PW's Top Books of 2012

Publishers Weekly, the publication of the publishing industry, recently announced their picks for the top ten books of the year: 

Building Stories

Chris Ware(Pantheon)

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel (Holt)

The Round House

Louise Erdrich(Harper)

Happiness Is aChemical in the Brain

Lucia Perillo (Norton)

The Devil in Silver

Victor LaValle(Spiegel & Grau)

Detroit City Is the Place to Be: TheAfterlife of an American Metropolis

Mark Binelli(Metropolitan)

All We Know: ThreeLives

Lisa Cohen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

People Who EatDarkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets ofTokyo

Richard Lloyd Parry (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of BritishNorth America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675

Bernard Bailyn(Knopf)

Iron Curtain: TheCrushing of Eastern Europe, 1945–1956

Anne Applebaum (Doubleday)