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Books Update.NYT. 100 Notable Books of 2012

Books Update

On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

100 Notable Books of 2012

The year's notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.

Also in the Book Review

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Notable Children's Books of 2012

The best in picture books, middle grade and young adult fiction and nonfiction, selected by the children's book editor of The New York Times Book Review.
Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend: By the Book

The musician and author thinks Ozzy Osbourne wrote the best rock memoir.

Cooking

By WILLIAM GRIMES
Most of the current season's cookbooks are heavily influenced, in visual style and in content, by the relentless advance of food television.

Travel

By JOSHUA HAMMER
This season's travel books abound with journeys inspired by literary lions, including Epicurus, Virginia Woolf and the Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa.

Gardening

By DOMINIQUE BROWNING
This season's gardening books include several that honor the tree's noble status.
The Doors atop their Sunset Strip billboard, circa 1967.

'Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip'

By ROBERT LANDAU
Reviewed by JONATHAN LETHEM
Robert Landau's coffee-table book documents a time when images that originated on album covers or concert posters became oversize roadside attractions.
Stella Adler in the 1941 film

'Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights'

Edited by BARRY PARIS
Reviewed by PETER BOGDANOVICH
The second volume of essays adapted from Stella Adler's legendary theater classes analyzes the works of Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill and others.

'Variety'

By TIM GRAY
Reviewed by ANDY WEBSTER
Tim Gray, the editor in chief of Variety, traces the magazine's evolution decade by decade, along with the trajectory of American culture.
Seal slayers: Frank Wild and M. H. Moyes kill their dinner.

'Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine'

By JASON C. ANTHONY
Reviewed by REBECCA P. SINKLER
Jason C. Anthony's "Hoosh" is a paean to the lousy food available to Antarctic explorers.
Cabinet 28 in Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence in Istanbul.

'The Innocence of Objects'

By ORHAN PAMUK. Translated by EKIN OKLAP.
Reviewed by EDMUND de WAAL
Orhan Pamuk's guidebook to the museum he created to accompany the novel "The Museum of Innocence."
Kate Moss photographed by Satoshi Saikusa, 1995; from

Fashion

By ALEXANDRA JACOBS
New illustrated books commemorate anniversaries for the fashion magazines Vogue and W.

'Capturing Camelot'

By KITTY KELLEY
Reviewed by GREG TOBIN
A tribute to the photographer Stanley Tretick and his images of President John F. Kennedy and his family.

'A Kosher Christmas'

By JOSHUA ELI PLAUT
Reviewed by ELINOR LIPMAN
Joshua Eli Plaut combines history, Jewish studies and sociology in this examination of Hanukkah.

'Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure'

By ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. Edited by JON LELLENBERG and DANIEL STASHOWER.
Reviewed by BILL STREEVER
"Dangerous Work" reproduces Arthur Conan Doyle's handwritten journal and illustrations from his time on an Arctic whaler in 1880.
Custer with some of his scouts in the Montana Territory in the early 1870s.

'Custer'

By LARRY McMURTRY
Reviewed by TIMOTHY EGAN
Larry McMurtry's breezy tour, with many artifacts, of Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Motifs from Lewis Carroll's

'The Graphic Canon'

Edited by RUSS KICK
Reviewed by ANNIE WEATHERWAX
"The Graphic Canon" reimagines the world's literature as comics and visual art.

'Heads in Beds'

By JACOB TOMSKY
Reviewed by CLANCY MARTIN
Jacob Tomsky's memoir about his 10-plus years in the hotel business.
Big D: from left, Harvey Martin, Randy White, Bob Breunig, John Dutton and Ed Jones.

'The Dallas Cowboys'

By JOE NICK PATOSKI
Reviewed by JOHN WILLIAMS
Joe Nick Patoski recounts the wins, losses and exploits of America's Team.
The boxing champ Benny Leonard; illustration by Mark Ulriksen, from

'Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame'

Edited by FRANKLIN FOER and MARC TRACY
Reviewed by DAVID OSHINSKY
Fifty portraits of Jews who have influenced sports in the locker room and beyond.
Simpatici: Richard Rodgers, left, and Lorenz Hart at work, 1936.

'A Ship Without a Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart'

By GARY MARMORSTEIN
Reviewed by BRAD LEITHAUSER
A biography of Lorenz Hart, the lyric-writing partner to the composer Richard Rodgers and perhaps the most popular songsmith-poet in America.
George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin arriving in Los Angeles, 1936.

'The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs'

By MICHAEL FEINSTEIN with IAN JACKMAN
Reviewed by MICHAEL FEINGOLD
The singer-­pianist Michael Feinstein's illustrated take on the Gershwins and their work.
Elayne Boosler was

'We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy'

By YAEL KOHEN
Reviewed by SHEILA WELLER
This oral history traces the rise of women in comedy through the voices of comics, club owners, producers, writers, agents and network executives.
Two stylish brothers, Lords John and Bernard Stuart, strike a pose in a painting by Anthony Van Dyck that is one of 29 works discussed in

'Glittering Images'

By CAMILLE PAGLIA
Reviewed by JOHN ADAMS
"Glittering Images" takes its reader on a tour of 29 of Camille Paglia's favorite artworks.

