The best books of 2012, according to Wall Street Journal

Twelve Months of Reading

Judd Apatow: "Who I Am" by Pete Townshend.

John Banville: Michael Gorra's "Portrait of a Novel"

Alan S. Blinder: Nate Silver's "The Signal and the Noise"

Tom Brokaw: Jon Meacham's "Thomas Jefferson."

Craig Brown: Robert Caro's ongoing life of Lyndon Johnson

Jeb Bush: Charles Murray in "Coming Apart''

Susan Cain: "The Song of Achilles," by Madeline Miller

Jim DeMint: Marco Rubio's memoir, "An American Son,"

Arne Duncan: Paul Tough's "How Children Succeed"

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