Sadly, I haven’t been updating this blog as much as I would like lately, although I’ve been doing plenty of arts and entertainment things I would love to tell you all about … someday.
Last year,
I managed to be on time for a change and got in under the wire with my
end-of-the-year roundup of everything I had been reading. This year,
however, I have been particular neglectful
of this blog and even though I was keeping notes on what I thought were the
best books I read this year, I’m only just now finally culling that list.
Let it be
noted that while I’m calling this the best books of 2012, most – if not all –
of these books were written prior to that time period. It’s just that I finally
got around to reading these books during 2012.
Unlike last
year, I read very few young adult novels this year, so I collapsed children’s
and YA books into one category, listed here underneath the adult books I read.
Graphic novels and nonfiction books are indicated by these symbols
respectively: ^ and **. Any books that I was re-visiting for a second read are
marked with a (2) after the title.
Hopefully
anyone reading this blog and looking to tackle that next read can glean some
new titles from this list. Each title is hyperlinked to my review of it on
LibraryThing for anyone looking for more information on that particular book.
Adult books
1984 (2) by
George Orwell
The Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Batman: The Long
Halloween^ by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
Batman: Year One
by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli
The Beach
Bum’s Guide to the Boardwalks of New Jersey** by Dick Handshuch and Sal
Marino
Cranford
(2) by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Collected
Poems by Sylvia Plath
The Colossus
and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath
Frankfurt
Pocket Guide** by Thomas Cook Publishing
Fried Green
Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café (2) by Fannie Flagg
The Greater
Journey: Americans in Paris** by David McCollough
The Hypnotist
by Lars Kepler
A Little Bit
Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages** by Kristin Chenoweth with Joni
Rodgers
Mr. Monk Goes
to the Firehouse by Lee Goldberg
Neptune Noir:
Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars** edited by Rob Thomas
Psych: A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read by William Rabkin
Psych: A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read by William Rabkin
Psych: Mind
Over Magic by William Rabkin
The Question:
Pipeline^ by Greg Rucka and Cully Hamner
Sleeper:
Season 1^ by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Sleeper:
Season 2^ by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Winter Trees
by Sylvia Plath
What I Did
by Chris Wakling
Children’s/YA books
Being Teddy
Roosevelt by Claudia Mills and R.W. Alley
Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia** by Jeanette Winter
Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia** by Jeanette Winter
A Boy Called
Dickens** by Deborah Hopkinson and John Hendrix
Boys of Steel:
The Creators of Superman** by Marc Tyler Nobleman
Chicka Chicka
Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
Fannie in the
Kitchen: The Whole Story from Soup to Nuts of How Fannie Farmer Invented
Recipes with Precise Measurements by Deborah Hopkinson and Nancy Carpenter
The Great and
Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum** by
Candace Fleming
Knuffle Bunny:
A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
Library Lily
by Gillian Shields and Francesca Chessa
A Little Princess
(2) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lives of
Extraordinary Women: Rules, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought)** by
Kathleen Krull and Kathryn Hewitt
Mice and Beans
by Pam Munoz Ryan and Joe Cepeda
Peek-a-Baby: A
Life-the-Flap Book by Karen Katz
The Penny Pot
by Stuart J. Murphy and Lynne Woodcock Cravath
Tickle Time! by Sandra Boynton
Where Is Baby’s Birthday Cake? by Karen Katz
Tickle Time! by Sandra Boynton
Where Is Baby’s Birthday Cake? by Karen Katz
Where the Wild
Things Are (2) by Maurice Sendak
**
= nonfiction
(2) = re-read
^ = graphic novel
(2) = re-read
^ = graphic novel
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