This is the moment all of the writers and editors of January Magazine have been working towards all year. The moment when, after a mountain of reading and a gargantuan effort, we stand aside after 12 dizzying months, and introduce you to our picks for the best books of the year. You’ll find a few words about our methodology, as well as links to all the lists, here.
Below you will find the Fiction segment of January Magazine’s Best Books of 2013 feature, completing this year’s postings. You can see our picks for the Best Non-Fiction here, while Best Crime Fiction is here, Best Cookbooks are here and Best Books for Children and Young Adults are here. — LLR David Abrams is the author of Fobbit (Grove/Atlantic, 2012) and regularly blogs about books at The Quivering Pen. • At the Bottom of Everything by Ben Dolnick (Pantheon) Ben […]
This is the Non-Fiction segment of January Magazine’s Best Books of 2013 feature. You can see our picks for the Best Crime Fiction here, while Best Cookbooks are here and Best Books for Children and Young Adults are here. Still to be posted are our selections of the Best Fiction published during the last 12 months. — LLR Jones Atwater is a musician, sports fanatic and struggling author. He lives in Ohio with his Fender Stratocaster, […]
This is the Books for Children and Young Adults segment of January Magazine’s Best Books of 2013 feature. You can see our picks for the Best Crime Fiction of 2013 here and Best Cookbooks of 2013 here. Still to come are our choices of the Best Non-Fiction and Best Fiction. — LLR • A Long Way Away written and illustrated by Frank Viva (HarperCollins Canada) Like Along a Long Road, his award-winning debut storybook in […]
This is the cookbook segment of January Magazine’s Best Books of 2013 feature. You can see our picks for the Best Crime Fiction of 2013 here. Still to come are our choices of the Best Non-Fiction, Best Fiction, Best Books for Children and Young Adults. — LLR Jones Atwater is a musician, sports fanatic and struggling author. He lives in Ohio with his Fender Stratocaster, Pearl, and his cat, Rhea. • The Beekman 1802 Heirloom […]
Editor’s note: This is the first segment of January Magazine’s Best Books of 2013 feature. Still to come are our choices of the Best Non-Fiction, Best Fiction, Best Books for Children and Young Adults, and Best Cookbooks. Look for them in the coming days. — LLR Ali Karim is The Rap Sheet’s always-too-busy British correspondent, a contributing editor of January Magazine and the assistant editor of Shots. In addition, he writes for Deadly Pleasures and […]
(Editor’s note: Perhaps not surprisingly, Southern California novelist and screenwriter Lee Goldberg — who’s concocted scripts for such notable television series as Diagnosis: Murder, Spenser: For Hire and Monk, and penned more than a dozen Monk TV tie-in novels — is a big fan of books about television history. Big enough, in fact, that he has penned a trio of his own contributions to that field. Below, Goldberg remarks on five volumes of TV history, […]
One per cent doesn’t sound like a lot, but it’s a trend in the right direction. From Publishers Weekly: Print book unit sales in Canada were up by 1% in 2015, compared to the previous year, according to sales tracking service BookNet Canada. The overall dollar value of print books sold, meanwhile, rose by 3%. The data coincides with what indie booksellers reported to PW earlier this month, that many stores’ had solid sales gains […]
Vancouver Public Library. Where are the best libraries in the world? According to a new German study, the two top libraries in the world are in Canadian cities. The Vancouver Public Library says: Scholars at Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf have named the public libraries in Vancouver and Montreal as the No. 1 libraries in world cities — topping a lengthy list that includes libraries in New York, Boston, London, Barcelona, Los Angeles and Toronto. Researchers […]
The Toronto retail space at 20 Edward Street, just north of Toronto Eaton Centre, that has billed itself as “the world’s biggest bookstore” since the early 1980s has been sold to developers. The bookstore currently there will close early next year. Though the space has housed an Indigo Books for the last several years, the space was initially purchased by Jack Cole, founder of Coles Books, back in 1979. Coles Books was an important Canadian […]
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