If you wanted the read the three best books released in the past year, how would you go about it?

Would you just look at the Best-Of-Lists like these:
NYTimes: All Fours, Good Material, James
New Yorker: On the Calculation of Volume, All Fours, The Anthropologists
The Guardian: Intermezzo, Our Evenings, Caledonian Road

The problem is, those cover only a tiny section of the entire world literature. Surely they cannot be the absolutely best right? Meanwhile the prestigious awards like the Nobel Prize or the Goncourt Prize generally don't cover the releases from the past year in particular. How do you go about finding the best novels of the past year?