The best American nonrequired reading 2012

Best American sonnet with vengeance from Zone 3 / Sherman Alexie

Best American very short memoir from the New Yorker / Junot Díaz

Best American manifesto from The Occupied Wall Street Jounal

Best American minutes from the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street from www.nycga.net

Best American observatons at a modern protest movement from McSweeney's / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

Best American reflection on historic protest movements from The Occupied Wall Street Journal / Best American reflection on a modern protest movement from The New York Times / Robert Hass

Best American letters in the mail from The Rumpus / Stephen Elliott, ... [et al.]

Best American palindrome from The Believer / Barry Duncan

Best American tweets responding to the death of Osama bin Laden from www.twitter.com

Best American lonely guy from Jeff, One Lonely Guy / David Shields... [et al.]

A fable for the living / Kevin Brockmeier from Electric Literature

Tin man / Judy Budnitz from This American Life / The years of my birth from The New Yorker / Louise Erdrich

An oral history of Olivia Hamilton from Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons / Olivia Hamilton... [et al.]

Redeployment from Granta / Phil Klay

Kamikaze from A Public Space / Nora Krug

The palace of the people from Narrative Magazine / Anthony Marra

The children from Granta / Julie Otsuka

The street of the house of the sun from The Pinch / Michael Poore

Beautiful monsters from Tin House / Eric Puchner

Bellwether from Water-stone Review /

Mark Robert Rapacz

The love act from Raritan / Chaz Reetz-Laiolo

South Beach from Annalemma / Ryan Rivas

The amazing adventures of Phoenix Jones from GQ / Jon Ronson

Tenth of December from The New Yorker / George Saunders

Transcription of a eulogy / Mona Simpson

Peyton's place from GQ / John Jeremiah Sullivan

A brief history of the art form known as "Hortisculpture" from Optic Nerve / Adrian Tomine

Outlaw from The New York Times Magazine / Jose Antonio Vargas

Don't eat cat from Byliner / Jess Walter

Paper tigers from New York / Wesley Yang. Best American sonnet with vengeance from Zone 3 / Sherman Alexie

Best American very short memoir from the New Yorker / Junot Díaz

Best American manifesto from The Occupied Wall Street Jounal

Best American minutes from the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street from www.nycga.net

Best American observatons at a modern protest movement from McSweeney's / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

Best American reflection on historic protest movements from The Occupied Wall Street Journal / Best American reflection on a modern protest movement from The New York Times / Robert Hass

Best American letters in the mail from The Rumpus / Stephen Elliott, ... [et al.]

Best American palindrome from The Believer / Barry Duncan

Best American tweets responding to the death of Osama bin Laden from www.twitter.com

Best American lonely guy from Jeff, One Lonely Guy / David Shields... [et al.]

A fable for the living / Kevin Brockmeier from Electric Literature

Tin man / Judy Budnitz from This American Life / The years of my birth from The New Yorker / Louise Erdrich

An oral history of Olivia Hamilton from Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons / Olivia Hamilton... [et al.]

Redeployment from Granta / Phil Klay

Kamikaze from A Public Space / Nora Krug

The palace of the people from Narrative Magazine / Anthony Marra

The children from Granta / Julie Otsuka

The street of the house of the sun from The Pinch / Michael Poore

Beautiful monsters from Tin House / Eric Puchner

Bellwether from Water-stone Review /

Mark Robert Rapacz

The love act from Raritan / Chaz Reetz-Laiolo

South Beach from Annalemma / Ryan Rivas

The amazing adventures of Phoenix Jones from GQ / Jon Ronson

Tenth of December from The New Yorker / George Saunders

Transcription of a eulogy / Mona Simpson

Peyton's place from GQ / John Jeremiah Sullivan

A brief history of the art form known as "Hortisculpture" from Optic Nerve / Adrian Tomine

Outlaw from The New York Times Magazine / Jose Antonio Vargas

Don't eat cat from Byliner / Jess Walter

Paper tigers from New York / Wesley Yang.