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Publishers Weekly posts its best books of 2012 lists

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Journal Sentinel book editor Jim Higgins highlights things worth reading, in print and online

Nov. 02, 2012
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By Jim Higgins of the Journal Sentinel

Nov. 02, 2012 0

Trade publication Publishers Weekly has posted its Best Books 2012 lists, recommendations of 100 books for adults (plus another 40 children's titles) across multiple categories, including fiction, nonfiction, mysteries, romance, SF, comics and more.

Graphic novelist Chris Ware's striking "Building Stories" (Pantheon), which graces the cover of the Best Books package, and Hilary Mantel's Man Booker prize winning historical novel "Bring Up the Bodies" (Holt) top the magazine's overall Top Ten list, which is evenly spit between fiction and nonfiction. 

PW's Best Comics list of book-length graphic novels and comics is not for the fainthearted: it includes both Alison Bechdel's illustrated memoir "Are You My Mother?" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and Derf Backderf's "My Friend Dahmer" (Abrams Graphic Arts). (The mere existence of the latter book is problematic for many people in this town.)

The Best Nonfiction's 23 selections include Cheryl Strayed's "Wild" (Knopf), her memoir of a solo march through the mountain ranges of the Pacific Crest Trail.   

And I'm happy to report PW's Best Children's Fiction selectors liked Libba Bray's "The Diviners" (Little, Brown) as much as I did. (Set in the Roaring '20s, with a mix of wit, fantasy and horror, it appeals as much to adult readers as to teenagers.) 

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