National Book Award for Nonfiction 2012

Nominations

Winner	Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity	Katherine Boo
	The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power	Robert A. Caro
	Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945–1956	Anne Applebaum
	The Boy Kings of Texas	Domingo Martinez
	House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East	Anthony Shadid