2012 National Book Awards

The National Book Awards were presented November 15, 2012, in New York City.

Fiction:	The Round House, Louise Erdrich (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
Nonfiction:	Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, Katharine Boo (Random House)
Poetry:	Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations, David Ferry (University of Chicago Press)
Young People's Literature:	Goblin Secrets, William Alexander (Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)