'Joseph Cornell's Manual of Marvels'

Edited by ANALISA LEPPANEN-GUERRA and DICKRAN TASHJIAN.
Reviewed by JULIE BLOOM
"Joseph Cornell's Manual of Marvels" is a new boxed-set based on a little-known work by the artist that was created by altering and remaking a French agricultural yearbook from 1911.
Richard Burton during the filming of

'The Richard Burton Diaries'

Edited by CHRIS WILLIAMS
Reviewed by JOHN SIMON
"The Richard Burton Diaries" covers the actor's seesawing yet intense marriages with Elizabeth Taylor, his intense reading habits and more.
Buddy Guy

'When I Left Home'

By BUDDY GUY with DAVID RITZ
Reviewed by ALAN LIGHT
A chatty, slim memoir by the blues giant Buddy Guy.
Illustration from

'No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics'

Edited by JUSTIN HALL
Reviewed by GLEN WELDON
A diverse sample of comics depicting the political struggles of representation for lesbians and gay men and the personal struggles of coming out.
The Rolling Stones in Times Square during their first American tour, June 1964.

The Rolling Stones

By PAT IRWIN
A coffee-table book filled with photos and memorabilia from the career of the Stones, and Philip Norman's new biography of Mick Jagger.
Miles Davis at Columbia Studios.

'360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story'

By SEAN WILENTZ
Reviewed by PETER KEEPNEWS
"360 Sound" recounts the history of Columbia Records, from its modest beginnings 125 years ago to its current status as one of the last remaining giants of an industry in turmoil.
At the Guggenheim SoHo, Updike studied the Max Beckmann triptych

'Always Looking: Essays on Art'

By JOHN UPDIKE
Reviewed by FRANCINE PROSE
The essays in "Always Looking" display the qualifications of a novelist that John Updike brought to his moonlighting as an art critic.
From

'Tim Walker: Story Teller'

Photographs by TIM WALKER
Reviewed by VALERIE STEELE
The British photographer Tim Walker has become known for collaborating with a team of makeup artists, painters and builders to construct elaborate sets full of ingenious props.
Cyndi Lauper

'Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir'

By CYNDI LAUPER with JANCEE DUNN
Reviewed by DAVID HAJDU
Cyndi Lauper's memoir of her unglamorous outer-borough upbringing and not entirely glamorous life since MTV made her a pop star in the 1980s.

'Gaudi Pop-Ups'

By COURTNEY WATSON MCCARTHY
Reviewed by POLLY MORRICE
Pop-ups convey the visual impact and appeal of Antoni Gaudi's most loved Barcelona designs.
Andy Warhol's

'Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years'

By MARK ROSENTHAL, MARLA PRATHER, IAN ALTEVEER and REBECCA LOWERY
Reviewed by JOHN YAU
Interviews with 60 artists about the influence of Andy Warhol, based on a show at the Metropolitan Museum.
Edward Burra's

'Shock of the News'

By JUDITH BRODIE with SARAH BOXER, JANINE MILEAF, CHRISTINE POGGI and MATTHEW WITKOVSKY
Reviewed by CARLO ROTELLA
This catalog of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington offers an account of artists' use and abuse of the newspaper from 1909 to 2009.

Shakespeare

By J. D. BIERSDORFER
New apps make Shakespeare's plays and poems more accessible - even enticing - for a 21st-century audience.

Children's Books

An outraged bear goes after his stolen teddy in

Three Bears

By ANITA SILVEY
New books featuring bears, including "Bear Despair," a wordless book by the French illustrator Gaëtan Dorémus.

Bookshelf: Holidays in America

By PAMELA PAUL
Picture books for the season, including the story of three cowboys who are waiting for "Santy Claus."

'Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm'

By PHILIP PULLMAN
Reviewed by MARJORIE INGALL
Philip Pullman tells 50 fairy tales in a straightforward manner, hewing closely to the Grimm originals.

Back Page

Little Big People

By CHELSEA CAIN
A writing group for celebrated adult authors and one for 7-year-olds have more in common than you might suspect.
Mike Huckabee

Inside the List

By GREGORY COWLES
Mike Huckabee, whose book "Dear Chandler, Dear Scarlett" is No. 8 on the hardcover advice list, wants to leave his grandchildren "more than just a vintage guitar that they will sell on eBay the day I die."

Editors' Choice

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback Row

By IHSAN TAYLOR
Paperback books of particular interest.

Book Review Podcast

This week, a big show for the Book Review's big holiday issue, with discussions about our 100 Notable Books of 2012, a dictionary controversy, the Rolling Stones, Joseph Cornell, the Dallas Cowboys, Shakespeare apps and best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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