Name your favorite books of the year
Our favorite books of 2012 that were published in (or around) 2012
This year has seven weeks to go, but by now you should have a good idea which books are your favorites for 2012.
We want to know which 2011/2012 releases really hit the spot. What books published within the last 18 months do you love/possess ten copies of/wish to be buried with?
Post your lists (You can name as few as 5 titles but not more than 20, please) in Comments and we’ll publish the survey results in three weeks. At the end of the survey we’re raffling off gift certificates from National Bookstore—just in time for the holiday shopping frenzy.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
November 8th, 2012 at 07:56
The Fault In Our Stars (John Green– DFTBA!!!!!!!!!!!)
The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach)
Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
Easy (Tammara Webber)
The Rules of Civility (Amor Towles)
Overseas (Beatriz Williams)
The Opportunist (Tarryn Fisher)
Faking It and Ordinary World (Elisa Lorello)
November 8th, 2012 at 08:00
Here’s my list:
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Wool by Hugh Howey
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
11/22/63 by Stephen King
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan
Dodger by Terry Pratchett
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
November 8th, 2012 at 14:06
Oh no. I read mostly older works this year. I only have two 2011/2012 books for this year:
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (I was wowed last year so I reread it this year)
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
I would also love to see Cloud Atlas top the survey, but I already read that last year.
November 8th, 2012 at 16:11
My list includes:
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Everyday by David Levithan
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
November 8th, 2012 at 17:13
Invisible Monsters Remix by Chuck Palahniuk
The Enchantress by Michael Scott
November 8th, 2012 at 18:19
Books I wish to be buried with:
The Song of Achilles:
by Madeline Miller
The Marriage Plot:
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Zone One: by Colson Whitehead
The Age of Miracles: by Karen Thompson Walker
At Last: by Edward St Aubyn
November 8th, 2012 at 18:34
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Coraline
November 8th, 2012 at 20:11
from 2012
Mark Helprin – In Light and in Shadow
David Foster Wallace – The Pale King
Edward St. Aubyn – At Last
Junot Diaz – This is How You Lose Her
Alice Munro – Dear Life (This is cheating, as the story collection will only come out next week. But it’s the book I’ve been waiting for all year, and personally, any year Ms Munro comes out with a book is a great year, and that book always winds up as one of that year’s best.)
from 2011
Chad Harbach – The Art of Fielding
Haruki Murakami – 1Q84
Eleanor Henderson – Ten Thousand Saints
Teju Cole – Open City
Alan Hollinghurst – The Stranger’s Child
November 8th, 2012 at 22:45
Oops, forgot to put down:
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (Cheryl Strayed)
November 9th, 2012 at 05:14
The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
A Sense of An Ending (Julian Barnes)
November 9th, 2012 at 08:51
books–released or reprinted in 2011/2012 –read in 2012:
1) cloud atlas *– mahusay pala talaga–and just started life of pi (anglee movie cover). wanted to finish both before the movies are shown here.
2) portions of eating the dinosaur by klosterman
3) astonishing x-men omnibus by whedon and cassaday. *
4) bakit hindi ka crush ng crush mo? by prof bautista
5) the emperor of all maladies by mukherjee **
6) digital photography book vol 4 by kelby. (the weakest in the series)
7) portions of best american nonrequired reading 2011 edited by eggers **
8) small portions of arguably by hitchens
9) house of silk by horowitz
10) dragon tattoo girl
11) re-read steve jobs by isaacson *
*the best–joss whedon, david mitchell, steve jobs (the man, his quirks and masterstrokes are probably good for five volumes. isaacson should endorse transcripts and other matls to another author, like auletta or gladwell, who should then write another jobs book),
**runners-up: nonrequired 2011, cancer book by mukherjee,
fantastic reads in 2012, but book not released in 2012: library of america: thurber edited by keillor
November 9th, 2012 at 10:49
George R.R. Martin – A Dance with Dragons
Zone One – Colson Whitehead
Simon Reynold’s “Retromania”
Coloring for Grown-ups by Ryan Hunter
Jarvis Cocker’s “Mother, Brother, Lover” (It’s just a collection of Cocker’s lyrics with hilarious annotations but I wish to be buried with this book because Jarvis lovingly signed it).
November 9th, 2012 at 13:10
“Telegraph Avenue” by Michael Chabon
“A Dance With Dragons” by George R. R. Martin
“Invisible Monsters Remix” by Chuck Palahniuk
“The Round House” by Louise Erdrich
“11/22/63” by Stephen King
“Damned” by Chuck Palahniuk (2011)
“The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds” by Alexander McCall Smith
“This Is How You Lose Her” by Junot Diaz
“Live By Night” by Dennis Lehane
November 9th, 2012 at 13:30
1. Daytripper- Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba
2. Building Stories- Chris Ware
3. 1Q84- Haruki Murakami
4. The Sense of an Ending- Julian Barnes
5. A Dance with Dragons- George R.R. Martin
November 9th, 2012 at 15:25
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz. If it were a little cheaper, I’d be giving it out to all of my friends this Christmas.
