Fast forward 100 years, and Hadley Baxter is remaking herself in Hollywood as the role of Marian Graves in a Hollywood bio-epic.

Goodreads: An average 4.18-star rating over more than 1,800 ratingsĪmazon Books editor Al Woodworth: At a young age, Marian Graves becomes obsessed with flying, and she’ll do whatever it takes to get into the sky and circumnavigate the globe.

Out of the top 20 books featured, here are the top 10, which we listed alongside their average Goodreads ratings and why Amazon Books editors said they love each one. For the full list of editor-recommended books, you can find them all here. The following are among Amazon Books editors’ favorite reads so far this year.

Shopping Most anticipated beach reads for this summer The 20 best books of 2021 so far, according to Amazon Books editors There weren't any general guidelines that the editors considered before choosing books except that each had to be published between January and June - “the only criteria is to choose books that we loved and that we think will resonate with other readers,” Gelman said.

While many of these books end up being bestsellers and customer favorites, we get especially excited about highlighting literary gems customers might not otherwise hear about.” “When the year is halfway through, we comb through the titles that made the cut and select the best of the best. “The editors collectively read thousands of books each year, passionately debate them, and create editorially curated lists of recommendations each month,” explained Sarah Gelman, Amazon Books’ editorial director.

Amazon Books editors picked out each of the books in the list - 20 top titles published within the first half of the year that its editors “couldn’t stop thinking, raving about or recommending,” genres spanning from mystery to biography. Ahead of summer reading lists traditionally released around this time (the official start of the season arrives June 20 alongside Father’s Day), Amazon has launched its own books list: the Best Books of the Year So Far.

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