Year-End Lists

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
4. 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