Just like the strains of “Jingle Bells” floating through the grocery stores, the annual Best Of lists have (already) begun to appear. Amazon.com is early out of the gate this year, releasing both their Editors’ Picks and their Customers’ Favorites this week.

Among the Editors’ Picks for the Top 50 Books of 2006, Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy achieved an elite status as part of the Top 10. (Hail Caesar!)

Yale also made the list in a number of other places this season. Moving through the categories alphabetically:

Art & Photography
Picasso and American Art by Michael FitzGerald is #3.

Biography
Never content with second best, Caesar has stormed over all other contenders. Goldsworthy’s Caesar can be found ruling the Biography list at #1.

Reference
“…You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.”- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (The Yale Book of Quotations, p. 367)
The Yale Book of Quotations edited by Fred Shapiro lands at #7 on the Reference list.

The Best Books of 2006 page can be found here.