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)