We asked nearly 150 booksellers from 20 bookstores across America to send us their favorite books of the year. The result: 750 suggestions, nearly 100 of which were recommended more than once. Following some very complicated math, we determined the 25 most bookseller-beloved books of the year. Click through to see how they voted:
Green Apple Books · Magers and Quinn · Tattered Cover · Papercuts J.P. · Porter Square Books · BookPeople · Fact and Fiction · Newtonville Books · Brazos Bookstore · Third Place Books (2 locations) · DIESEL Books (3 locations) · The King’s English · City Lights · Brookline Books · Bookmark It · Strand Bookstore · Harvard Book Store · Kepler’s Books and Magazines · Seminary Co-op
1.
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
2. (tie)
Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff · Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf · The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
3. (tie)
The Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli · M Train, Patti Smith · A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
4.
Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg
5. (tie)
Counternarratives, John Keene · Uprooted, Naomi Novik
6. (tie)
The Sellout, Paul Beatty · Hold Still, Sally Mann
7. (tie)
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin · Fortune Smiles, Adam Johnson · H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald· Nimona, Noelle Stevenson · The Visiting Privilege, Joy Williams
8. (tie)
A Manual For Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin · The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth · The Complete Stories, Clarice Lispector · The Tsar of Love and Techno, Anthony Marra · Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh · The Hired Girl, Laura Amy Schlitz · The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen · The Cartel, Don Winslow
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