Steve Coll has won the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for PRIVATE EMPIRE: Exxon Mobil and American Power (Penguin Press). Publishers Weekly announced their picks for the 100 best books adult books (and 40 top children’s books) of 2012. Here is their top 10 list: Building Stories, by Chris Ware (Pantheon) Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel (Holt) The Round House, by Louise Erdrich (Harper) Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain, by Lucia Perillo (Norton) The Devil in Silver, by Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau) Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an […]
