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 lists of The Best of the Best of 2012. With about 20 lists logged so far, there is already a clear pattern to this year’s competition, with Booker winner Hilary Mantel and National Book Award winner Katherine Boo the clear favorites in fiction and nonfiction respectively. Here is our first […]