Publishers Weekly have announced their
picks for the 100 best books adult books (and 40 top children's books) of 2012.
Here is their top 10 list:
Building Stories, by Chris Ware (Pantheon)Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel (Holt)
The Round House, by Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain, by Lucia Perillo (Norton)
The Devil in Silver, by Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis, by Mark Binelli (Metropolitan)
All We Know: Three Lives, by Lisa Cohen (FSG)
People Who Eat Darkness, by Richard Lloyd Parry (FSG)
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675 by Bernard Bailyn (Knopf)
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956 by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday)
I have to confess that I have read none of them. Any comments? Recommendations?
2 comments:
Not only have I not read any of them, I haven't even heard of most of them! I do have the Hilary Mantel on my TBR pile, though, and I'm looking forward to getting into it. I loved its predecessor.
I'm glad we are kindred souls! Book clubs make me feel uncultured. I intend to read the Hilary Mantel, too, but it will be a very fresh view, as I haven't read any of his or her books.
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