Amazon has revealed its Best Books of the Year So Far, an annual list curated by Amazon.com’s Editorial staff of their favorite reads among books released during the first six months of the year.
Lab Girl, a memoir by Hope Jahren, topped the list. “Our top pick, Lab Girl, was a wonderful surprise to us: a debut memoir by a woman in science that is at once a coming of age story, a moving portrait of love, work and life and a remarkable examination of trees, plants and, yes, dirt,” stated Sara Nelson, Editorial Director of Print and Kindle Books at Amazon.com.
We’ve got the top 10 books on the list for you after the jump.
Amazon’s Best Books of the Year So Far
1. Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
2. Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
3. Before the Fall: A Novel by Noah Hawley
4. The Nest: A Novel by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney: Money + Family
5. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
6. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
7. The Girls: A Novel by Emma Cline
8. The Longest Night: A Novel by Andria Williams
9. Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story by Matti Friedman
10. Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
