First up, was the goal I set with myself, of reading 80 books in 2012.
Mission Accomplished. By the first week in September.
I was a bit of an overachiever. |
I won, but not by much. I closed out 2012 with 114 books, representing 39,318 pages and she ended the year with 109 books and 38,752 pages. Her books were longer on average, as I'm 5 books ahead but only 566 pages, but still... more books, more pages, victory is mine!
Someone asked me earlier what I won and I said bragging rights, but now I'm remembering we also had a $20 gift card to the bookstore of the winner's choice (B&N for me, Amazon for her) on the line... Yay! More books for me. :-)
Anyway, I figure if I put in all that time reading last year you all should get something out of it as well. I think I'm going to do four separate posts - overall top 10 list, best nonfiction, best general fiction and best chick lit/fluff.
I'll elaborate a bit on my choices in the genre based posts, but without further ado, my 10 favorite reads of 2012:
- Carly's Voice by Arthur Fleischmann
- The Street Sweeper by Eliot Perlman
- A Grown Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
- Run by Ann Patchett
- Heft by Liz Moore
- Next Stop: A Memoir by Glen Finland
- The Good Father by Noah Hawley
- Where We Belong by Emily Giffin
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Are any of these on your top list for the year? If no, what were the best books you read in 2012?
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