Amazon.com has selected its best books of 2012, which includes its editors' top 100 books of the year, top 10 lists in more than 24 categories, and celebrities' picks of the year. Amazon's best book of the year is The Round House by Louise Erdrich.
Editorial director of books and Kindle Sara Nelson said that The Round House "has been a team favorite since we first read it this past summer, and we kept coming back to this beautifully written novel as our best book of the year."
The top 10 Amazon books of the year are:
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
