Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year2012

Given by Publishers Weekly

Other Names: Publisher's Weekly Best Book, Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
81 Works / 82 Items 95,138 Books 5,579 Reviews ½ 3.9
Categories:
All, Best Children's Book (2), Children's Fiction (3), Fiction (317), Lifestye (1), Lifestyle (77), Mass Market (10), Mysteries (6), Mystery (22), Mystery/Thriller (101), Non-Fiction (1), Nonfiction (386), Poetry (10), Religion (83), Religious Fiction (7), Romance (45), SF/Fantasy/Horror (9), Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror (79), No Category (49)
Years:
All, 2023 (2), 2020 (3), 2019 (83), 2018 (68), 2017 (84), 2016 (77), 2015 (75), 2014 (92), 2013 (91), 2012 (82), 2011 (85), 2010 (72), 2009 (92), 2008 (111), 2007 (100), 2006 (68), 2005 (1), 2003 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (3), 1995 (1)
WorkCategoryYear
Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga
Fiction2012
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
Fiction2012
Little Sinners, and Other Stories (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction) by Karen Brown
Fiction2012
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
Fiction2012
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
Fiction2012
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
Fiction2012
Broken Harbour by Tana French
Fiction2012
Ghosting by Kirby Gann
Fiction2012
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Fiction2012
Pure by Andrew Miller
Fiction2012
Magnificence by Lydia Millet
Fiction2012
Dear Life by Alice Munro
Fiction2012
The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead
Fiction2012
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
Fiction2012
The Cove by Ron Rash
Fiction2012
The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
Fiction2012
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
Fiction2012
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Fiction2012
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Fiction2012
Cast On, Bind Off: 54 Step-by-Step Methods by Leslie Ann Bestor
Lifestyle2012
Concussions and Our Kids: America's Leading Expert on How to Protect Young Athletes and Keep Sports Safe by Robert Cantu
Lifestyle2012
Burma: Rivers of Flavor by Naomi Duguid
Lifestyle2012
Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust by Ina Garten
Lifestyle2012
Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry: Photographs of Beautiful Contemporary Beadwork (500 Series) by Ray Hemachandra
Lifestyle2012
Zen Gardens: The Complete Works of Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's Leading Garden Designer by Mira Locher
Lifestyle2012
Knit Your Own Cat: Easy-to-Follow Patterns for 16 Frisky Felines by Sally Muir
Lifestyle2012
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook: Recipes and Wisdom from an Obsessive Home Cook by Deb Perelman
Lifestyle2012
Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America by Maricel E. Presilla
Lifestyle2012
Small-Space Container Gardens: Transform Your Balcony, Porch, or Patio with Fruits, Flowers, Foliage, and Herbs by Fern Richardson
Lifestyle2012
Exit Plan by Larry Bond
Mystery/Thriller2012
Creole Belle by James Lee Burke
Mystery/Thriller2012
Kill You Twice by Chelsea Cain
Mystery/Thriller2012
The Black Box by Michael Connelly
Mystery/Thriller2012
The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
Mystery/Thriller2012
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Mystery/Thriller2012
Dead Anyway by Chris Knopf
Mystery/Thriller2012
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
Mystery/Thriller2012
Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton
Mystery/Thriller2012
Phantom by Jo Nesbø
Mystery/Thriller2012
Mandarin Gate by Eliot Pattison
Mystery/Thriller2012
Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith
Mystery/Thriller2012
My Cross to Bear by Gregg Allman
Nonfiction2012
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
Nonfiction2012
The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America by Edward J. Blum
Nonfiction2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Nonfiction2012
On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature by Melanie Challenger
Nonfiction2012
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain De Botton
Nonfiction2012
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
Nonfiction2012
Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie
Nonfiction2012
Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
Nonfiction2012
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Nonfiction2012
The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Nonfiction2012
The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson
Nonfiction2012
Louise: Amended by Louise Krug
Nonfiction2012
The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir by Claude Lanzmann
Nonfiction2012
Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature by Daniel Levin Becker
Nonfiction2012
Double Cross : The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
Nonfiction2012
A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald by Errol Morris
Nonfiction2012
Man in the Blue Moon by Michael Morris
Nonfiction2012
Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels
Nonfiction2012
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
Nonfiction2012
Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters by Joseph Roth
Nonfiction2012
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
Nonfiction2012
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Nonfiction2012
My American Revolution by Robert Sullivan
Nonfiction2012
Stranger Magic: charmed states and The Arabian Nights by Marina Warner
Nonfiction2012
The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration by Alec Wilkinson
Nonfiction2012
Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis by Lauren F. Winner
Nonfiction2012
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance by Marilyn Yalom
Nonfiction2012
The Bridegroom Wore Plaid by Grace Burrowes
Romance2012
A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare
Romance2012
Love on the Run by Zuri Day
Romance2012
Mrs. Drew Plays Her Hand by Carla Kelly
Romance2012
Dog Days by Elsa Watson
Romance2012
The Troupe by Robert Jackson Bennett
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror2012
The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror2012
At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories by Kij Johnson
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror2012
The Games by Ted Kosmatka
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror2012
Wonders of the Invisible World by Patricia A. McKillip
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror2012
The Shape of Desire (A Shifting Circle Novel) by Sharon Shinn
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror2012
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories by Ann VanderMeer
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror2012
Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature by Daniel Levin Becker
2012

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