Here are the 10 best books of 2012, selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review:

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Fiction

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel
A John Macrae Book/ Henry Holt & Company

Amazon
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Building Stories

Chris Ware
Pantheon Books

Amazon
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A Hologram for The King

Dave Eggers
McSweeney’s Books

Amazon
$5.52

NW

Zadie Smith
The Penguin Press

Amazon
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The Yellow Birds

Kevin Powers
Little, Brown & Company

Amazon
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Nonfiction

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Katherine Boo
Random House

Amazon
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Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Andrew Solomon
Scribner

Amazon
$7.34

The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Robert A. Caro
Alfred A. Knopf

Amazon
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The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

David Nasaw
The Penguin Press

Amazon
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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

Jim Holt
Liveright Publishing/W. W. Norton & Company

Amazon
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