The 10 Best Books of 2012: NYT Picks

Thanks: NY Times

FICTION

BRING UP THE BODIES
By Hilary Mantel.
A John Macrae Book/ Henry Holt & Company, $28.

BUILDING STORIES
By Chris Ware.
Pantheon Books, $50.

A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING
By Dave Eggers.
McSweeney’s Books, $25.

NW
By Zadie Smith.
The Penguin Press, $26.95.

THE YELLOW BIRDS
By Kevin Powers.
Little, Brown & Company, $24.99.

NONFICTION

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS
Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity.
By Katherine Boo.
Random House, $27.

FAR FROM THE TREE
Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.
By Andrew Solomon.
Scribner, $37.50.

THE PASSAGE OF POWER
The Years of Lyndon Johnson.
By Robert A. Caro.
Alfred A. Knopf, $35.

THE PATRIARCH
The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy.
By David Nasaw.
The Penguin Press, $40.

WHY DOES THE WORLD EXIST?
An Existential Detective Story.
By Jim Holt.
Liveright Publishing/W. W. Norton & Company, $27.95.

Top 10 Worst Hedlines from Newspapers

The Lower Case : CJR

Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

 

1. Efforts Meant to Help Workers Batter South Africa’s Poor —The New York Times 9/26/10
2. Christine O’Donnell’s Masturbation Stance —ABCnews.com 9/16/10
3. Beating Death Becomes Rallying Cry in Egypt
   —The Wall Street Journal 6/26/10
4. Butts Arrested in Boob Murder Case
   —WTAJ-TV website 9/2/10
5. SCHOOLS: Abstinence still focus, parents can opt out
   —Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times 8/8/10
6. BASEBALL NOTES:
   Rangers’ Hamilton to get shot for sore knee
   —Austin American-Statesman 9/1/10
7. Computers for kids missing in Iraq
   —The Orange County Register 8/28/10
8. Mayor unveils Black homicide plan
   —Defender (Houston, TX) 1/18-24/09
9. Public Help Sought in Shooting of Neighborhood Cat
   —KGMI.com 8/19/10
10. Cyclists battling hunger
    —The Times (Trenton, N.J.) 9/11/10