Top 5 Books “The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears,” Dinaw Mengestu (Riverhead) “The Country of Men,” Hisham Matar (Dial Press) “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” Naomi Klein (Metropolitan) “Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932,” John Richardson (Knopf) “Sleeping and Waking,” Michael O’Brien (Flood Editions) —John Freeman
Top 5 Books “Falling Man,” Don DeLillo (Scribner) “Tree of Smoke,” Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) “Away,” Amy Bloom (Random House) “Then We Came to the End,” Joshua Ferris (Little, Brown and Company) “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” Junot Diaz (Riverhead) —Tom Lynch
Top 5 Graphic Novels “Exit Wounds,” Rutu Modan (Drawn and Quarterly) “Misery Loves Comedy,” Ivan Brunetti (Fantagraphics) “Shortcomings,” Adrian Tomine (Drawn and Quarterly) “Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Two: 1995-Present,” Chris Ware (Drawn and Quarterly) “King-Cat Classix,” John Porcellino (Drawn and Quarterly) —Ray Pride
Top 5 Graphic Novels “Death Note 9-12,” Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata (Viz) “Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Vol. One,” Jack Kirby (DC) “Exit Wounds,” Rutu Modan (Drawn & Quarterly) “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 1: The Long Way Home,” Joss Whedon (Dark Horse) “The Arrival,” Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic) —James VanOsdol
Top 5 Cautionary Polemics “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” Naomi Klein (Metropolitan) “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot,” Naomi Wolf (Chelsea Green) “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army,” Jeremy Schaill (DaCapo) “Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches,” John W. Dean (Viking Adult) “Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business,” David Mamet (Pantheon) —Ray Pride
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