Publishers Lunch

We have aggregated and tabulated over 50 "Best Books of 2012" lists from retailers, newspapers, magazines, trades, individual critics, major awards and more to once again announce the consensus, absolute Best of the Best of 2012. The two top titles, Katherine Boo's BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS and Hilary Mantel's BRING…

Yes I know, another favorite books of 2012 list. And truth be told, many of those on mine mirror our consensus "Best of the Best" tabulation. To save some time and space, I'd like to take a cue from the game show Wheel of Fortune and the beginning of every…

USA Today agrees with a good part of the consensus on some of the best books of the year, though they add some other contenders in their list of favorites for 2012. 1. Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver 2. Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel 3. Are You My…

The Wall Street Journal published their lists of best fiction and nonfiction over the weekend. Their picks are a bit more distinctive than some of the other "best of" lists, with independent presses comprising a good portion of the fiction picks (including titles from the University of Chicago Press, Small…

Apple's iTunes named their top 10 lists for the year across all product categories, including their favorite books--with Peter Heller's The Dog Stars their top novel, John Green's The Fault In Our Stars their favorite YA book, and Katherine Boo's much-heralded Behind the Beautiful Forevers their top nonfiction title. Fiction…

The Best of 2012 lists continue to stream in (which means we'll have another update to our "best of the best" master list very soon.) Entertainment Weekly offered its 10 best fiction and nonfiction lists: Fiction Hilary Mantel, BRING UP THE BODIES Adam Johnson, THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON Jess Walter,…

The latest set of top 10 lists comes from Time magazine, which names John Green's YA novel their No. 1 work of fiction and joins GoodReads as the first critics list to rank JK Rowling's novel for adults among the year's best: Fiction 1. The Fault in Our Stars, John…

GoodReads announced the winners of their contest asking readers to vote for their favorite titles of the year across 20 categories. If you just look at the topline results, JK Rowling's THE CASUAL VACANCY actually came out on top in the fiction category, well ahead of runner up, Emily Giffin's…

The season for selecting the best books of the year has begun in earnest--with a number of new lists in recent days (noted below)--and will continue through New Year's. For the fourth year, Publishers Lunch will be following and aggregating those lists from all over to form our can't-miss consensus…

The New York Times Book Review named their annual 100 Notable Books in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction (which will run in this Sunday's print edition) with their 10 Best list to follow next week. Slate compiled their best books of 2012 list by polling their staff (including their human resources…