EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.,
Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hudson
Booksellers, a brand unit of travel retailer Hudson Group, which is
a wholly owned subsidiary of Dufry, AG of Basel, Switzerland, has announced its list of
the Best Books published in 2012. Hudson operates 70 full-service Hudson
Booksellers bookstores. Hudson
also sells books in over 450 Hudson News newsstands in airports and
transportation terminals throughout North
America.
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This year's selection includes the 10 Best Fiction, 10 Best
Nonfiction, 5 Best Young Readers, and 5 Best Business Interest
books, selected through a nominated shortlist and voting process by
a panel of Hudson bookselling
professionals and managers across the country. Books were selected
for achievements ranging from literary style and innovation,
entertainment value and readability, to timeliness and treatment of
subjects and themes.
Drop Dead Healthy by A.J.
Jacobs was chosen as Book of the Year. On hearing the news
of its selection, Mr. Jacobs noted: "I'm honored because I'm such a
Hudson Booksellers fan. I've spent many hours browsing the aisles
of this wonderful bookstore. No doubt it's the best part of the
airport experience, right up there with scoring the last available
electrical outlet in LaGuardia's Concourse C." Check out the
rest of A.J. Jacobs' amusing
comments on HudsonBooksellers.com.
As part of the celebration, all Hudson Booksellers and Hudson
News outlets will offer a 20% discount to our customers on the Book
of the Year and most other Best of 2012 titles, from November 20 through December 31, 2012.
As an additional service to customers, complimentary "Best
Books" brochures will be available in our stores and online from
mid-November through the holiday book buying season. The brochures
feature reviews, Bookseller Top 10 lists and excerpts from selected
books. Copies of most titles will be prominently displayed in all
Hudson Booksellers and large Hudson News stores, starting
November 20th. Hudson's Best of 2012 will be featured on
HudsonBooksellers.com and also on our Facebook page,
Facebook.com/HudsonBooksellers.
The books are listed alphabetically by author:
Best Fiction: The Twelve – Justin Cronin; Memoirs of an Imaginary
Friend – Matthew Dicks; The
Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving – Jonathan Evison; Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn; The Dog Stars –
Peter Heller; Flight Behavior
– Barbara Kingsolver; The Yellow
Birds – Kevin Powers; The
Light Between Oceans – M.L
Stedman; Beautiful Ruins – Jess Walter; Alif the Unseen –
G. Willow Wilson.
Best NonFiction: The Finish – Mark Bowden; Mortality – Christopher Hitchens; Drop Dead Healthy –
A.J. Jacobs; Let's Pretend This
Never Happened – Jenny Lawson;
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of
Power – Jon Meacham; How to
be a Woman – Caitlin Moran;
Joseph Anton – Salman
Rushdie; The End of Your Life Book Club – Will Schwalbe; Wild – Cheryl Strayed;
Comet's Tale – Steven
Wolf.
Best Young Readers: The Fault in Our Stars –
John Green; The Fantastic Flying
Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore –
William Joyce; This is Not My
Hat – Jon Klassen; Cinder
– Marrisa Meyer; More – I.C
Springman.
Best Business Interest: Leadership 2.0 –
Travis Bradberry; Quiet –
Susan Cain; The Power of
Habit – Charles Duhigg; End
This Depression Now – Paul
Krugman; Heart Smart, Guts & Luck – Anthony Tjan.
Hudson Booksellers' 2012 Book of the Year: Drop
Dead Healthy – A.J.
Jacob.
About Hudson Group: Hudson Group, the largest duty-paid
travel retailer in North America,
is a wholly-owned subsidiary of international travel retailer Dufry
AG (DUFN) of Basel, Switzerland.
The company operates some 650 Hudson News, Hudson Booksellers,
cafes, specialty retail and duty free shops in 70 airports and
transportation terminals in the United
States and Canada, and
additional newsstands in 12 more countries around the world. The
combined Dufry/Hudson entity
oversees over 1,200 stores in 45 countries and 155 airports and
transportation terminals.
SOURCE Hudson Group
