Metropolitan Books, ISBN 0805091793 (ISBN13: 9780805091793) National Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014)
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- The Third Plate by Dan Barber
Hardcover, 496 pages, Published May 20th 2014 by Penguin Press
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Best of 2013
Best Audio of 2013
- Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
MP3 CD, Published November 11th 2011 by Audible, Inc. (first published February 1st 2010) ASIN B004INSSYU
Literary Awards: Man Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2010), Costa Book Award Nominee (2010), Dioraphte Jongerenliteratuurprijs (2012), Goodreads Choice Nominee for Fiction (2010)
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
Audio CD Published 2007 by Orion (first published 2006) ISBN 0752888692 (ISBN13: 9780752888699) Literary awards: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, Exclusive Books Boeke Prize Nominee (2007)
Best Fiction of 2013
- The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Hardcover, 383 pages, Published April 2nd 2013 by Scribner ISBN 1439142009 (ISBN13: 9781439142004) Literary awards: National Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2013)
You can buy this book here: - The Tenth of December by George Saunders
Hardcover, 251 pages Published January 8th 2013 by Random House ISBN 0812993802 (ISBN13: 9780812993806) Literary awards: National Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2013), Goodreads Choice Nominee for Fiction (2013)
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Best Nonfiction of 2013
- Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
Hardcover, 464 pages Published October 1st 2013 by Knopf (first published January 1st 2013) ISBN 0307958345 (ISBN13: 9780307958341)
Literary awards: National Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2013)
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- Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Hardcover, 262 pages Published February 7th 2012 by Random House (first published January 1st 2012) ISBN 1400067553 (ISBN13: 9781400067558) Literary awards: Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (2013), National Book Award for Non-Fiction (2012), PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction (2013), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2012), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2013)
NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2012), Guardian First Book Award Shortlist Nominee (2012)
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Best of 2012
Best Fiction of 2012
- The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Hardcover, 336 pages. Published August 7th 2012 (first published August 1st 2012) by Knopf ISBN 0307959945 (ISBN13: 9780307959942).
You can buy this book here: - Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Hardcover, 261 pages Published August 30th 2011 by Bloomsbury USA ISBN 1608195228 (ISBN13: 9781608195220). National Book Award for Fiction (2011), ALA Alex Award (2012), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2012)
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Best Nonfiction of 2012
- The End of Major Combat Operations, by Nick McDonell
Paperback, 160 pages Published April 27th 2010 by McSweeney's (first published April 1st 2010)
ISBN 1934781967 (ISBN13: 9781934781968)
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- Day of Honey by Annia Ciezadlo
Hardcover, 400 pages,Published February 1st 2011 by Free Press, ISBN 1416583939 (ISBN13: 9781416583936). American Book Award (2012), James Beard Book Award Nominee for Writing and Literature (2012), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2012), Barnes and Noble - Discover Great New Writers Award for Non-fiction (2011), Books for a Better Life Award for First Book (2011)
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Best of 2011
Best Fiction of 2011
- The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
Paperback, 350 pages. Published March 12th 2002 by New York Review Books Classics (first published 1954)ISBN 0940322994 (ISBN13: 9780940322998). original title The Go-Between
You can buy this book here: - The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas
Hardcover, 304 pages Published February 8th 2011 by Harper ISBN 0062012096 (ISBN13: 9780062012098).
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Best Nonfiction of 2011
- How to Live or The Life of Montaigne, by Sarah Bakewell
Hardcover, 387 pages Published January 14th 2010 by Chatto & Windus (first published 2010)
ISBN 0701178922 (ISBN13: 9780701178925)
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- Provenance by Laney Salisbury and Ali Sujo
Hardcover, 352 pages,Published July 9th 2009 by Penguin Press HC, ISBN 1594202206 (ISBN13: 9781594202209).
original title
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
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Best of 2010
Best Fiction of 2010
- A Thousand Cuts by Simon Lelic
Hardcover, 304 pages Published March 4th 2010 by Viking Adult (first published 2010)ISBN 0670021504 (ISBN13: 9780670021505)Crime Thriller Awards - Best First Novel (2010)
You can buy this book here: - Solar by Ian McEwan
Hardcover, 287 pages. Published March 30th 2010 by Nan A. Talese. ISBN 0385533411 (ISBN13: 9780385533416). Literary Awards: Wodehouse Prize (2010).
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Best Nonfiction of 2010
- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Published May 5th 2009 by Knopf. ISBN 0307266303 (ISBN13: 9780307266309). Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2009)You can buy this book here: - The Wave by Susan Casey
Hardcover, 336 pages. Published September 14th 2010 by Doubleday (first published 2010). ISBN 0767928849 (ISBN13: 9780767928847)Hardcover, 352 pages,Published July 9th 2009 by Penguin Press HC, ISBN 1594202206 (ISBN13: 9781594202209). Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2010)
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Best of 2009
Best Fiction of 2009
- City of Thieves by David Benioff
Digital Audio (Unabridged), 8 hrs 29 minutes. Published May 20th 2008 by Blackstone Audio, Inc. (first published 2008). ISBN13: 9781433247521. Hardcover, 258 pages. Published May 15th 2008 by Viking Adult (first published 2008). ISBN 0670018708 (ISBN13: 9780670018703). ALA Alex Award (2009)
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- Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Paperback, 289 pages. Published June 1st 2006 by Europa Editions (first published 2004). ISBN 1933372133 (ISBN13: 9781933372136). Literary Awards: Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction (2005)
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Best Nonfiction of 2009
- The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
Paperback, 299 pages. Published May 8th 2006 by Harvest Books (first published 2004). ISBN 0156031566 (ISBN13: 9780156031561). Audio CD, 8 sound discs. Published October 29th 2006 by Recorded Books (first published 2004). ISBN 1428116702 (ISBN13: 9781428116702). Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2004), John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominee (2004)
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- Lost City of Z by David Grann
Hardcover, 339 pages. Published February 17th 2009 by Doubleday (NY) (first published 2009). ISBN 0385513534 (ISBN13: 9780385513531). Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2009), Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Nonfiction (2010)
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