Our librarians have picked their favorites, and they're all here --from history to mystery, roman a clef to romance-- the very best books of 2012.
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Favorite Fiction:
Defending Jacob, by William Landay
Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel
The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
The Casual Vacancy, by J.K. Rowling
Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple
The Age of Miracles, by Karen Thompson Walker
I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
A Game of Thrones series, by George R.R. Martin
The Last Nude, by Ellis Avery
Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
Best of Romance:
How to Romance a Rake, by Manda Collins
Hell on Wheels: Black Knights Inc., by Julie Ann Walker
Run the Risk, by Lori Foster
Last Man Standing, by Cindy Gerard
Non-Fiction
Arguably, by Christopher Hitchens
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, by Daron and James A Robinson Acemoglu
History:
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candace Millard
The Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England, by Thomas Penn
The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It, by Stephen Sears
After Camelot: An Intimate History of the Kennedy Family – 1968 to the Present, by J. Randy Taraborrelli
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves, by Henry Wienceck
Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived, by Andrew Wilson
Memoir, Biography & Autobiography
Wild: From Lost to Found of the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed
Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde, by Franny Moyle
The Richard Burton Diaries, by Richard Burton
In Search of Cleo: How I Found My Pussy and Lost My Mind, by Gina Gerson
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