My favorite books of 2012 - it was a great book year and I felt bad leaving some off the list. But I decided that it would make more sense to put this in categories rather than just a numerical list.
I hope this gives you some reading inspiration.
History
1.
Rising Tide – John Barry
2.
1493
Charles Mann
3.
Explorers of the Nile – Tim Jeal
4.
The Annotated Emerson
5.
Lost in Shangri La – Zuckorf
6.
Fatal Journey – Peter Mancall
7.
The Devil’s Backbone – Daniels
8.
Destiny of the Republic – Millard
9.
Old Times on the Upper Mississippi River –
Merrick
10.
L. A. Noir
- John Buntin
Biography
1.
Rin Tin Tin – Susan Orlean
2.
Rather Outspoken – Dan Rather
3.
The American Emperor [Burr]
4.
Patrick Henry – Thomas Kidd
5.
Stan Musial – George Vecsey
6.
James Madison - Brookhiser
7.
Nathan Hale – William Phelps
8.
Superman – Larry Tye
9.
Coolidges: An American Enigma - Sobel
10.
Lighting Out for the Country [Twain] - Morris
Western
1.
Gunmen’s Rhapsody – Robert Parker
2.
Resolution – Robert Parker
3.
Doc – Mary Russell
4.
The Sisters Brothers – Patrick DeWitt
5.
Hard Country Michael McGarrity
6.
Black Jack – Max Brand
7.
Blue Eyed Devil – Robert Parker
8.
Ride the River – Louis L’Amour
9.
Bad Dirt – Proulx
10.
Tappan’s Burro – L’Amour
Fiction
1.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
2.
Settler’s Creek – Carl Nixon
3.
The Art of Fielding - Harack
4.
Where White Horses Gallop - McNeal
5.
Elizabeth Street Laurie Fabbiano
6.
The Heart of Horses – Molly Gloss
7.
House of the Hanged – Mark Mills
8.
Holes – Louis Sachar
9.
Mrs. Tom Thumb – Melanie Benjamin
10.
The Lock Artist - Hamilton
Nature and science
1.
The Great Disruption – Paul Gilding
2.
How the Hippies Saved Physics – David Kaiser
3.
Moral Lives of Animals – Dale Peterson
4.
The Big Thirst – Charles Fishman
5.
The Social Conquest of Earth - Wilson
6.
Elixir – Brian Fagan
7.
The Legacy of the Mastodon – Alton Brown
8.
Westward I Go Free [Thoreau] - Smith
9.
American Canopy - Rutkow
10.
Marshes – William Burt
Mystery
1.
The Dog Who knew Too Much – Spencer Quinn
2.
Lake of the Woods – Tim O’Brien
3.
Boundary Waters – Kent Krueger
4.
The Complaints - Ian Rankin
5.
Death Along the Spirit Road - C. M. Wendelboe
6.
Force of Nature - C. J. Box
7.
Faithful Place – Tana French
8.
The Expats – Chris Pavone
9.
Mad River, John Sandford
10.
The Hot Kid – Elmore Leonard
Travel
1.
Bayou Farewell - Mike Tidwell
2.
Undress me in the Temple of Heaven – Jane Gilman
3.
One Wheel Many Spokes – Lars Clausen
4.
Walking the Amazon - Ed Stafford
5.
American Pie – Pascale Le Draolec
6.
Adventures on the Wine Route – Kermit Lynch
7.
Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson
8.
The Ledge – Davidson
9.
Water to Wine – Doc Hendley
10.
In Patagonia – Bruce Chatwin
Poetry
1.
Reindeer Camps – Barton Sutton
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