BEST READS OF 2012 – Fiction
- The Garden of Evening Mists – Tan Twan Eng
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
- The Glass Castle – Janette Walls
- The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint – Brady Udall
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother – Amy Chua
- Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
- Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
- The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatjie
- My Brother’s Book – Jo-Anne Richards
- Pops and the Nearly dead – Edyth Bulbring
Non-Fiction
- Reading Like a Writer – Francine Prose
- The Kindness of Strangers – Kate Adie
- How to be a Woman – Caitlin Moran
- Medium Raw – Anthony Bourdain
SURPRISINGLY ENJOYAB LE
- Restoration – Rose Tremain
- 29 Gifts – Cami Walker
- A Wild Herb Soup – Life of a French Countrywoman, by Emilie Carles
MOST DISAPPOINTING READS OF 2012
- When Hoopoe Went to Heaven – Gail Goodwin
- Lightning Rods – Helen de Witt
JUST AWFUL
Amrita – Banana Yamamoto
The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobsen
WHAT POSSESSED ME TO BUY THIS? ? From Elvish to Klingon – Michael Adams