Literary Exploration discussion

Tell us what your favourite books are from your 2012 reading. Please don't do too many (top 5 or 10) is all we need and if possible link the books.

My favourites are;

From 2012
5. Talulla Rising
4. Dare Me
3. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2. The Fault in Our Stars
1. Angelmaker

Other Books
5. We
4. Into the Darkest Corner
3. Swimming Home
2. The Marriage Plot
1. Crime and Punishment

My favorite release of this year is probably Gone Girl. That book messed with my mind

My favorite books of 2012 are:
1. Bring Up the Bodies
2. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
3. The Round House
4. The Secret Keeper
5. Sutton

Her is my list:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Compound by S.A. Bodeen
Patient Zero by Jonathan Mayberry
And Miles To Go by Richard Paul Evans

In no particular order, because I find that sort of thing impossible.

Moby-Dick

The Passage

Arctic Dreams

Stay Awake

Cryptonomicon

The only one on the list published this year was Stay Awake, but these were definitely my favorite reads this year.

Of course I just realized that some of the books I listed were read in 2011. Time goes by too quickly.

Kevin wrote: "Her is my list:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Compound by S.A. Bodeen
Patient Zero by Jonathan Mayberry
And Miles To Go by Richard Paul Evans"

Cuckoo's Nest is one of those books I will certainly re-read in my life. However, it is also one of the books I wish I hadn't already discovered, so that I could discover it anew again.

These are my favourite books that I read this year. And none of them were released in 2012 (although some of the sequels were).

Rivers of London plus both sequels.
Perdido Street Station
All You Need Is Kill
Old Man's War
The Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies
Beat the Reaper
The Sword-Edged Blonde plus the rest of the Eddie LaCrosse books.

I am listening to the audio book "The Complete Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes" right now. I am watching the show Elementary right now and it is interesting how they stay true to Holmes as a character for the most part. I would add this to my 2012 list even though it will take me through 2013 to finish.

*"The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes"

My favorites,
Cloud Atlas
Swan Song
Never Let Me Go
L.A. Confidential
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: A George Smiley Novel
The Satanic Verses

My favorites:
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Night of the Hunter
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Drood
The Grapes of Wrath

MatterhornMatterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
Lonesome Dove
11/22/63
The Thin Red Line

Life Among the Savages
The Boundaries of Her Body: A Shocking History of Women's Rights in America

Here are my favourites this year

The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
Come Back to Me by Sara Foster
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan (released 2012)

My favorites:
The Night Circus
The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset
Alice I Have Been
A Discovery of Witches

Existentialism and Human Emotions
Gone Girl
Kick-Ass (all of the comics)
The Walking Dead, Book One (comics 1-105!)
Batman: Earth One
Leviathan Wakes
Kushiel's Dart
A Game of Thrones (and the next 2 in the series)

I read quite a bit more but these were the ones I seriously enjoyed!

My favorites reads in 2012: Molokai, Alan Brennert; Astrid and Veronika, Linda Olsson; The Day the World Came to Town, Jim deFede; Until Tuesday, Luis Montalvan; Sarah's Key, Tatiana deRosnay; Don't Let Me Go, Catherine Ryan Hyde; The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi-Adler Olsen; The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey; Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs; Love Anthony, Lisa Genova; Blackbird, Jennifer Laucks; The Conference of the Birds, Farid Attar.