There are still several weeks to go before the year ends, but both Amazon and Barnes & Noble have already made their decisions on the best books of 2026.
Amazon announced its top 20 books of the year on Thursday, a list spanning both fiction and nonfiction titles. And Barnes & Noble shared on Thursday its “book of the year” winners in fiction, nonfiction and children’s literature.
Here are the top choices.
Best books of 2026
The top fiction choices from Amazon and Barnes & Noble share an interesting similarity: They’re both described as epic, multigenerational family sagas that explore the immigrant experience in America.
The No. 1 choice on Amazon’s list was “American Hagwon,” by Min Jin Lee, which Amazon editor Al Woodworth called “an extraordinary Trojan horse of a novel that will make your heart sing and make you want to talk to everybody you know about it.”
“Utterly magnetic, American Hagwon will change the way you think about family, sacrifice, and…
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