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Salon: Top 10 Books of 2012

11 January 2013

Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo

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

[see also 2022]

  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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