Paste Best Books of the Year

About the Paste Best Books of the Year

Paste's own year-end best-books lists, read directly from pastemagazine.com (robots.txt allows it; the site's AI Policy covers only Paste's own writing). 2011 and 2012 are one combined list each (Best Books): 2011 is books editor Charles McNair's ranked 11, 2012 is the unranked Our 10 Favorite Books of 2012, which includes a city guide, a music-records book and an illustrated reissue. 2013 has only a fiction list (The 17 Best Fiction Books of 2013). 2015-2019 have separate ranked Fiction and Nonfiction lists. 2022 and 2023 have an unranked novels list only; 2024 has unranked novels and nonfiction lists. No list for 2006, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2020, 2021 or 2025: Paste's sitemap and search show no year-end books list for those years, only 'so far' and monthly lists. 2007 and 2008 are left out because they are Signs of Life pieces where guest authors name the best book they read that year, often older titles. Also left out: 'so far' lists, monthly lists, and side lists for young adult, fantasy, horror, short stories, audiobooks, comics, book covers, music books, and decade lists. Fixes: the 2015 fiction page prints Sara Nović as 'Sara Novi?', so the name comes from Kirkus and Electric Literature; the 2022 heading prints 'Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' and the title is taken from the same page's body text. Ranks are kept where Paste numbered the list (2011, 2013, 2015-2019).

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