Here are the 10 best books of 2013, selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review:

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Fiction

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Alfred A. Knopf

Amazon
$6.88

The Flamethrowers

Rachel Kushner
Scribner

Amazon
$7.46

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt
Little, Brown & Company

Amazon
$11.94

Life after Life

Kate Atkinson
A Reagan Arthur Book/Little, Brown & Company

Amazon
$5.32

Tenth of December: Stories

George Saunders
Random House

Amazon
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Nonfiction

After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead

Alan S. Blinder
The Penguin Press

Amazon
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Days Of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

Peter Baker
Doubleday

Amazon
$12.49

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Sheri Fink
Crown

Amazon
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christopher Clark
Harper

Amazon
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Wave

Sonali Deraniyagala
Alfred A. Knopf

Amazon
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