I am always curious about what other people are reading. So I researched numerous sources of "best books of 2012," and although some of my 2012 favorites were on many of those lists, most were not. There were a number of books not on my list that kept popping up on other best of lists. Being the eternal, nieve optimist, I assume they must be good! So here's are the top 19:
Running The Rift, by Naomi
Benaron
People Who Eat
Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman, by Richard Lloyd Parry
The Casual Vacancy,
by J.K. Rowling
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour
Bookstore, by Robin Sloan
The Passage of
Power, by Robert A. Caro
Behind the Beautiful
Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo
The Yellow Birds,
by Kevin Powers
Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple
The Age of Miracles,
by Karen Thompson Walker
A Grown-Up Kind of
Pretty, by Joshilyn Jackson
The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller
In the Shadow of the Banyan, by Vaddey Ratner
Billy Lynn's Long
Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain
Flight Behavior,
by Barbara Kingsolver
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948, by Madeleine Albright
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir, by Jenny Lawson
Bring Up the Bodies
(Thomas Cromwell, #2), by Hilary Mantel
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