I’ve already done a post about 2012 but I wanted to do another. The typical top five post of the best books you’ve read in 2012 but because I split my books into released in 2012 and all others, I think I need two top five lists here. So here are my top reads for the year;
Top Five Reads Released in 2012
5. Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan
4. Dare Me by Megan Abbott
3. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
2. The Fault in our Stars by John Green
1. Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Honourable mentions need to be made to Colour of Milk, The Yellow Birds, The Cocktail Waitress, Tigers in Red Weather, The Dinner and The Age of Miracles.
Top Five Reads in 2012
5. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
4. Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
3. Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
2. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
With honourable mentions to When Gravity Fails, The Little Prince, Factotum, He Died With His Eyes Open, The Devil All the Time, The Master and Magarita and Ethan Frome.
Now it’s your turn to let me know of your favourite books, the new releases and the older books. It doesn’t matter; just what you discovered and loved.
What I love about Best of Lists, is that despite the vastness of the book blogging community and how it seems a lot of bloggers are always reading the same books, these year end lists are so completly different from the next. I have yet to read two lists this year that have much overlap. I haven’t read any on yours, but a few of them are on my wishlist.
I recommend them; obviously 😛
Hmm, well, I have only heard of one of the books in your 2012 published books list (The Yellow Birds), but I heartily approve of your top two reads for the year. I hope you can find more classic novels to fall in love with next year. 😛
I’m sure I will be reading a lot more of the classics
[…] reflecting on my year of reading but eagerly anticipating the books I get to read next year. All my reflections of 2012 seemed to have taken place in November. So now I want the Literary Exploration reading challenge to […]