Best Books of 2017: Jeff’s Picks
Ali Smith’s Autumn is a tremendously good and timely novel and one that should have knocked George Saunders’s incredible (but let’s face it, pretty weird) Lincoln in the Bardo from the Man Booker Prize’s...
Category: Year’s Best Books
Best Books of 2017: Mark’s Picks
Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis had, over the course of years, established an unusual friendship with Lou Reed, famous for his belligerence with reporters. In Lou Reed: A Life, DeCurtis painstakingly tells Reed’s...
Best Books of 2017: Alex’s Picks
Author Ayelet Waldman has endured struggles with neuroses, depression, and chronic pain, so naturally she turned to LSD. A Really Good Day is the nonfiction chronicle of her “microdosing” experiments; every three days she...
Best Books of 2017: John’s Picks
Every list of “Best Books” is purely subjective, hostage to one’s personal tastes and to the seldom-acknowledged detail that the evaluator is never able to read all the books available in a given year....
Best Books of 2016 – Jeff’s Picks
What a fantastic year of books – it’s quite difficult to narrow it down to a top few. I hate to exclude Don DeLillo’s Zero K, and Adam Haslett’s Imagine Me Gone, but there can only be...
Best Books of 2016 – Mark’s Picks
If you discount the three months I spent reading Infinite Jest, my reading in 2016 was heavily weighted on the nonfiction aisle, so it seems fitting that my picks for the year fall into...
Best Books of 2016 – Nancy’s Picks
When Skyhorse Publishing asked me to read Just One Damned Thing After Another and write about it for their blog, I kind of dreaded it. It’s not often that I get sent a genre...
Best Books of 2016 – Alex’s Picks
Teddy Wayne’s Loner, my favorite of this year’s bunch, is a precise snapshot of a college freshman seeking to climb the social ladder by attaining the elusive target of his lust. As protagonist David’s...
Best Books of 2016 – John’s Picks
2016 was a bountiful year for readers. Picking 5 books, 10, or 20 books to single out is an imposing task. No matter how much one reads, there are a thousand potential “best books”...
