PEOPLE Magazine’s Top Ten(s)
In its final issue of the year, on newsstands now, People looks at the best of the year (the cover line promising worsts isn’t delivered, unless you count the Kardashian family, picked as one of most intriguing because their “merry-go-round finally spun out of control” this year or the celebrity Feuds of The Year).
Books appear throughout the issue, beginning with the cover that features an actress who has appeared in several movies based on books, one of which, American Hustle comes in at #3 on the list of ten best movies of the year. At number one is the book adaptation 12 Years A Slave, with Saving Mr. Banks at #7 and Philomena, #9.
Several best TV shows are also based on books –#3 Masters of Sex, #6 Hannibal, #7 Behind the Canelabra, and #8 Orange is the New Black.
Finally, there’s the list of the Top Ten Books themselves which includes several titles that have already been declared best by many other publications, as well as one that has not, the bio of Johnny Carson at #6. UPDATE: No sooner did we say that then the NYT‘s Janet Maslin declared the Carson bio one of her favorites of the year.
People‘s Top Ten Books
1) Tenth of December, George Saunders, (Random House)
2) The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt, Hachette/Little, Brown
3) Going Clear: Scientology, Celebrity, and the Prison of Belief, (RH/Knopf)
4) The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer, (Penguin/Riverhead)
5) The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri, (RH/Knopf)
6) Johnny Carson, Henry Bushkin, HMH
7) The Husband’s Secret, Liane Moriarty, (Penguin/Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
8) Wave, Sonali Deraniyagala, RH/Knopf
9) Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson, (S&S)
10) The Engagements, J. Courtney Sullivan, (RH/Knopf)