Overview

• Amazon’s Seattle-based panel convenes each June to sift through hundreds of midyear releases and identify standout titles.
• The list features both fiction and nonfiction with Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore claiming the top spot.
• Genre variety spans S.A. Cosby’s crime saga King of Ashes, Gardiner Harris’s investigative No More Tears, Suzanne Collins’s Sunrise on the Reaping prequel and Tina Knowles’s memoir Matriarch.
• Editors spotlight narratives centered on family, grief and resilience that deliver immersive, engaging page-turners.
• In addition to the top 10, Amazon Books unveiled a broader Top 20 and specialized lists in genres from romance to sci-fi.