The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 [Paperback]

The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected — and most popular — of its kind.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012includes

Kevin Brockmeier, Judy Budnitz, Junot Díaz, Louise Erdrich,
Nora Krug, Julie Otsuka, Eric Puchner, George Saunders,
Adrian Tomine, Jess Walter, and others

A selection of the best writing, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and blogs, published during 2011. Edited by Dave Eggers.

If you need to fall in love with reading again–or just want a reminder that high school students deserve a lot more than their reading lists give them–then THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2012 is the book for you.
-Bust

 

As a devoted fan of this series (this is the 11th volume), I can report thatthis year's anthology of 32 selections might be the best yet.
-Elizabeth Taylor,Chicago Tribune

 

“An eclectic annual that will leave readers marveling over many of the discoveries...category-defying...All readers will find their own favoritesthat justify the collection as a whole.”
-Kirkus Reviews

 

Lively, eclectic and surprising...
-Minneapolis Star Tribune