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TIME Best Books of the Year 2012
TIME Best Books of the Year 2012 names 20 books across 2 categories. 17 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.
Fiction
- 1The Fault in Our Starssource (opens in a new tab)
- 2Bring Up the Bodiessource (opens in a new tab)
- 3Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walksource (opens in a new tab)
- 4At Lastsource (opens in a new tab)
- 5The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels Theresource (opens in a new tab)
- 6The Casual Vacancysource (opens in a new tab)
- 7Building Storiessource (opens in a new tab)
- 8NWsource (opens in a new tab)
- 9Where'd You Go, Bernadettesource (opens in a new tab)
- 10This Is How You Lose Hersource (opens in a new tab)
Nonfiction
- 1Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956source (opens in a new tab)
- 2The Passage of Powersource (opens in a new tab)
- 3Far from the Treesource (opens in a new tab)
- 4My Friend Dahmersource (opens in a new tab)
- 5Are You My Mother?source (opens in a new tab)
- 6Wildsource (opens in a new tab)
- 7Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Childsource (opens in a new tab)
- 8People Who Eat Darknesssource (opens in a new tab)
- 9The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imaginationsource (opens in a new tab)
- 10The Black Countsource (opens in a new tab)
About the TIME Best Books of the Year
Fiction and Nonfiction top 10 lists by year (a single combined top 10 in 2006 and 2025) plus TIME's unranked 100 Must-Read Books, published 2020-2025. Separate YA/children's and genre lists are excluded. 2012-2013 cite entertainment.time.com, TIME's arts site at the time.
Organization: TIME. Official site (opens in a new tab)