The Girls Who Went Away ( re pregnant teens in the 50 's and 60's)

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch (Allison Arngrim)

Let's Pretend This Never Happened (The Bloggess)

The Wilder Life (about a woman and Little House)

The Hunger Games Trilogy

The 2 Montmarnay books

Murder in a Mill Town

Clare DeWitt and the City of the Dead

Bitter in the Mouth

Shiver/linger

There are a bunch of books I want to read on Sophia's and megan's lists.

My best (favorite, I guess) for 2012:

The Chaperone, Laura Moriarty

A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick

Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein

The Fault In Our Stars, John Green

Imaginary Girls, Nova Ren Suma

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (David Mitchell)

Use of Weapons (Ian Banks)

Gods Without Men (Hari Kunzru)

The Farseer trilogy (Robin Hobbs)

Huh. Going by Goodreads, I did a lot more re-reading this year than I thought.

Hmm. I can't easily place exactly what I've read this year and what I haven't (I'm bad at tracking myself with sites like goodreads, though I remember to use it sporadically). Here are some that were either 2012 or just before.

An Abundance of Katherines and Will Grayson, Will Grayson (John Green)

The last couple of books in the Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott

Blackout and Discount Armageddon (Mira Grant / Seanan McGuire)

Blackout and All Clear (Connie Willis) - huh, two books called Blackout!

The Weird Sisters (Eleonor Brown)

I didn't do nearly as much reading in 2012 as I normally do - a new infant really messes with your routines - so that's probably about half of what I read this year.

The Farseer trilogy (Robin Hobbs)

That's good, huh? I've got the first book on my Kindle (and have for a while - it was free once) but I only got a few pages in my first time attempting it. Maybe I'll give it another shot.

Let's Pretend This Never Happened (The Bloggess)

This is on my "soon" list. My wife got it on Kindle, so I have free access and it sounds pretty hysterical.

This is on my "soon" list. My wife got it on Kindle, so I have free access and it sounds pretty hysterical.

I tried to read this at my mom's over Thanksgiving weekend, but I was laughing so hard my mother kept thinking I was crying and it was keeping TCG from concentrating on his own book. I need to pick it up again when I'm alone.

Like Gris, I didn't do nearly as much reading this year as previous years, but a couple books I really enjoyed were Tina Fey's book and Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan. I also liked Gone Girl, but had some serious reservations with it as well -- though probably more with how it was marketed/hyped and less about the book itself. Oh, and John Green's The Fault in Our Stars was really good, too.

The Farseer books are a slow burn, but by the end of the first book I was hooked, and by the end of the trilogy I really loved them.

What have I read this year that I loved?

All the Montmaray books (reread) Code Name Verity The Curse of Chalion, and most of the Vorkosigan novels (rereads) The entire Chronicles of Lymond (reread) Germinal by Emile Zola The Riddlemaster trilogy by Patricia McKillip (reread)

I read a lot of books this year that I enjoyed well enough (all the Paksenarrion books by Elizabeth Moon, for instance), but most of what I loved was rereads of old favorites.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is a Kindle Deal today for $1.99.

Thanks, Dana!! Picked that up for Christmas reading. I was looking for something that could last a couple plane rides and a week at home.

So, let's see, best books I read in 2012? Let's pull up Goodreads 2012 and pick out some five-star books...

An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, by Mary Roach
The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, by Matt Ruff
A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords, by George R.R. Martin
The True Meaning of Smekday, by Adam Rex
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
Room, by Emma Donoghue
Carter Beats the Devil, by Glen David Gold
Blackout, by Mira Grant

(Also, I'm pretty sure Seanan's Velveteen vs. the Junior Super Patriots is going to be on that list when I'm done.)