Year-End Lists

Notable, browsable lists of the year's best music, movies, books, and TV shows. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.
2012 Books

Salon: Top 10 Books of 2012

11 January 2013

Salon: Top 10 Books of 2012 (a poll of nearly 20 critics)

  1. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    Katherine Boo
  2. Bring Up the Bodies
    Hilary Mantel
  3. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
    Ben Fountain
  4. Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
    Andrew Solomon
  5. NW
    Zadie Smith
  6. How Should a Person Be?
    Sheila Heti
  7. Gone Girl
    Gillian Flynn
  8. Arcadia
    Lauren Groff
  9. Beautiful Ruins
    Jess Walter
  10. The Guardians
    Sarah Manguso

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