November 9th, 2012 at 20:12
A Dance With Dragons – GRR Martin
November 11th, 2012 at 09:51
i’ve already listed the books i want to be buried with–not all of the following will be added to that list–but i enjoyed reading these:
1. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2. Robocalypse by Daniel F. Wilson
3. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
4. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
5. Testament (eBook) by M. Protacio-De Guzman
November 11th, 2012 at 10:11
The Fault In Our Stars (John Green)
Lumayo ka nga sa akin (bob ong)
Skyworld series (ian sta. maria)
Once (eve 2, anna carey)
Graveyard book (neil gaiman)
trese series (budjette tan)
November 11th, 2012 at 10:33
The Fault in our Stars (John Green)
Every Day (David Levithan)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Ransom Riggs)
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight (Jennifer Smith)
Why We Broke Up (Jennifer Handler)
:D
November 11th, 2012 at 10:42
Insurgent (Veronica Roth)
Son (Lois Lowry)
Casual Vacancy (JK Rowling)
The Fault In Our Stars (John Green)
The Yellow Birds (Kevin Powers)
Immobility (Brian Evenson)
Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen (Jonathan Franzen)
Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
November 11th, 2012 at 10:50
1. The Casual Vacancy
2. The Time Keeper
3. The Fault in Our Stars
4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
5. Cahills vs Vespers: The Medusa Plot
6. Cahills vs Vespers: A King’s Ransom
7. Cahills vs Vespers: The Dead of Night
8. Cahills vs Vespers: Shatterproof
9. The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel: The Enchantress
10. The Tales of Beedle the Bard
-Czedric Sanchez
November 11th, 2012 at 12:15
#1 Why We Broke Up – Daniel Handler
#2 Wonder – R.J Palacio
#3 The Fault In Our Stars – John Green
#4 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
#5 See You at Harry’s – Jo Knowles
November 11th, 2012 at 12:31
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling
The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer
The Twelfth Enchantment by David Liss
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr
Every Day by David Levithan
The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, Siobhan Dowd, Jim Kay
November 11th, 2012 at 18:01
The Orphan Master’s Son (Adam Johnson)
This is How You Lose Her (Junot Diaz)
Bring Up The Bodies (Hilary Mantel)
Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (David Mitchell) — doesn’t fall within the 18-month prescribed period because it was released in March of 2011, but still a big big favorite for both years.
November 11th, 2012 at 19:41
Consequences (Aleatha Romig)
Truth (Aleatha Romig)
The Dark Duet (CJ Roberts)
November 11th, 2012 at 19:57
Hemlock by Kathleen Peacok
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Mark of Athena Rick Riordan
Poison Princess by Kresley Cole
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton
The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa
Shift by Jerri Smith Ready
Obsidian by Jennifer Armentrout
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter
November 12th, 2012 at 17:17
Here’s my list:
1. Divergent by Veronica Roth
2. The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore
3. Blood Red Road by Moira Young
4. City of Lost Souls by Cassie Clare
5. The Enchantress by Michael Scott
6. Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson
7. Lumayo Ka Nga sa Akin by Bob Ong
8. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
9. The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore
10. Across The Universe by Beth Revis
11. A Million Suns by Beth Revis
12. Starters by Lissa Price
13. Hereafter by Terri Bruce
14. Partials by Dan Wells
15. The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
16. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
:) And I have a longer list of books to read.
November 12th, 2012 at 17:31
I’ve read mostly earlier books for 2011/2012 reads I love:
The Stranger’s Child
The Sense of An Ending
The Art of Fielding
But I wanna be buried this holidays with:
This Is How You Lose Her
Zone One
The Marriage Plot
NW
Telegraphy Avenue
November 13th, 2012 at 22:03
Adding Tarryn Fisher’s The Opportunist to my list. Just finished :-)
November 15th, 2012 at 03:16
I’m going to be intentionally shallow here…
The Oatmeal’s “How to Tell If Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You” (our kitty wholeheartedly approves)
** Otherwise, it’s GRRM’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series.
November 21st, 2012 at 12:29
1.) The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
2.) JD Salinger by Kenneth Slawenski
3.) Tony and Susan by Austin Wright (first published in 1993 but widely reissued in 2011)
4.) 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
5.) Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan