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Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the executive director of product and ecommerce at Riot New Media Group. She co-hosts All the Books! and the Book Riot Podcast. Follow her on Twitter: @rebeccaschinsky.

Listen, I object to publishing “best of the year so far” lists before we’ve hit the halfway point, but literary media persists in doing it, nevertheless. Let’s jump in.

🏆 These are the most popular books of the year (so far) according to Goodreads.

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