Year-End Lists

Benjamin Schwarz: Top 15 Books of 2012, as published by The Atlantic

• The Great Sea
  David Abulafia
• Time’s Shadow
  Arnold J. Bauer
• Good Behaviour
  Molly Keane
• Bring Up the Bodies
  Hilary Mantel
• Moscow, 1937
  Karl Schlögel

The Runners Up

• What They Do in the Dark

  A Novel
  Amanda Coe
• The Book of Common Prayer

  The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662
  Brian Cummings (editor)
• Orderly and Humane

  The Expulsion of Germans After the Second World War
  R.M. Douglas
• Fairness and Freedom

  A History of Two Open Societies, New Zealand and the United States
  David Hackett Fischer
• The Road to Ruins
  Ian Graham
• Evening’s Empire

  A History of Night in Early Modern Europe
  Craig Koslofsky
• Dear Life
  Alice Munro
• Sir Walter Raleigh
  Mark Nicholls and Penry Williams
• Masters of the Planet

  The Search for Our Human Origins
  Ian Tattersall
• The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 6

  1933-1941
  Virginia Woolf, edited by Stuart N. Clarke