Everyone’s at it.
Goodreads Choice Awards – Best Books 2018
London Evening Standard’s best books of 2018
Guardian best books of 2018: across fiction, politics, food and more
Barnes & Noble – Best Books of 2018
The New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018
And if all that wasn’t enough for you.
Download 569 free art books from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
You may remember that we featured the site a few years ago, back when it offered 397 whole books free for the reading … [T]he Met has kept adding to their digital trove since then, and, as a result, you can now find there no fewer than 569 art catalogs and other books besides. Those sit alongside the 400,000 free art images the museum put online last year.
I think I prefer Maria Popova’s round-up, though.
The loveliest children’s books of 2018
Maurice Sendak’s last book, a celebration of history’s heroic women illustrated by Maira Kalman, a stunning serenade to the wilderness, and more.
So many books, so little time.
We should ban the ‘best of’ end of year lists – they make us feel guilty and old
I mean, I suppose if I did nothing else with my free time, I might be able to get through the Times’ list, but that would be next year gone, and I would have to put off all the great new books of 2019 until 2020 and so on, year after year until the sweet release of death.