SUBSCRIBE
SUBSCRIBE
EXPLORE +
  • About infoDOCKET
  • Academic Libraries on LJ
  • Research on LJ
  • News on LJ
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Libraries
    • Academic Libraries
    • Government Libraries
    • National Libraries
    • Public Libraries
  • Companies (Publishers/Vendors)
    • EBSCO
    • Elsevier
    • Ex Libris
    • Frontiers
    • Gale
    • PLOS
    • Scholastic
  • New Resources
    • Dashboards
    • Data Files
    • Digital Collections
    • Digital Preservation
    • Interactive Tools
    • Maps
    • Other
    • Podcasts
    • Productivity
  • New Research
    • Conference Presentations
    • Journal Articles
    • Lecture
    • New Issue
    • Reports
  • Topics
    • Archives & Special Collections
    • Associations & Organizations
    • Awards
    • Funding
    • Interviews
    • Jobs
    • Management & Leadership
    • News
    • Patrons & Users
    • Preservation
    • Profiles
    • Publishing
    • Roundup
    • Scholarly Communications
      • Open Access

November 12, 2012 by Gary Price

Just Released: Amazon.com Editors’ Pick “Best Books of 2012”, Top 100 Books and Top 10 Lists (By Category)

November 12, 2012 by Gary Price

From Amazon.com:

Amazon.com today announced its selections for Best Books of 2012.
This annual feature includes the Editors’ Picks for the Top 100 Books of the Year and Top 10 lists in over two dozen categories, from Literature & Fiction to Children’s Books to Celebrity Picks, a new feature this year that includes favorites chosen by well-known people, including Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, Salman Rushdie, Molly Ringwald, and more.

Top 10 Books (Editors’ Picks) of 2012

1. “The Round House” by Louise Erdrich
2. “The Yellow Birds: A Novel” by Kevin Powers
3. “Gone Girl: A Novel” by Gillian Flynn
4. “The End of Your Life Book Club” by Will Schwalbe
5. “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: A Novel” by Ben Fountain
6. “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” by Katherine Boo
7. “A Hologram for the King” by Dave Eggers
8. “The Middlesteins: A Novel” by Jami Attenberg
9. “Mortality” by Christopher Hitchens
10. “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green

Direct to Amazon’s Best Books of 2012 Lists and Other Material (Overall and By Category)

Direct to Specific Lists

  • Top 100 Editors’ Picks: Print Books
  • Top 100 Editors’ Picks: Kindle Books
  • Top 20 Editors’ Picks: Kids & Teens
  • Arts & Photography
  • Audio Books
  • Biographies & Memoirs
  • Business & Investing
  • Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Cookbooks
  • Crafts
  • Entertainment
  • Food Lit
  • History
  • Home & Garden
  • Kids: Picture Books
  • Kids: Middle Grade
  • Kindle Singles
  • Literature & Fiction
  • Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Nonfiction
  • Outdoors & Nature
  • Politics & Social Sciences
  • Romance
  • Science
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Teens

Filed under: News

SHARE:

About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.

ADVERTISEMENT

Archives

Job Zone

ADVERTISEMENT

Related Infodocket Posts

ADVERTISEMENT

FOLLOW US ON X

Tweets by infoDOCKET

ADVERTISEMENT

This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible.

This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible.

Primary Sidebar

  • News
  • Reviews+
  • Technology
  • Programs+
  • Design
  • Leadership
  • People
  • COVID-19
  • Advocacy
  • Opinion
  • INFOdocket
  • Job Zone

Reviews+

  • Booklists
  • Prepub Alert
  • Book Pulse
  • Media
  • Readers' Advisory
  • Self-Published Books
  • Review Submissions
  • Review for LJ

Awards

  • Library of the Year
  • Librarian of the Year
  • Movers & Shakers 2022
  • Paralibrarian of the Year
  • Best Small Library
  • Marketer of the Year
  • All Awards Guidelines
  • Community Impact Prize

Resources

  • LJ Index/Star Libraries
  • Research
  • White Papers / Case Studies

Events & PD

  • Online Courses
  • In-Person Events
  • Virtual Events
  • Webcasts
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Media Inquiries
  • Newsletter Sign Up
  • Submit Features/News
  • Data Privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Terms of Sale
  • FAQs
  • Careers at MSI


© 2026 Library Journal. All rights reserved.


© 2022 Library Journal. All rights reserved.