Welcome to my Best Reads of 2012 extravaganza! I am glad to have you. I hope you are not suffering from End of the Year Book List Fatigue. Personally, I don’t think that such fatigue is possible – if you claim to possess it, you are probably also a practicing hypochondriac, so I do not believe you.
These books are my favorites that I’ve read in 2012, but not limited to books published in 2012, because that list would be very short and wouldn’t be very much fun for me to curate.
I have a full-time job now, and I am still reading like a freak for Cybils, so you will have to wait until tomorrow for the fun to start.
You will also have to deal with my questionable graphic design skills. Ah, last year I had just moved my blog to this new space and I was all hearts and rainbows and Photoshop – I was going to have the prettiest blog in town! Look how the mighty have fallen – not only is my blog mostly the same, I have been doomed to using Powerpoint to craft all of my amateurish images.
Also worth noting, read that last linked post carefully for some heavy career foreshadowing! Creeepy…. also I should probably edit that up quickly.
ANYWAY, on with the show? I’m excited. I read some good books this year. Here is a schedule of upcoming events. Pencil them into your calendar.
Saturday, December 8th – Best Middle Grade Fiction Reads
Sunday, December 9th – Best Young Adult Fiction Reads
Monday, December 10th – Best Adult Reads
Tuesday, December 11th – Best Re-reads
Wednesday, December 12th – Best Kid’s Nonfiction Reads (special Cybils edition!!)
Thursday, December 13th through Friday, December 21st – Top 10 Best Reads!
10. Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
9. Titanic: Voices From the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson
8. Rookie Yearbook One edited by Tavi Gevinson
7. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
6. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
5. Dinner: A Love Story by Jenny Rosenstrach
4. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
3. Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
2. Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet
1. Habibi by Craig Thompson
All books, all the time, until Christmas. At which point we will all receive a stack of holiday gift books, and read ourselves into a stupor until the New Year.
Exactly how life should be.