1. Lethal by Sandra Brown
2. Matched by Allyson Braithwaite Condie
3. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
4. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
5. Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me? (and Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
6. Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch
7. Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
8. The Leopard by Jo Nesbo
9. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
10. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
11. Defending Jacob by William Landay
12. Iron Cowboy by Diana Palmer
13. Romancing the Countess by Ashley March
14. Legend by Marie Lu
15. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
16. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
17. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
18. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
19. Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
20. Deadly Little Secret by Laurie Faria Stolarz
21. Across the Universe by Beth Revis
22. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
23. Lover Reborn by J.R. Ward
24. Wonder by R.J. Palacio
25. Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
26. Every Day by David Levithan
27. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
28. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
29. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
30. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
31. Hate List by Jennifer Brown
32. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
33. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
34. The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
35. Think of a Number by John Verdon
36. Fragile by Lisa Unger
37. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
38. The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald
39. The Fault in our Stars by John Green
I would like to highlight my favorite 3 books of 2012. You already know that I like them, so below are the book descriptions from goodreads.com. (To save you some time from looking it up yourself, you were gonna do that right?)
#3 Defending Jacob - Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.
Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is innocent, and Andy believes him. Andy must. He’s his father. But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies, as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own—between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he’s tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.
#2 The Fault in Our Stars - Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 13, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs... for now.
Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too; post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. And even though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel lives tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumours tenuously kept at bay with a constant chemical assault.
Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at cancer kid support group, Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and shockingly to her, interested in Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone leaves behind.
#1 Gone Girl - On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?
As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?
And that wraps up my reading list of 2012. And the one solid piece of advice I can give…read Gone Girl. Don’t read up about it. Don’t ask about it. The less you know the better. Just pick it up and read. Do it!
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Here's to Happy Reading in 2013!
