Library Journal: Top 10 Books of 2012

(alphabetically by author)

• By the Iowa Sea: A Memoir of Disaster and Love – Joe Blair
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity – Katherine Boo
• A Land More Kind Than Home – Wiley Cash
• Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk – Ben Fountain
• Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth – Katherine Frank
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale – Graham Joyce
• The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
• The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer – Anne-Marie O’Connor
• NW – Zadie Smith
• Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from “Dear Sugar” – Cheryl Strayed