Best Books of 2012

Do you have a list of favorites? I do and many of them are not from 2012, but I read them (or reread them) this year. Do you have a list of worsts? (I don't. I have a short lists of books I didn't finish, which may mean I didn't read them in the right mood.) Here's mine:

Best Books I Read in 2012

Fiction - adult

1. Farthing by Jo Walton

*2. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

3. The Healer’s War by Elizabeth Scarborough

4. Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie

5. Earth (The Book) by Jon Stewart

*6. Among Others by Jo Walton

7. Somewhere Beneath These Waves by Sarah Monette

8. The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays by Wendy Wasserstein

9. Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler

10. Elfhome by Wen Spencer

11. Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler

12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Dale Wasserman

13. Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold

14. A Fistful of Sky by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Fiction ~ya

*15. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

16. Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

17. Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu

18. Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

19. Where Things Come Back by J C Whaley

20. Partials by Dan Wells

21. Anything But Typical by Nora R Baskin

*22. Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor

*23. Foiled! By Jane Yolen

24. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

25. Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt

26. The Diviners by Libba Bray

Non- fiction

27. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

28. Wendy and the Lost Boys by Julie Salamon

*29. My Wonderful World of Slapstick by Buster Keaton

30. Buster Keaton Remembered by Eleanor Keaton

31. Prophet’s Prey: My Seven- Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints by Sam Brower

* The Best of the Best

Julia