From Miriam Gershow, the author of Closer: This week saw the culmination of a year’s work on the 100 Notable Small Press Books project I started last winter. Forty remarkable reviewers spent 2025 reading small press books, and Lit Hub published the final list on Monday. Click on the image to read the list. Sign up to …
Do you have any reading resolutions? Did you compile a list of your favorite books from 2023? We’d love to know! Please share in the comments.
Island Books of Mercer Island, WA has compiled their list of favorite children’s picture books of the year. Here is a sampling: Agatha May and the Angler Fish written by Nora Morrison and Jessie Ann Foley, illustrated by Mika Song I Don’t Care written by Julie Fogliano, illustrated by Molly Idle and Juana Martinez-Neal Kumo: …
From the Third Place Books blog, posted November 5, 2020: We asked the booksellers at all three of our locations for their favorite books of 2020. These are the top 10* books that made it onto the majority of those lists. [*Editor’s note: We’re only posting the top five so you can predict the other …
Have you seen the “Best Books of 2017” feature on the Multnomah County Library website? It lets you choose a genre and then find top books of the last year. When you click on the covers, you get a write-up about why the book is recommended. Have fun exploring librarians’ recommendations.
December is a time of list making, be it goals for the upcoming year, holiday gift recipients, or to-dos-before-the-kids-come-home. At Island Books, a good portion of our time is spent assisting others who need to check off their lists. “I need the perfect book for my sports-obsessed father-in-law, my three-year-old niece, and my hairdresser,” are …
