Amazon Names Best Books Of 2013 So Far

June 24, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Amazon Names Best Books Of 2013 So Far Amazon has named its best books of 2013 so far, and there are some unusual choices from its editors. Amazon's editorial director for Books and Kindle, Sara Nelson described the top choice, Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, as "an extraordinary feat of narrative ambition, an audacious genre-bender and a work of literary genius."  Continue reading... Writer Who Sued Over 'Da Vinci Code' Dies How A Reader Helped Me End My Journey PHOTOS: 8 Fascinating Anatomy History Facts (NEW BOOK) 7 Common Myths You Thought Were True 10 Moments That Shaped LGBT History In Comics 7 Common Myths You Thought Were True Why Eating Should Be More Like Sex 7 Common Myths You Thought Were True 8 Reasons Straight Men Don't Want To Get Married PETER DREIER Summer Reading About What Ails America and How to Fix It If you're interested in figuring out the roots of our current economic, social and political crisis, what it will take to fix it, and how you can be part of the solution, here's a list of 15 recent books you might want to take with you. Continue reading... HEATH BROWN Immigration Policy Summer Reading Abstract notions of insurmountable barbed wire fences and 'Gangs of Eight' obscure the importance of the individuals and activists on both sides of the border and all sides of the key issues. Two new books draw these local stories out in deeply interesting and well-researched ways. Continue reading... KAREN FRATTI 'True Blood' Recap: It's War! The "True Blood" way of life as we know it is about to change. The vampires versus human tension that's been festering all of this time has finally come to a head and everyone's going to come out different. Continue reading... XAQUE GRUBER Raoul Peter Mongilardi's Next To The Gods Is Science Fiction's Next Great Literary Series Centered around a highly advanced humanoid alien race known as the Aurocearians, victims of a devastating blow when the titular Gods (a mercurial bunch), angry with the race's arrogant behaviors, curses them by vaporizing every female hindering any hope for breeding. So what is a cursed race to do? Continue reading... CATHERINE MCKENZIE 52 Books in 52 Weeks, Week 25: The Devil Is in the Details Writing sequels to books that were never meant to have a sequel is hard. This is especially true in commercial fiction because the genre provides, and readers expect, that the story is be wrapped up in a nice bow by the end. And a sequel necessarily means unraveling that nice bow. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003