This post is part of my year end "Attack of the Best Lists" coverage. To see every post in my "Best Books 2022" series [and more backlist best options] you can use the best lists tag.
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From the landing page for the lists:
147 titles across 15 categories to share with readers now and for years to come.
At LJ. we consider best books on many fronts, but mostly we are searching for titles that stop us in our tracks for more reasons than we could possibly articulate. Because that is what great reads do. They overwhelm any criteria we can list and reduce us to "Yes, that, and that too, and even more." Listed here are books we stayed up all night reading and started the day wanting to discuss. Books we read and re-read. together and apart, books that some of us are already re-reading again. We hope you find treasures among these lists and that they make you, and the readers you help every day, stop and say, "Yes, that."
I am very happy to have been part of the team who looked at the year that was and prioritized the reading experience of these titles as we weighed their status as best. It is a refreshing way to look at the "best" tag. As I went through the Horror selection experience over multiple meetings with my editor and list mate, Melissa DeWild, the conversations we had about all of the titles we considered was enlightening.
I hope you all take away more from these lists than merely which titles are included and which excluded, and rather use them as a jumping off point to consider your own "bests"- both yours and your patrons. Prioritizing the reading experience is such a helpful way to think about which books rise to the top.
Below are the categories, linked to the lists. Each category is offered as a web page and a PDF that you can post and share with your patrons more easily. And there is a bonus category of "Best Covers" this year was well.
Again here is the portal page link, but you can also use the category links below.
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