Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Best Books of 2012

Its time for top 10 lists. Here i have compiled Top 10 books list from sources where i read about books.These are the sites which i read regularly to find out new books.I have read only 1 book in these lists and im reading another one now but i have bought some books in these lists, hopefully will read soon.

Top 10 books in Amazon

No.BookAuthor
1.Fifty Shades Freed: Book Three of the Fifty
 Shades Trilogy
E. L.James
2.Gone GirlGillian Flynn
3.Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty
 Shades Darker,
Fifty Shades Freed 3-volume Boxed Set
E. L.James
4.Bared to You: A CrossfireSylvia Day
5.No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission
That Killed Osama Bin Laden
Mark Owen
6.The Marriage Bargain (Marriage to a Billionaire)Jennifer Probst
7.Reflected in You: A CrossfireSylvia Day
8.The RacketeerJohn Grisham
9.Defending JacobWilliam Landay
10.The InnocentDavid Baldacci

Top books in iTunes 

No.BookAuthor
1.Fifty Shades of GreyE. L.James
2.Fifty Shades DarkerE. L.James
3.Fifty Shades FreedE. L.James
4.Gone GirlGillian Flynn
5.Bared to YouSylvia Day
6.The Lucky OneNicholas Sparks
7.Kill ShotVince Flynn
8.Reflected in YouSylvia Day
9.The InnocentDavid Baldacci
10.The RacketeerJohn Grisham


Top books chosen by Publishers Weekly

No.BookAuthor
1.Building StoriesChris Ware
2.Bring Up the BodiesHilary Mantel
3.The Round HouseLouise Erdrich
4.Happiness is a Chemical in the BrainLucia Perillo
5.The Devil in SilverVictor LaValle
6.Detroit City Is the Place to Be:
The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
Mark Binelli
7.All We Know:Three LivesLisa 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

Top 10 books of  New York Times
Fiction
No.BookAuthor
1.Bring Up the BodiesHilary Mantel
2.Building StoriesChris Ware
3.A Hologram for the KingDave Eggers
4.NWZadie Smith
5.The Yellow Birdskevin Powers

Non-Fiction
No.BookAuthor
1.Behind The Beautiful Foreverskatherine Boo
2.Far From The TreeAndrew Solomon
3.The Passage of PowerRobert A Caro
4.The Patriarch David Nasaw
5.Why does the World Exist?Jim Holt


Top 10 Non -Fiction books chosen by Time magazine

No.BookAuthor
1.
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern
Europe, 1945–1956
Anne Applebaum
2.The Passage of PowerRobert A Caro
3.Far From The TreeAndrew Solomon
4.My Friend DahmerDerf Backderf
5.Are you my Mother?Alison Beckdale
6.WildCheryl Strayed
7.Dearie: The remarkable life of Julia ChildBob Spitz
8.People Who Eat Darkness:
The True Story of a Young Woman Who
Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo
Richard Lloyd Parry
9.The First Four Notes: Beethoven’s Fifth
and
 the
 Human Imagination
Matthew Guerrieri
10.The Black CountTom Reiss

Top 10 Fiction books chosen by Time magazine

No.BookAuthor
1.
The Fault in our Stars
John Green
2.Bring Up the BodiesHilary Mantel
3.Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime WalkBen Fountain
4.At lastEdward St.Aubyn
5.The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and
 Led the Revels There
Catherynne Valente
6.The Casual VacancyJK Rowling
7.Building StoriesChris Ware
8.NWZadie Smith
9.Where’d You Go, Bernadette?Maria Semple
10.This Is How You Lose HerJunot Diaz


Slate Book Review Top 10

No.BookAuthor
1.Behind The Beautiful Foreverskatherine Boo
2.Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime WalkBen Fountain
3.Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
4.Every Love Story is a Ghost StoryD.T. Max
5.Gone GirlGillian Flynn
6.JournalismJoe Sacco
7.The Lifespan of a FactJohn D’Agata and Jim Fingal
8.NWZadie Smith
9.The Real and The UnrealUrsula K. Le Guin
10.WildCheryl Strayed
Goodreads Choice Award 2012  - The Casual Vacancy by J K Rowling

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