2012 Book Reviews by Rating

A list of my 2012 book reviews by rating. Click the rating to jump to the corresponding section.

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• 4.5⭐
• 4⭐
• 3.5⭐
• 3⭐
• 2.5⭐
• 2⭐

• The Arabian Nights
• Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá
• Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
• Memory & Dream by Charles de Lint
• So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon, read by Kate Reading

• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• Ava’s Man by Rick Bragg
• Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie, read by Deanna Hurst
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, read by Khristine Hvam
• Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Drama: An Actor’s Education by John Lithgow, read by the author
• Dreams Made Flesh by Anne Bishop
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• Fables: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
• Fire by Kristin Cashore
• Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
• Four to Score by Janet Evanovich
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente, read by the author
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Ice by Sarah Beth Durst
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, read by Cassandra Campbell with Bahni Turpin
• Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, translated by Anthea Bell
• Letters From Home by Kristina McMorris
• Naked Came the Leaf Peeper by Brian Lee Knopp et al.
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall, read by Susan Denaker
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg, read by the author
• Rise of the Evening Star by Brandon Mull
• Room by Emma Donoghue, read by Michal Friedman, et al.
• Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey
• Second Hand Heart by Catherine Ryan Hyde
• The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• The Sweet Potato Queens’ First Big-Ass Novel: Stuff We Didn’t Actually Do, But Could Have, and May Yet by Jill Conner Browne with Karin Gillespie, read by the author
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, read by Jayne Entwistle
• And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
• The Thorn and the Blossom by Theodora Goss
• Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
• Watchers by Dean Koontz
• The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
• The Wayside School Collection by Louis Sachar, read by the author
• The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
• The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain

• The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad, translated by Ingrid Christopherson
• The Girl Who Was On Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Trilogy, edited by Leah Wilson
• The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, translated by Lucia Graves
• When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• Dingo by Charles de Lint
• Duma Key by Stephen King
• Elliot and the Goblin War by Jennifer A. Nielsen
• Fairest by Gail Carson Levine, read by Sarah Naughton et al.
• From a Whisper to a Scream by Charles de Lint
• Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb
• I’ll Be Watching You by Charles de Lint
• The Ice Limit by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
• The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany
• Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder
• The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, read by Jim Dale
• The Society of S by Susan Hubbard
• Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin

• Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d’Art by Christopher Moore

• Fool by Christopher Moore
• Footsteps in the Dark by Georgette Heyer
• Graveminder by Melissa Marr, read by Emma Galvin
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• In Odd We Trust by Dean Koontz and Queenie Chan
• The Once and Future King by T. H. White

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