Publishers Weekly inaugurated their Top Ten Best Books list last year (a selection of the best of the best from their long list of best of the year). No-longer-sister-publication Library Journal follows suit with their own Top Ten list today.

Amazon also announced a Top Ten list today. LJ’s list is in alpha order. For comparison, we’ve arranged the titles by where they appear on Amazon’s Top 100.

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Crown) — #1 on Amazon

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Random) — #5 on Amazon

• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) — #6 on Amazon

• The Passage by Justin Cronin (Ballantine) — #16 on Amazon

• The Tiger by John Vaillant (Knopf) — #34 on Amazon

• Room by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown) — #35 on Amazon

• By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) — #36 on Amazon

• How To Live, Or, a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell (Other Press) — #86 on Amazon

• Walker Evans Decade by Decade (Hatje Cantz) — not on Amazon’s Top 100

• American Terroir by Rowan Jacobsen (Bloomsbury) — not on Amazon’s Top 100

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