Amazon, SFBC release 'Best Books of the Month' lists

Today, I give you two book-related items all in one post.

Today’s post includes Amazon.com’s editors’ list of Best Books of May and the Top 20 books from the Science Fiction Book Club’s May bulletin.

Just a few days ago, Amazon.com released its editors’ list of Best Books of May, which includes 10 books that I’m sure more than a few of you have heard about.

Books that made the list include the following titles:

1. “Lost in Shangri-La” by Mitchell Zuckoff
2. “Caleb’s Crossing” by Geraldine Brooks
3. “Orientation: And Other Stories” by Daniel Orozco
4. “In the Garden of Beasts” by Erik Larson
5. “I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive” by Steve Earle
6. “The Snowman” by Jo Nesbo
7. “Doc” by Mary Doria Russell
8. “What Happened to Goodbye” by Sarah Dessen
9. “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making” by Catherynne M. Valente.
10. “Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake” by Michael Kaplan

“What Happened to Goodbye” (No. 8) was Amazon’s Best Book for Young Adults, and “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making” (9) was their Best Book for Middle-Grade Readers selection. “Betty Bunny Love Chocolate Cake” (10) was Amazon’s Best Picture Book selection.

For more information about these books, visit www.amazon.com.

My copy of the Science Fiction Book Club’s May bulletin arrived in the mail a few days ago, and my favorite section in each of these bulletins is the SFBC’s Top 20.

Books that made the SFBC’s Top 20 list include the following titles:

1. “Lost Gate” by Orson Scott Card
2. “The Griffin Mage Trilogy” by Rachel Neumeier
3. “Halo: Cryptum” by Greg Bear
4. “Pathfinder” by Orson Scott Card
5. “Pegasus” by Robin McKinley
6. “Hull Zero Three” by Greg Bear
7. “Treachery in Death” by J.D. Robb
8. “What the Night Knows” by Dean Koontz
9. “Farlander” by Col Buchanan
10. “Towers of Midnight” by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
11. “Masques & Wolfsbane” by Patricia Briggs
12. “The Crippled God” by Steven Erikson
13. “Batman & Robin: Batman Reborn – The Deluxe Edition” by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Frank Quitely and Phillip Tan
14. “Awakened” by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
15. “Catacombs” by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
16. “Side Jobs” by Jim Butcher
17. “The Dark Tower: Battle of Jericho Hill” by Stephen King
18. “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms” by N.K. Jemisin
19. “Blackveil” by Kristen Britain
20. “Out of the Dark” by David Weber

For more information about these books and to view the SFBC’s Top 100 list, visit www.sfbc.com.

In the end, how many of the books mentioned above have you had a chance to read? Which did you like or dislike? Which would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.