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June 24, 2013By Michael Cader

Amazon’s Best Books of Early 2013

June 24, 2013By Michael Cader

Amazon’s editors have posted their “best books of the year so far” lists across multiple categories.

Their overall top 10 so far includes four titles first available to readers in our spring/summer edition of Buzz Books 2013 (published right before the ABA’s Winter Institute), asterisked below:

1. Life After Life, Kate Atkinson*
2. The Son, Philipp Meyer*
3. Frozen in Time, Mitchell Zuckoff
4. The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer*
5. And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
6. Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
7. Gulp, Mary Roach
8. After Visiting Friends, Michael Hainey
9. Tenth of December, George Saunders
10. The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker*

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