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11 best books of December, according to Amazon's editors

Looking for a holiday read for yourself or a gift for a voracious reader? These are the best new titles this month, hand-picked by Amazon's editors. Amazon鈥檚 editorial director of books and Kindle Sara Nelson tells us why they were chosen.

9. 'Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland,' by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

The first full-length bio of the fashion visionary, 鈥淓mpress鈥 weaves the fascinating story of Diana Dalziel Vreeland, an Upper East Side girl who goes on to work at Harper鈥檚 Bazaar, Vogue, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where her fearless imagination and radical innovation helped reinvent the way we think about style. 鈥淒iana Vreeland was a great character, an iconoclast, a champion for women,鈥 says Nelson. 鈥淪he was a firebrand... irresistible, manipulative, narcissistic... She was a lot, and this book was a lot.鈥

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