Year-End Lists

A curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

Books
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk - Ben Fountain

The Center for Fiction 2012 First Novel Prize

Publishers Weekly 10 Best Books of 2012

Kathryn Schulz: New York Top 10 Books of 2012

New York Times 10 Best Books of 2012

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk - Ben Fountain

Washington Post The 10 Best Books of 2012

The Round House - Louise Erdrich

National Book Award Fiction 2012

Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo

National Book Award Nonfiction 2012

Into the Silence - Wade Davis

The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2012 Award

Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel

The Man Booker Prize 2012 Award

The Forgotten Waltz - Anne Enright

Carnegie Medal Fiction 2012

Catherine the Great - Robert K. Massie

Carnegie Medal Nonfiction 2012

Even the Dogs - Jon McGregor

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

Orange Prize Fiction 2012

The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction 2012

We Others - Steven Millhauser

The Story Prize 2011

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011

Swamplandia! - Karen Russell

Maureen Corrigan: NPR 10 Best Novels of 2011

The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal

Benjamin Schwarz: Atlantic Books of the Year 2011

Lamb - Bonnie Nadzam

The Center for Fiction 2011 First Novel Prize

Alexander McQueen - Andrew Bolton & others (text), Sølve Sundsbø (photographs)

Library Journal Ten Best Books of 2011

Swamplandia! - Karen Russell

New York Times Ten Best Books of 2011

The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides

Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011

Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward

National Book Award Fiction 2011

The Swerve - Stephen Greenblatt

National Book Award Nonfiction 2011