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80 In October, Barnes & Noble posted their database of the top 11 books of the year, arsenic selected by their booksellers. The database included bestselling novels, a representation book, a New Orleans cookbook, a past of hip-hop jewelry, and more.
Some of these books overlap with the erstwhile editorially-selected Barnes and Noble Best Books of the Year list, similar Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A.F. Steadman, but astir are not.
B&N has conscionable posted the results of the last ballot for booksellers’ apical publication of the twelvemonth retired of this abbreviated list, though, and the victor appeared connected some champion books lists arsenic good arsenic being a bestseller of 2022:
Lessons successful Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
“Our booksellers are astir arrogant to marque Lessons successful Chemistry the 2022 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year. This blockbuster debut is not lone charming, funny, and whip-smart but proves that life, similar science, is unpredictable.”
Barnes and Noble’s CEO besides said, “Lessons successful Chemistry is 1 of those uncommon novels that punches hard, whilst being brilliantly comic and a compulsive read. It is sensational and everyone should work it.”
Bonnie Garmus was connected the Barnes and Noble podcast backmost successful April discussing the book.
This year, though, different publication was besides recognized, successful a caller category: the Barnes & Noble Speculative Fiction Book Award for 2022.
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Babel by R. F. Kuang
“Barnes & Noble’s inaugural Speculative Fiction Book Award goes to R. F. Kuang’s Babel, a acheronian academia standalone that’s smart, witty, and terrifying — the benignant of publication you can’t halt speechmaking and can’t halt recommending!”
Barnes and Noble’s Director of Books said, “Booksellers person been obsessing implicit and revisiting the acheronian magic, lavish lore and the atmospheric satellite not excessively acold removed from our ain of R.F. Kuang’s Babel.”
The Barnes & Noble Book of the Year grant began successful 2019, and it has antecedently been awarded to The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (2019), World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and different Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (2020), and The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney (2021).
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