Publishers Weekly Top 10/Top 150

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Publishers Weekly just released their top 150 for the year (150? Really? Seems like a lot to me.) Their Top 10:

Audition by Katie Kitamura
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Capitalism and Its Critics: A History, from the Industrial Revolution to AI by John Cassidy
Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin
On the Calculation of Volume, Book 3 by Solvej Balle
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age by Vauhini Vara
The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America by Jeff Chang
When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World by Jordan Thomas
Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff

You can see the full list here.

I’m fascinated by “best of” lists and by awards. This set in particular - I’ve never heard of most of these, and, perhaps more importantly, I’ve no desire to read them. I would love to know how they picked these.

As a reminder, BookBrowse is currently compiling its own Best of the Year list, and this year we’re using your reading lists. If you haven’t created one yet, please make sure to do so soon, even if it just includes the books you’d nominate for the Best of the Year.

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I’m curious at the number of nonfiction titles, and it’s interesting they included a ‘Book 3’ as well haha.

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On the Calculation of Volume, Book 3 is on this year’s National Book Award shortlist, too. I think it was maybe @Anne_Glasgow that read Book 1 and thought it was great.

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I read I & II and I’m excited for the upcoming publication of III. I actually thought II was a little better than I. It is not a reading experience that will suit everyone but for some reason I find it completely intriguing.

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Looks like IV is coming out in April.

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I have not read these 10!