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2012 Books
New York Times: 10 Best Books of 2012
03 December 2012
The New York Times
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10 Best Books of 2012
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Also from
the New York Times
in 2012:
100 Notable Books
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Movies
Fiction
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
Building Stories
Chris Ware
A Hologram for the King
Dave Eggers
NW
Zadie Smith
The Yellow Birds
Kevin Powers
Nonfiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo
Far From the Tree
Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Andrew Solomon
The Passage of Power
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
The Patriarch
The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
David Nasaw
Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story
Jim Holt
