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Kathryn Schulz: New York: Top 10 Books of 2012

03 December 2012

Kathryn Schulz: Top 10 Books of 2012, as published by New York Magazine

  1. Dear Life
    Alice Munro
  2. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
    Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    Katherine Boo
  3. Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story
    Jim Holt
  4. Zona
    A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
    Geoff Dyer
  5. Telegraph Avenue
    Michael Chabon
  6. Mortality
    Christopher Hitchens
  7. Object Lessons
    The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story
    Lorin Stein, Sadie Stein
  8. When I Was a Child, I Read Books
    Essays
    Marilynne Robinson
  9. Into the Silence
    The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
    Wade Davis
  10. House of Stone
    A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
    Anthony Shadid

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