How to Break the “Best-Of” List Trap

Five Rules for Finding Your Next Read

At the start of every year, we see a lot of “best of” lists recapping the previous year, and start a new cycle of “most anticipated books”, “best books of the year so far,” “books you must read”, etc. Even as someone who works in book publishing, I find myself frequently lost in the recommendation mill. Usually the same few “big books” dominate these li…