Year-End Lists

The Economist: 11 Best Books of 2012 (fiction, essays, and poetry)

• Bring Up the Bodies
  Hilary Mantel
• The Forgiven
  Lawrence Osborne
• Toby’s Room
  Pat Barker
• The Dinner
  Herman Koch
• The Garden of Evening Mists
  Tan Twang Eng
• Grimm Tales

  For Young and Old
  Philip Pullman
• Winter

  Five Windows on the Season
  Adam Gopnik
• Pulphead
  John Jeremiah Sullivan
• Three Strong Women
  Marie NDiaye
• Yellow Tulips

  Poems 1968-2011
  James Fenton
• P L A C E
  Jorie Graham