And now, here is my complete list of my favorite books read in 2012.
- Day for Night by Frederick Reiken
- May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
- Wonders of the Invisible World by Patricia A. McKillip
- Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Blunt
- Among Others by Jo Walton
- Coral Glynn by Peter Cameron
- The Paternity Test by Michael Lowenthal
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro
- All This Talk of Love by Christopher Castellani
- The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
- The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen
- Elza’s Kitchen by Marc Fitten
- Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
- Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
Two more books got a special mention:
- The First Time I Heard… Kate Bush, ed. by Scott Heim
- Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul and Rock and Roll by Ann & Nancy Wilson with Charles R. Cross
Then there were ten other books that I considered for my list of favorite books read in 2012, that for whatever reason, just didn’t make the cut. I would say they are all good books and well worth reading. These are listed in alphabetical order.
- Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
- Calling Invisible Women by Jeanne Ray
- Canada by Richard Ford
- The Collective by Don Lee
- Falling Backwards: A Memoir by Jann Arden
- Fantastic Four: Season One by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and David Marquez
- The First Warm Evening of the Year by Jamie Saul
- Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
- The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Eviston
- Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Finally, five or six more books I read that just didn’t make the cut at all. Not that they were bad, but they just weren’t in the league of the other books I’d read. There were really only a couple of books that I either actively didn’t like, or that disappointed me. I will not be listing these books here. Ask me privately if you want to know what they were.