Monday, December 17, 2012

My Friends' Favorite Books of 2012

A while ago I did a little informal poll on Facebook to find out what my friends enjoyed reading this year. Here are the results!

Robin Abrahams, or "Miss Conduct" of the Boston Globe, liked Breed by Chase Novak. Here's her review as well.

Blogger Sandy Smith Nawrot of You've Gotta Read This! picked 11/22/63 by Stephen King.

Author Barbara Foster Bietz picked Wonder by R.J. Palacio. She says, "Perfection on every level." You can visit Barbara's blog, Jewish Books for Children, here.

Middle-grade writer Jen Petro-Roy loved See You At Harry's by Jo Knowles.

Author Aine Greaney loved The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya. I did, too! Her book is called Dance Lessons and is out now. Her website is here.

Columbia University librarian and graphic novels maven Karen Green picked My Friend Dahmer by Derf.

Blogger Jeanne Griggs of Necromancy Never Pays loved Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway.


What a great list, you guys! Thanks to everyone who shared their favorites with me. What are your favorites this year?

9 comments:

Jeanne said...

Sophisticated Dorkiness also has a post up including Angelmaker as one of her favorites of the year!

Harvee said...

There are so many books that I liked last year. In the Shadow of the Banyan is one, and in mystery novels, Broken Harbor by Tana French.

Sandy Nawrot said...

I loved Wonder. It didn't make my favorites, but it was close. I'm going to have to check out Angelmaker...

Zibilee said...

I have and really want to read Breed. It sounds like it would scare the pants off of me! This is a great compilation. I need to check out a few of these!!

As the Crowe Flies and Reads said...

I love your idea of listing what your friends loved this year. My two favorites were The Dog Stars and Song of Achilles.

Vasilly said...

I love this post! Wonder and See You At Harry's are already on my tbr list. I still haven't figured out my favorite books of the year yet. ;-)

Jenners said...

What a neat idea!

Athira said...

I just borrowed Angelmaker from the library so I'm quite excited to read it!

Kathleen said...

Thanks for sharing the favorites!