Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2012

Nonfiction

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers

  Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
  Katherine Boo
• House of Stone

  A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
  Anthony Shadid
• Iron Curtain

  The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956
  Anne Applebaum
• Marigold

  The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam
  James Hershberg
• Why Nations Fail

  The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
  Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Fiction

• Arcadia
  Lauren Groff
• Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
  Ben Fountain
• Bring Up the Bodies
  Hilary Mantel
• Broken Harbor
  Tana French
• Canada
  Richard Ford