Amazon Books’ editorial team curates their
favorite books across genres and categories to determine the Best
Books of the Year So Far list
Additional picks include Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara
and the Sun, Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker, and Chris
Whitaker’s We Begin at the End
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) —Today, Amazon announced its picks for
2021’s Best Books of the Year So Far, selecting Maggie Shipstead’s
epic American saga Great Circle—a story about independence,
shedding your past, following your dreams, and pushing your
limits—as the No. 1 selection.
Throughout the year, Amazon Books Editors pore over thousands of
pages to determine the Best Books of the Month, Best Books of the
Year So Far, and Best Books of the Year, debating new releases
across various categories. The Editors are passionate about uniting
readers of all ages and tastes with their next favorite reads and
drawing more attention to the best books by a diverse set of
exceptional authors.
After curating titles released from January through June 2021,
Amazon Books Editors selected perfect options to read by the pool
or listen to on summer road trips, or to help readers who seek to
better understand diverse experiences and cultures. The full Top 10
list spans genres and categories, including ambitious literary
fiction, compelling biographies and memoirs, and gripping
psychological thrillers.
“For Best Books of the Year So Far, Amazon Books Editors wanted
to create a list that not only reflects the incredible books that
were published this year, but also helps readers escape—whether
that means sitting in a lawn chair in their yard or taking their
first vacation in over a year,” said Sarah Gelman, editorial
director at Amazon Books. “It was pretty clear that Maggie
Shipstead’s Great Circle was our favorite book so far this year—it
transcends decades, continents, and conventions, and is an
unforgettable read for this summer and beyond.”
The willfulness and spirit of Marian Graves, the lead
protagonist in Shipstead’s Great Circle, reverberated with readers.
An homage to the book’s title, many readers highlighted a specific
passage in the book more than others: “Circles are wondrous because
they are endless. Anything endless is wondrous. But endlessness is
torture, too. I knew the horizon could never be caught but still
chased it. What I have done is foolish; I had no choice but to do
it.”
After being told Great Circle was Amazon Books’ top pick for the
first half of 2021, Shipstead praised all of the authors on the
list and noted the accolade held special meaning: “I’m thrilled to
the point of bewilderment that Amazon has included Great Circle
among such wonderful books, let alone that they’ve given it the No.
1 spot. Every novel contains fragments of its author’s heart and
soul, and this book is full of great big chunks of mine, making its
inclusion hugely meaningful.”
Here are the Amazon Books Editors Top 10 picks of 2021 so far
and their reviews for what made each book stand out:
- Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead:
At a young age, Marian Graves becomes obsessed with flying, and
she’ll do whatever it takes to get into the sky and circumnavigate
the globe. Fast forward 100 years, and Hadley Baxter is remaking
herself in Hollywood as the role of Marian Graves in a Hollywood
bio-epic. From Montana to Los Angeles, London to New Zealand, Great
Circle follows these two women who yearn for adventure and freedom,
and like flying, it’s the thrill of the century. —Al Woodworth
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo
Ishiguro: When he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature,
the committee noted how Ishiguro “uncovered the abyss beneath our
illusory sense of connection with the world.” In this beautiful
novel, Ishiguro presents an “Artificial Friend,” a robot girl with
artificial intelligence designed as a playmate for real children.
It is a simultaneously heartbreaking and heart-mending story about
the abyss we may never cross. —Chris Schluep
- The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene
Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter
Isaacson: Isaacson is famous for writing Steve Jobs and Leonardo da
Vinci, so a title like The Code Breaker might imply a book about a
lesser character. But the 2020 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry,
biochemist Jennifer Doudna, who co-developed the gene editing
technology CRISPR, is a giant in her own right. CRISPR could open
some of the greatest opportunities, and most troubling quandaries,
of this century—and this book delivers. —Chris Schluep
- We Begin at the End by Chris
Whitaker: We Begin at the End is a story of regret and revenge,
wrapped around a mystery, buried inside a tale of star-crossed
love. Thirteen-year-old “outlaw” Duchess Radley—fierce but
vulnerable—attempts to protect her troubled mother but instead sets
off a fateful chain of events in this gorgeous, harrowing novel.
—Vannessa Cronin
- What's Mine and Yours by Naima
Coster: For fans of Celeste Ng, Ann Patchett, and Jacqueline
Woodson, What’s Mine and Yours beautifully unravels the hurt,
happiness, and hope that one generation bestows upon the next. An
unforgettable portrait of how parents and kids—white and
Black—handle love and loss, racism and loyalties. —Al
Woodworth
- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah:
Set during the Great Depression and featuring an unlikely heroine
who will lodge herself into your heart,The Four Winds is a
reminder, when we so urgently need it, of the resiliency not only
of the human spirit, but of this country as well. Kristin Hannah's
latest reads like a classic. —Erin Kodicek
- Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian
Broome: Hard-hitting, unflinching, and written with the unfettered
gusto of a fist in motion, Punch Me Up to the Gods is a searing
memoir of racism, homophobia, and addiction from a writer of
enormous talent. With humor, grace, and honesty, Broome
investigates his own identity and his experience as a gay Black man
in America. —Al Woodworth
- Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian:
This debut novel is part examination of the immigrant experience,
part exploration of the dark underbelly of suburbia, all with a
dash of magical realism thrown in. Two second-generation Indian
Americans discover the secret to success is drinking a lemonade
made from literal gold, and their lives are forever fused together
and altered. If this funny, realistic, and heart-breaking story is
any indication, Sathian is an author to watch. –Sarah Gelman
- The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz:
The Plot is a riveting story within a story that is a Rubik’s Cube
of twists. Jake Finch Bonner, a once-promising young author, is
floundering in obscurity when a one-of-a-kind plot falls into his
lap. The resulting book rockets Jake to stardom—only, the plot
wasn’t his. Korelitz’s thriller keeps readers guessing right up to
its shocking end. —Seira Wilson
- Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It
Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross: It turns out
that some of the most important conversations we have are with
ourselves. Ethan Kross examines the voice that speaks inside our
head, explains why it’s there, and reveals how we can learn to rely
on it rather than being broken by it. Chatter is a masterful,
revealing take on human nature. —Chris Schluep
The list shows that Shipstead’s Great Circle is among great
company in the Amazon Books Editors’ selections for Best Book of
the Year So Far. Previous titles in the top spot include Abi Daré’s
The Girl With the Louding Voice, Elizabeth Gilbert’s City of Girls,
Tara Westover’s Educated, and Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of
Utmost Happiness.
To celebrate their appearances on the annual list of Best Books
of the Year So Far, three of the authors—Shipstead, Coster, and
Broome—will appear on the Amazon Live Author Live series on June 9,
2021, at 1:30 p.m. PT to discuss their titles, their writing
process, and more. Viewers can watch, listen, and join the
conversation by visiting https://amzn.to/3ccqavr.
To view the complete list of the Best Books of the Year So Far,
covering children’s, romance, science, mysteries, business,
history, and more, visit www.amazon.com/bestbookssofar.
For more coverage of the books featured on the Best Books of the
Year So Far list, as well as insightful reviews on new books,
author interviews, and hand-curated roundups in popular categories,
visit the Amazon Book Review at www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview.
You can also follow the Amazon Book Editors’ recommendations and
conversations on Amazon Books’ Facebook, Twitter, and
Instagram.
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