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Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year 2012
Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year 2012 names 25 books. 9 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.
- A Walk Across the Sunsource (opens in a new tab)
- As Texas Goessource (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercitysource (opens in a new tab)
- Bender: New and Selected Poemssource (opens in a new tab)
- Bring Up the Bodiessource (opens in a new tab)
- Burma: Rivers of Flavorsource (opens in a new tab)
- Dear Lifesource (opens in a new tab)
- Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfectionsource (opens in a new tab)
- Dropped Namessource (opens in a new tab)
- Dumpedsource (opens in a new tab)
- Gone Girlsource (opens in a new tab)
- My Ideal Bookshelfsource (opens in a new tab)
- News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Storysource (opens in a new tab)
- Telegraph Avenuesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Big Screen: The Story of the Moviessource (opens in a new tab)
- The Broken Onessource (opens in a new tab)
- The Cocktail Waitresssource (opens in a new tab)
- The Fault in Our Starssource (opens in a new tab)
- The Flame Alphabetsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Oddssource (opens in a new tab)
- The Orphan Master's Sonsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnsonsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Victory Labsource (opens in a new tab)
- This Is How You Lose Hersource (opens in a new tab)
- What A Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Sensessource (opens in a new tab)
About the Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year
The Tribune's main year-end best-books list, stored as one "Best Books" list per year. 2018-2025 are Christopher Borrelli's 10 best books (12 in 2023, where he counts three novels as one pick). 2010 is Julia Keller's ranked top 10, the only ranked year. 2012-2016 are Printers Row Journal picks: 2012 is staff and contributor favorites (25 picks), 2013 and 2015 are top 10s, 2014 is 11 picks (Stephen King's "Mr. Mercedes and Revival" is one pick, stored as two books), 2016 is five fiction and five nonfiction. 2006 is the top 10 that opens the holiday "Best books of the year" package; the themed gift-guide sections after it are left out. Honorable mentions are left out (2013 Noteworthy, 2015 More great reading, 2019 almost top-10s, 2022 notable books). Missing years: 2007 ran only a themed holiday gift-guide list with no top tier; no 2008 list was found in the Tribune archive; the 2009 favorites lived on a Printers Row blog and the 2011 list ran as a photo gallery, and neither could be read. Genre, poetry, cookbook, children's and Chicago-author lists are left out. Pages were read from chicagotribune.com. Secondary sources: 2017 (photo gallery, now offline) comes from yearendlists.com; yearendlists.com also supplied subtitles for 2017-2025, checked against the Tribune pages for 2018-2025.
Organization: Chicago Tribune. Official site (opens in a new tab)