Chosen from the nearly 9,000 reviews, PW's 101 Best Books of 2013 span all the adult genres -- nonfiction; fiction; poetry; religion; mysteries and thrillers; cookbooks and lifestyle; health; parenting; crafts and hobbies; comics and graphic novels; science fiction, fantasy and horror; and romance and erotica.



The top 10 books, which PW does  not rank, include the novels The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (Riverhead), The Silence and the Roar by Nihad Sirees (Other Press), Sea of Hooks by Lindsay Hill (McPherson & Co.), The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara (Doubleday) and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (Random/Hogarth).


See the full list here.

Nonfiction titles in the top 10 include Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill (Nation Books), Lost Girls by Robert Kolker (Harper), Miss Anne in Harlem by Carl Kaplan (Harper), Going Clear by Lawrence Wright (Knopf) and Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury).

This year’s selection “rewards the famous as well as the undiscovered,” according to PW v-p and reviews editor Louisa Ermelino. She added that PW “avoids popularity contests, aiming instead for a wide-reaching spectrum of books,” noting that the top 10 includes a translation from the Arabic, The Silence and the Roar, from the independent publisher Other Press.

 And from Publishers Lunch:
Amazon names their top books for November. Rich Cohen's Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and The Wild Heart of Football is their "spotlight" title, and Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half is their "featured debut." The rest of their list includes two more titles you can preview right now in our latest Buzz Books (Goodyear and Tan):


Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World that Made Him, David Henry, Joe Henry
Anything That Moves, Dana Goodyear
The Valley of Amazement, Amy Tan
The Isle of Youth: Stories, Laura van den Berg
Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton
Rustication, Charles Palliser
At Night We Walk in Circles, Daniel Alarcón
The Bully Pulpit, Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Death of Santini, Pat Conroy