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This has not been an easy task - choosing 12 novels from the vast and brilliant offerings of the year, but here you have it.

How did she do it? How did a 19-year-old college dropout become, by age 29, Silicon Valley’s first ­female billionaire entrepreneur, a corporate leader with a personal chef who made her green vegetable juices?

For Raymond Bonner, sitting on the beach wasn’t going to cut it. But buying a bookstore on the beach might.

"A good bookseller is not someone who sells you the book you knew you wanted, but someone who sells you the book you didn't know you wanted."