Books of 2012

February

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs

Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld

The Future of the Past, Alexander Stille

Copenhagen, Michael Frayn

No Bone Unturned, Jeff Benedict

The Glass Demon, Helen Grant

Midnight Riot, Ben Aaronovitch

Days of Grace, Catherine Hall

Why We Broke Up,Maira Kalman and Daniel Handler

Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancience World, Roger Atwood

The Morning Gift, Eva Ibbotson

The Judas Kiss, David Hare

Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer

January

The Egyptologist, Arthur Phillips

The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd

From Doon to Death, Ruth Rendell

Gypsy, Gypsy, Rumer Godden

A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood

The Unwritten, Mike Carey

Hopscotch, Julio Cortazar

A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore

An Episode of Sparrows, Rumer Godden

Mr. Fox, Helen Oyeyemi

Letters from a Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends, ed. Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge