Comments on: Your Favorite Books of 2012

By: Vic

Vic — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:26:55 +0000

In no particular order:

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewit
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Open by Andre Agassi
11/22/63 by Stephen King
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III
The Green Mile by Stephen King

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:15:41 +0000

My Top 5 Reads of 2012 –

1. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
2. Losing Moses on the Freeway by Chris Hedges
3. Open by Andre Agassi
4. Satan is Real by Charlie Louvin
5. 500 Days by Kurt Eichenwald

By: Rusty

Rusty — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:59:40 +0000

The Fault in the Stars by John Green has a little bit of everything in it.
Glow by Jessica Tuccelli is an interesting read.

By: Borderline Decaturite

Borderline Decaturite — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 22:05:56 +0000

Gone Girl was the best book I read that was published in 2012, followed by The Stranger in the Room. The Night Circus is next to read on my list.

I’m usually a couple of years behind in reading, so I would have to say that the best book I read in 2012 was The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, published at the end of 2011.

By: Curious

Curious — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:21:26 +0000

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:59:30 +0000

The Art of Fielding

By: Labdad

Labdad — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 04:31:34 +0000

Robert A. Caro’s “The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson” – the fourth volume of Caro’s five-volume biography of LBJ.

20 years ago, when I first began reading Caro’s multi-volume biography of Johnson, if you had said I would be awaiting each installment the way I awaited new James Bond novels back in junior high, I would have called you crazy. But this is a spellbinding work that reads like novels.

I can’t wait for the fifth and final volume. When you know how it turns out and still are riveted to every paragraph, you know your reading a damned fine writer!

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:46:13 +0000

Also, “How to Be Black” by Barunde Thurston. (sp.?) I only read books published in the current year if they showed up at the Decatur Book Festival. I’m giving “How to Be Black” and “Things White People Like” as a set to my libertarian/anarchist younger brother. He’s hard to buy for. I’m also giving him candles in the shape of sushi.