The Great Geek Manual

Here’s a round-up of all the “best books of the year” lists that I could find laying about the web. For the most part, they’re for fiction novels, sprinkled with a few lists of science books. If you know of any similar lists that I’ve missed, drop a link in the comments below!

3:AM Magazine: book
40 Forever: best books
Abby the Librarian: favorite children’s nonfiction books
About.com: most disappointing books
About.com: top books made into movies
Acorn Library’s Youth Services Blog: best young adult books
Afford Anything: best books
African/Black America: best books
Afterchurch: best books
Aleksandra’s Corner: best books
Alex in Leeds: notable contemporary fiction
Alex in Leeds: notable older fiction
Alexandra’s Scribblings: top books
Ali’s Bookshelf: best books
Alive (To the Tips of Her Fingers): best books
Alizah Salario: best books
All Books Considered: top YA/NA books
All Manner of Thing: favorite books
All Things Urban Fantasy: best paranormal fiction
Amara’s Eden: favorite books

Amazon: best arts and photography books
Amazon: best audiobooks
Amazon: best books
Amazon: best children’s middle grade books
Amazon: best children’s picture books
Amazon: best humor and entertainment books
Amazon: best Kindle singles
Amazon: best literature and fiction books
Amazon: best mystery, thriller, and suspense books
Amazon: best nonfiction
Amazon: best romance books
Amazon: best science fiction and fantasy books
Amazon: best teens books
Amazon: top books
Amazon: top Kindle books
Amazon CA: best books
Amazon UK: best children’s books
Amazon UK: best crime, thrillers, and mystery books
Amazon UK: best debut fiction
Amazon UK: best fiction
Amazon UK: best history books
Amazon UK: best science fiction and fantasy books
Amazon UK: best young adult books
Amy’s Book Den: best books
Andrew Lownie: favorite books
Anneloughery: top books
Antibacterial Pope: best books
Apollo Magazine: books
Apply Liberally: favorite books
At Home: best books
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: best books
The Atlantic: books
The Atlantic: YA/middle-grade books
The Atlantic Wire: books
Audible: best audiobooks
Audobon Magazine: notable books
Auntie Spinelli Reads: top books
The Aussie Zombie: top books
Austenprose: favorite Jane Austen-inspired books
Avery’s Book Nook: best books
AwesomeSauce Book Club: favorite books
An Awful Lot of Reading: top books


The Bagehot Post: best books
Bait for Bookworms: overrated books
Barnes and Noble: best biography books
Barnes and Noble: best books
Barnes and Noble: best fiction and literature
Barnes and Noble: best horror books
Barnes and Noble: best kids books
Barnes and Noble: best medical and nursing books
Barnes and Noble: best mystery, crime, and thriller books
Barnes and Noble: best reference books
Barnes and Noble: best romance books
Barnes and Noble: best science fiction and fantasy books
Barnes and Noble: best teens books
Barnes and Noble: best true crime books
BeEmbraced: best fiction
BeEmbraced: best nonfiction books
Beneath the Crust: best books
Beneath the Stains of Time: best books
Berkeleyside: editors’ best books
Better Hawaii: favorite books
Between the Covers: favorite middle grade books
BeyondChron: favorite books
Bibliognome: favorite books
Big Data Big Analytics: favorite books
Bill Gates: top books
Bite the Book: top books
Black Balloon Publishing: strangest books
Black Balloon Publishing: top books
Black Belt Workouts: top books
Blackwell’s: books
Blake Butler: books
Blog This Rock: poetry books
Blogging by Liza: top books
Bloomberg: best books
Boiler’s Blog: best books
Book Addiction: favorite adult fiction
Book Adoration: top books
The Book Belles: favorite books
Book Binge: best books
The Book Blah: top books
The Book Catapault: notable books
Book Diary: best books
Book Hooked Blog: best speculative fiction
Book Labyrinth: best books
The Book Lady’s Blog: best books
Book Light Graveyard: favorite books
Book Loving Mom: best books
The Book Maven: top novels
Book Munchies: best books
The Book Nympho: best books
The Book Rat: best books
Book Review Club: best books
Book Riot: best books
Book Riot: book boxed sets
Book Riot: most overlooked books
Book Riot: readers’ top books
Book Riot – The Well-Readheads: favorite books
The Book Smugglers: author’s favorite books
Book Snob: books
Book to the Future: books
Book-A-Day: staff picks for best books
Bookalicious: best books
Bookish: best books
A Bookish Affair: best books
Bookish Comforts: best books
BookLikes: best books
Booklist: best crime novels
Booklist: notable books
Booklist: top biographies
Booklist: top biographies for youth
Booklist: top business books
Booklist: top crime fiction audiobooks
Booklist: top crime fiction for youth
Booklist: top debut novels
Booklist: top debut novels for youth
Booklist: top graphic novels for youth
Booklist: top historical fiction
Booklist: top romance fiction
Booklist: top romance fiction for youth
Booklist: top science fiction/fantasy books
Booklist: top science fiction/fantasy books for youth
Booklist: top Westerns
Booklist: top Westerns for youth
BookPage: best books
BookPeople: best fiction
BookPeople: best nonfiction
BookPeople: best young readers books
BookPeople – Bruce: top books
BookPeople’s Blog – Jenn: top books
Bookreporter: reviewers’ book lists
Books and Beans: best books
Books and Culture: favorite books
Books and Reviews: best books
Books and Sensibility: best books
Books, Belles and Beaux: favorite paranormal fiction
Books, Bones, and Buffy: top books
Books, Bones and Buffy: top indie books
Books for Breakfast: top books
Books from Boxes: favourite books
Books in Bloom: favorite children’s picture books
Books in Bloom: favorite nonfiction books
Books in the City: top books
Books to Brighten Your Mood: best books
Books to the Ceiling: best crime fiction
Booktopia: best books
Bookworm Dreams: top books
Boston Globe: best children’s books
Boston Globe: best crime books
Boston Globe: best fiction books
Boston Globe: best young adult books
The Border Mail: best books
Borrowed Light (top books)
Boston Bibliophile: books
Bound 2 Astound: top lesser-known YA books
BPS Research Digest: best psychology books
Brain Nuggets: top books
Brain Pickings: best illustrated children’s books
Bree’s Books: best books
Brent Abell: favorite books
Brent Libraries: favorite books
Brian Evinou: best comics
Brian Keene: top books
British Comic Awards: comics
Broken Bows, Shattered Spears: favorite books
Browser’s Corner: favorite books
The Bucket List: best books
The Buffalo News: books
Businessweek: business people’s favorite books
The Busy Bibliophile: best books
Buttons and Blossoms: favorite books
BuzzFeed: best books
By Singing Light: fiction