Best Books Of 2012 in North America: Strong Showing By Random House

Lists like “The 10 Best Books of 2012” and “100 Notable Books of 2012” published by the “New York Times Book Review” in the U.S. are not only good retrospectives of the year in literature, they are provide valuable and popular gift recommendations for Christmas. Accordingly, each year Random House’s U.S. imprints are eager to see how their authors and books did on these lists. And year after year a significant percentage of the slots on this list are occupied by their books and authors.

This year Random House, Inc., is behind three of the “10 Best Books of 2012,” while the “100 Notable Books of 2012” include fully 27 books from Random House publishers. And Random House Children's Books placed two titles on the also just-released, small but exquisite list of “Notable Children's Books of 2012” published by the "New York Times Book Review." The publishers at Random House of Canada are just as successful as their colleagues in the U.S. In Canada, it is the noted "Toronto Globe and Mail" that publishes a list of the 100 best books of the year, known as the “Globe 100.” Random House of Canada publishers together command 31 of the 100 slots on this list, which is similarly important to Christmas sales.