Democracy at its finest.īest List That Highlights Black Authors - The Root 3.8 million votes were cast by Goodreads users this year, with women prevailing in sixteen out of twenty categories. Praised as an “elegant and poetic journey into Leonardo da Vinci’s imaginative world,” it resonated in a year when Leonardo was quite the hot topic! Cowabunga.īest List That’s Chosen by Actual Readers and Not Critics - GoodreadsĪs we’ve mentioned before, the Goodreads Choice Awards are special in that Goodreads allows its community, made of the general book-reading and -buying public, to vote for their favorite books, making this one of the few lists that’s not curated by critics. The Awards include a wide variety of genres, including fiction, nonfiction, YA, historical fiction, fantasy, history & biography, and poetry. One of the coveted twenty spots on the WSJ’s “Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2017” list goes to our own Becoming Leonardo by Mike Lankford. Sorry not sorry, but please give us a minute to toot our own horn here. What we know is which books inspired us to think differently, to try something new, and to overall cook more.” I respect a niche list that keeps it real, and sticks to what it knows.īest List That We’re Partial to Because There’s a Melville House Book On It - Wall Street Journal And we don’t know which has the least typos. Epicurious is upfront about its mission, and gets straight to the point: “We don’t know which 2017 cookbook was the most thoroughly tested. But you know whose lists I’m inclined to trust most? The ones from a website whose main purpose is to provide recipes. There’s quite a few lists out there focused on the best cookbooks of the year. The concierge is like a game where you get to hit a lot of buttons - and since you’ll always get a book recommendation, you win every time.īest List That’s All About Food – Epicurious And since it allows users to apply multiple filters simultaneously, if you’re looking for something very specific-say, a “Rather Long” “Non-fiction” “Tale from Around the World” “For Art Lovers”-you get an equally specific recommendation-say, Alan Bennett’s Keeping On Keeping On.
The Best List That’s Interactive and Lets You Play With Filters to Figure Out What to Read Next - NPRįor the last few years, NPR’s best books of the year list, which the help of their “ Book Concierge,” has allowed readers to apply filters, choosing from categories like “Biography & Memoir,” “For History Lovers,” “For Music Lovers,” “Let’s Talk About Sex,” “It’s All Geek to Me,” “Identity & Culture,” “Realistic Fiction,” “The Dark Side,” and “Tales from Around the World.” The concierge pulls from over 350 books, helping readers to find exactly what they’re looking for. We present: The Best of the Best Books of the Year Lists in 2017. To help you navigate through all the best books of the year, we’ve created a handy guide.
But overall, these lists do us the service of highlighting books that perhaps say something about the current time we are living in, and have the potential to last into the future. For some of us, this is a way to confirm our suspicions that we’re the well-read, discerning, sophisticated readers we always knew we were others (yours truly) become increasingly anxious, trying to figure out how we managed not to incorporate more of the “big books of the year” into the previous 365 days others still are introduced for the first time to some brand new reads. It’s the end of 2017 (*praise hands emoji*), so it’s that time when all of our beloved media and cultural outlets offer their picks for the best books of the year.
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