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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Books of the year: 2012
Here are my picks for the best books of 2012, fiction and nonfiction. These aren't the best books published this year, but rather the best I've read in the last twelvemonth. The winner in both categories is barely distinguished from the pack, and the runners up are all worthy of reading. Runners up appear in alphabetical order by their author's surname.Fiction:
Winner:Runners up:
- Red Thunder by John Varley
- The Litigators by John Grisham
- Soft Target by Stephen Hunter
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- Turing & Burroughs by Rudy Rucker
Nonfiction:
Winner:I am posting these early because I will be travelling and without Internet access at the end of the year. Also, since I'm currently reading volume 3 of The Last Lion, the monumental biography of Churchill, which I won't finish before the new year, my reading list for 2012 is already complete.Runners up:
- Freedom Betrayed by Herbert Hoover
- Tubes by Andrew Blum
- Rockets and People by Boris Chertok. I have so far read and reviewed volumes 1, 2, and 3 of four.
- A Thread Across the Ocean by John Steele Gordon
- The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Posted at December 26, 2012 22:23