Fifty-three Powell’s employees picked their top five books of 2012. That’s… a lot of books.
(And we’re pinning them all on Pinterest.)
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Inspired by our friends over at Word, here are the top 20 best sellers at our stores this past week.
1. Portland Events 2013 Wall Calendar by Big Weekend Calendars
3. Portlandia by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein
4. The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
5. Wildwood by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis
6. I Could Pee on This by Francesco Marciuliano
7. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
8. The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney
9. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
10. How Music Works by David Byrne
11. America Again by Stephen Colbert
12. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
13. The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman
14. Under Wildwood by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis
15. The Onion Book of Known Knowledge by The Onion
16. Underwater Dogs by Seth Casteel
17. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
18. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
19. Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
20. Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi
(Plus a whole bunch of greeting cards.)
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Omnishambles beats Eurogeddon, Gif and Mobot as Oxford word of the year
America gets GIF; England gets OMNISHAMBLES.
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The 2012 National Book Awards are tonight! We’ll be streaming the event live at www.nationalbook.org on Wednesday, November 14, beginning at approximately 7:15pm.
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