Each year, several major lexicographers release their word of the year – the term that, among the most frequently looked-up words during the previous twelve months, has most prominently captured the zeitgeist. This post discusses the 2016 selections.
To date, I’ve read 96 books in 2016, which is up from the 87 I read last year. Since you’ve already called me a nerd in your head, please allow me to further strengthen the case. Those 96 books add up to 37,872 pages, myriad reading devices, and two dried out eyeballs. I also managed to get engaged, help build a website at my day gig, edit and shop a novel, and feed and bath myself.
Without further adieu, enjoy the 30 best books of 2016…
Via http://www.writersbone.com/book-recommendations/2016/12/12/the-30-best-books-of-2016
This year, we had a healthy quantity of beautiful, inventive, arresting, unforgettable book cover designs, many of which deserve recognition. Now, of course, since it’s the end of the year, we are socially obligated to ask, but which were the very best? So I wondered: which were the very best? I know what looks good to my laywoman’s eye, but which were really marvelous and which simply pretty? To make sense of it all, I asked seventeen designers whose own work I have deeply admired to talk about their personal favorite book covers of 2016.
Via http://lithub.com/the-60-best-book-covers-of-2016-as-chosen-by-designers/?platform=hootsuite
Times were good for fiction: this was a rich 12 months, with plenty of big names and big ideas – though not always wrapped up in the same package.
The Best Books of 2016 as suggested by The Guardian, how many have you read…?
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