In December 7, 2012 Entertainment Weekly magazine, there was several pages of Beautiful Gift Edition Books about Art, Classics, Cute Animals, Science, Places to Go, Fashion & Design and Pop Culture, that you can add to your Holiday Gift giving. At the end of those pages there were a chart of the 20 Best-Selling Gift Photo Books on Amazon.com:
1. Underwater Dogs Seth Casteel
2. Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys Kitty Kelley
3. Dancers Among Us: A Celebration of Joy in Everyday Jordan Matter
4. Lauren Conrad Beauty Lauren Conrad & Elise Loehnen
5. The Art of Wreck-It Ralph Jennifer Lee & Maggie Malone
6. Kate: The Kate Moss Book Kate Moss, Fabien Baron, Jess Jallett & Jefferson Jack
7. Star Wars Encyclopedia DK Publishing
8. The Ge0metry of Pasta Caz Hildebrand & Jacob Kenedy
9. More Than Human Tim Flach
10. Boo: Little Dog in the Big City J.H. Lee & Gretchen LeMaistre
11. The Ultimate Book of Optical Illusion Al Seckel
12. Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible Tim Gunn & Ada Calhoun
13. Awkward Family Photos Mike Bender & Doug Chernack
14. The Art of Rise of the Guardians Ramin Zahed
15. The Things that Matter Nate Berkus
16. Awakening: The Art of Halo 4 Paul Davies
17. James Bond: 50 Years of Movie Posters DK Publishing
18. The Centre Cannot Hold David Gulden
19. The Big Book of Chic Miles Redd
20. Pharrell: Places and Spaces I’ve Been Pharrell Williams
Top 10 2012 Books (People Magazine December 31, 2012)
1. Dear Life by Alice Munro
2. This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
3. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
4. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
5. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
6. Behind the Beautiful Forever by Katherine Boo
7. Quiet by Susan Cain
8. Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin
9. How Children Succeed by Paul Tough
10. Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Best Fiction of 2012 (Entertainment Weekly December 28,2012/January 4, 2013)
1. Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2. The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
3. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
4. Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
5. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
6. The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger
7. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
8. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
9. Building Stories by Chris Ware
10. This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
Best Nonfiction of 2012 (Entertainment Weekly December 28,2012/January 4, 2013)
1. Behind the Beautiful Forever by Katherine Boo
2. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
3. House of Stone by Anthony Shadid
4. People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
5. The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro
6. The Mansion of Happiness by Jill Lepore
7. The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
8. Marbles by Ellen Forney
9. Now Easy Day by Mark Owen with Keven Maurer
10. The Violinist’s Thumb by Sam Kean
Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist announced
Article by Stephen Lee on EW.com March 13, 2013
Woman’s Prize for Fiction 2012 Announced
The Women’s Prize for Fiction — formerly the Orange Prize before the telephone corporation withdrew its funding — has announced its 20 contenders out of 140 submissions:
Kitty Aldridge, A Trick I Learned From Dead Men
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
Ros Barber, The Marlowe Papers
Shani Boianjiu, The People of Forever are Not Afraid
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Sheila Heti, How Should A Person Be?
AM Homes, May We Be Forgiven
Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
Deborah Copaken Kogan, The Red Book
Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
Bonnie Nadzam, Lamb
Emily Perkins, The Forrests
Michèle Roberts, Ignorance
Francesca Segal, The Innocents
Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Elif Shafak, Honor
Zadie Smith, NW
ML Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
Carrie Tiffany, Mateship with Birds
G Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen
