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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
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Best Books of the Year So Far: 2012 Editors' Picks

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life...
›Katherine Boo
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Gone Girl: A Novel
›Gillian Flynn
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›John Green
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      Best Books of the Year So Far by Category

      Best of 2012 So Far for Kids & Teens

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      Browse our editors' picks for the best books from the first half of the year.

      Star Wars: Darth Vader and Son
      ›Jeffrey Brown
      Hardcover
      (288 customer reviews)
      $14.95 $8.59
      The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the...
      ›Russ Kick
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      $39.95 $24.82
      Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
      ›Alison Bechdel
      Hardcover
      (72 customer reviews)
      $22.00 $12.94
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      Best of the Year So Far in Kindle Singles

      Kindle Singles offer a vast spectrum of reporting, essays, memoirs, narratives, and short stories presented to educate, entertain, excite, and inform. Here are our picks for the best Kindle Singles of 2012 so far:

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      The Best Books of 2011: New in Paperback

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      Daughter of Smoke & Bone
      ›Laini Taylor
      Paperback
      (678 customer reviews)
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      Ready Player One: A Novel
      ›Ernest Cline
      Paperback
      (1,803 customer reviews)
      $14.00 $11.25
      The Cat's Table (Vintage International)
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      More About Amazon.com's 2012 Best Books of the Year So Far

      All year, Amazon.com's editorial team reads with an eye for the Best Books of the Month, plus the best books in popular categories like Cooking, Food & Wine books, Literature & Fiction, Children's books, Mystery & Thrillers, Comics & Graphic Novels, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, the best books for teens, and more. We scour reviews and book news for tips on what the earliest readers have loved, trade books amongst ourselves, and fan out to tear through as many of the best books as possible. Then we face off in a monthly Best Books selection meeting to champion the books we think will resonate most with their readership.

      In early summer, we look through the best books published between January and June of 2012 before casting our ballots for the Best Books of the Year So Far. The titles that made our Best of the Month lists are considered, but we also look at books we might have missed through our Best of the Month selection process. Many of our editorial picks for the best books are also customer favorites and bestsellers, but we strive to spotlight the best books you might not otherwise hear about, too.

      The books included in Amazon's Best Books program are entirely editorial selections. We have great passion for uniting readers of all ages and tastes with their next favorite read, helping our customers find terrific gifts for booklovers, and drawing more attention to the best books by exceptional authors of all stripes.