Year-End Lists

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2012 Books

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2012

07 December 2012

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2012

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  1. Building Stories
    Chris Ware
  2. Bring Up the Bodies
    Hilary Mantel
  3. The Round House
    Louise Erdrich
  4. Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain
    Lucia Perillo
  5. The Devil in Silver
    Victor LaValle
  6. Detroit City Is the Place to Be
    The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
    Mark Binelli
  7. All We Know
    Three Lives
    Lisa Cohen
  8. People Who Eat Darkness
    The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo
    Richard Lloyd Parry
  9. The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675
    Bernard Bailyn
  10. Iron Curtain
    The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945–1956
    Anne Applebaum

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