Year-End Lists

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The Good Lord Bird - James McBride

Fiction 2013 National Book Award

The Unwinding - George Packer

Nonfiction 2013 National Book Award

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride

Best Fiction of 2013 Goldsmiths Prize

The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton

Best Fiction of 2013 The Booker Prize

May We Be Forgiven - A.M. Homes

Best Fiction of 2013 Women's Prize

Action, Figure - Frank Hinton

21 Favorite Books of 2012 Dennis Cooper

Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo

Top 10 Books of 2012 Salon

Top 10 Books of 2012 Library Journal

Top 15 Books of 2012 Atlantic: Benjamin Schwarz

100 Notable Books of 2012 New York Times

7 Favorite Books of 2012 Daily Beast: Tina Brown

Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel

11 Best Books of 2012 Economist

10 Best Books of 2012 Publishers Weekly

Top 10 Books of 2012 New York: Kathryn Schulz

10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times

Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo

The 10 Best Books of 2012 Washington Post

Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel

Best Fiction of 2012 The Booker Prize

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

Best Fiction of 2012 Women's Prize

Catherine the Great - Robert K. Massie

Nonfiction 2012 Carnegie Medal

The Forgotten Waltz - Anne Enright

Fiction 2012 Carnegie Medal

100 Notable Books of 2011 New York Times

Swamplandia! - Karen Russell

10 Best Novels of 2011 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal

Books of the Year 2011 Atlantic: Benjamin Schwarz

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

Ten Best Books of 2011 Library Journal

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