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Favorite Books Published in 2012

Description: Your favorite books published in 2012.

Rank Title Author Added

1

Bring Up the Bodies

by Hilary Mantel

6,975 members

347 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: gennyt, rebeccanyc, souloftherose

2

Code Name Verity

by Elizabeth Wein

4,857 members

389 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hailelib, inge87, avatiakh

3

by Gillian Flynn

22,277 members

1,546 reviews

3.9

2 Members: schmootc, Settings

4

by Marissa Meyer

11,835 members

834 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hailelib, avatiakh

5

by Terry Pratchett

4,038 members

196 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: souloftherose, Settings

6

Days of Blood and Starlight

by Laini Taylor

3,294 members

225 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, souloftherose

7

The Beautiful Mystery

by Louise Penny

2,825 members

198 reviews

4

2 Members: cbl_tn, Emmay

8

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

by Anne Applebaum

1,370 members

26 reviews

4.1

2 Members: rebeccanyc, inge87

9

The Brides of Rollrock Island

by Margo Lanagan

645 members

63 reviews

3.9

2 Members: avatiakh, clfisha

10

What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

461 members

24 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cbl_tn, souloftherose

11

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

8,347 members

725 reviews

3.8

Member: MDGentleReader

12

4,587 members

339 reviews

4

Member: _Zoe_

13

Flight Behavior

by Barbara Kingsolver

3,993 members

234 reviews

3.9

Member: gennyt

14

The Orphan Master's Son

by Adam Johnson

3,975 members

288 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

15

The Round House

by Louise Erdrich

3,956 members

222 reviews

4

Member: rebeccanyc

16

by Rachel Hartman

3,835 members

261 reviews

4.1

Member: inge87

17

The End of Your Life Book Club

by Will Schwalbe

2,267 members

187 reviews

3.9

Member: MDGentleReader

18

by Toni Morrison

1,563 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: Settings

19

Standing in Another Man's Grave

1,501 members

69 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

20

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

by Alexander McCall Smith

1,357 members

58 reviews

3.9

Member: MDGentleReader

21

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

by David Quammen

1,293 members

41 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: streamsong

22

Great North Road

by Peter F. Hamilton

1,148 members

50 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

23

by Sherrilyn Kenyon

1,031 members

30 reviews

3.8

Member: Settings

24

Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death

by James Runcie

847 members

48 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: inge87

25

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories

by Nathan Englander

786 members

37 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

26

712 members

34 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

27

The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery

by Catherine Bailey

651 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: inge87

28

The Devil in Silver

by Victor LaValle

633 members

60 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: rebeccanyc

29

by Kate Forsyth

623 members

44 reviews

4

Member: inge87

30

Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child

603 members

26 reviews

4

Member: MDGentleReader

31

by Sally Gardner

579 members

39 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

32

The Invisible Ones

555 members

60 reviews

3.8

Member: cbl_tn

33

Jane, the Fox, and Me

490 members

44 reviews

4.1

Member: inge87

34

by Anouk Markovits

469 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

35

The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: a memoir of friendship, community, and the uncommon pleasure of a good book

400 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MDGentleReader

36

by William Alexander

355 members

14 reviews

3.2

Member: avatiakh

37

No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller

by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

245 members

15 reviews

4.1

Member: MDGentleReader

38

223 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MDGentleReader

39

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

by Christopher Bram

220 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: aulsmith

40

The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea

by Callum Roberts

175 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: inge87

41

A Woman of Consequence

161 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: MDGentleReader

42

133 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: inge87

43

by Hilary McKay

125 members

10 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: MDGentleReader

44

Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps

66 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: MDGentleReader

45

The Fair Miss Fortune

by D. E. Stevenson

62 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: MDGentleReader

46

Erzähl es niemandem!: Die Liebesgeschichte meiner Eltern

by Lillian Crott Berthung

36 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: inge87

47

The Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle: Marriage, Murder, and Madness in the Family of Jonathan Edwards (North American Religions)

by Ava Chamberlain

35 members

3 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: cbl_tn

48

The cleansing of Mahommed

by Chris McCourt

9 members

4

Member: avatiakh

49

A Night in the House

1 member

Member: Settings

50

Shadow and Bone

by Leigh Bardugo

10,820 members

443 reviews

3.9

51

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

4,940 members

433 reviews

3.8

52

3,519 members

221 reviews

3.9

53

The Woman Who Died a Lot

by Jasper Fforde

1,750 members

92 reviews

4

54

A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel

1,507 members

87 reviews

½ 3.7

55

by Stefan Bachmann

590 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

56

The Unseen Guest

by Maryrose Wood

481 members

27 reviews

4

57

The Last Policeman

by Ben H. Winters

2,126 members

185 reviews

3.8

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April 2013
Type: Unnumbered

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