Best Books of Year: Top 100 Picks for 2012

All year, the Amazon Books editorial team reads voraciously, tracking down and sharing the most fascinating, compelling, enlightening, and entertaining books for readers of all tastes. Here are our 100 picks for the best reads of the year. Click here to return to Amazon's 2012 Best Books of the Year store.
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The Round House The Yellow Birds: A Novel Gone Girl: A Novel The End of Your Life Book Club
The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
4.5 out of 5 stars (133)
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 The Yellow Birds: A Novel
by Kevin Powers
3.9 out of 5 stars (112)
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 Gone Girl: A Novel
by Gillian Flynn
3.7 out of 5 stars (4,183)
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 The End of Your Life Book Club
by Will Schwalbe
4.5 out of 5 stars (141)
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity A Hologram for the King The Middlesteins: A Novel
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel
by Ben Fountain
4.0 out of 5 stars (118)
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 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
4.2 out of 5 stars (250)
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 A Hologram for the King
by Dave Eggers
3.2 out of 5 stars (74)
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 The Middlesteins: A Novel
by Jami Attenberg
3.4 out of 5 stars (52)
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Mortality The Fault in Our Stars Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis Bring Up the Bodies
Mortality
by Christopher Hitchens
4.4 out of 5 stars (149)
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 The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
4.8 out of 5 stars (1,186)
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 Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
by Timothy Egan
4.6 out of 5 stars (33)
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 Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
4.4 out of 5 stars (264)
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The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0) Joseph Anton: A Memoir Sweet Tooth: A Novel
The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel
by Adam Johnson
4.1 out of 5 stars (189)
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 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)
by Cheryl Strayed
4.1 out of 5 stars (940)
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 Joseph Anton: A Memoir
by Salman Rushdie
4.1 out of 5 stars (81)
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 Sweet Tooth: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
3.9 out of 5 stars (94)
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The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don't The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business This Is How You Lose Her The Age of Miracles: A Novel
The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don't
by Nate Silver
4.2 out of 5 stars (124)
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 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by Charles Duhigg
4.3 out of 5 stars (492)
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 This Is How You Lose Her
by Junot Díaz
4.0 out of 5 stars (150)
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 The Age of Miracles: A Novel
by Karen Thompson Walker
3.8 out of 5 stars (373)
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking The Song of Achilles: A Novel Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel The Dog Stars
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
4.4 out of 5 stars (458)
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 The Song of Achilles: A Novel
by Madeline Miller
4.3 out of 5 stars (213)
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 Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel
by Carol Rifka Brunt
4.5 out of 5 stars (193)
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 The Dog Stars
by Peter Heller
4.3 out of 5 stars (338)
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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Sutton The Coldest Night
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
by Steve Coll
4.2 out of 5 stars (45)
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 The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
by Robert A. Caro
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 Sutton
by J. R. Moehringer
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 The Coldest Night
by Robert Olmstead
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