Year-End Lists

Library Journal: Top 10 Books of 2012 (alphabetically by author)

• By the Iowa Sea

  A Memoir of Disaster and Love
  Joe Blair
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers

  Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
  Katherine Boo
• A Land More Kind Than Home
  Wiley Cash
• Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
  Ben Fountain
• Crusoe

  Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth
  Katherine Frank
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale
  Graham Joyce
• The Song of Achilles
  Madeline Miller
• The Lady in Gold

  The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
  Anne-Marie O’Connor
• NW
  Zadie Smith
• Tiny Beautiful Things

  Advice on Love and Life from “Dear Sugar”
  Cheryl Strayed