Looking for the best books of the year? William E. Glassley’s A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice is a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year; Eduardo Halfon’s novel Mourning is a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, Smithsonian magazine Favorite Book of the Year, and more!; Diane DeSanders’ debut novel Hap and Hazard and the End of the World is a Lone Star Literary Life Top Twenty Texas Book of the Year; and  Bessora and Barroux’s graphic novel Alpha: Abidjan to Paris is a Library Journal Best Book of the Year, School Library Journal Best Adult Book 4 Teens, and Comics Journal Best Comic of the Year!