return to home  
Join   |  Gift   |  Member Login   |  Library Login
BookBrowse Mobile
Follow Us: 
   2012 BookBrowse Favorites

Search results: The best new books - The best fiction and nonfiction books of 2012 as voted by BookBrowse's members and subscribers

Page 1 of 4 Total books found: 25
Select your view:
Order books by:
Bring Up the Bodies Bring Up the Bodies: Wolf Hall Trilogy #2
by Hilary Mantel
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 7 May 2013
Publication information
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Write the First Review!
Author biography  (Mantel)
Author interview  (Mantel)
Critics' Opinion: 
Readers' Rating: 
The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn.
Code Name Verity Code Name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 7 May 2013
Publication information
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Write the First Review!
Author biography  (Wein)
Critics' Opinion: 
Readers' Rating: 
BookBrowse Review Members Only
Oct. 11th, 1943 - A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.
The Yellow Birds The Yellow Birds: A Novel
by Kevin Powers
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 30 Apr 2013
Publication information
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Reader Reviews
Author biography  (Powers)
Author interview  (Powers)
Critics' Opinion: 
Readers' Rating: 
BookBrowse Review Members Only
With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.
The Long Walk The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
by Brian Castner
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 9 Apr 2013
Publication information
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Write the First Review!
Author biography  (Castner)
Critics' Opinion: 
Readers' Rating: 
BookBrowse Review Members Only
In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming that grabs readers by the throat even as it touches their hearts.
The Light Between Oceans The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
by Margot L. Stedman
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 2 Apr 2013
Publication information
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Reader Reviews
Author biography  (Stedman)
Author interview  (Stedman)
Critics' Opinion: 
Readers' Rating: 
BookBrowse Review Members Only
A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel that opens in 1918 Australia - the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel
by Rachel Joyce
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 26 Mar 2013
Publication information
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Reader Reviews
Author biography  (Joyce)
Author interview  (Joyce)
Critics' Opinion: 
Readers' Rating: 
BookBrowse Review Members Only
A novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all bury deep within our hearts, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry introduces Rachel Joyce as a wise - and utterly irresistible - storyteller.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 12 Mar 2013
Publication information
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Write the First Review!
Author biography  (Winterson)
Critics' Opinion: 
Readers' Rating: 
BookBrowse Review Members Only
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
Defending Jacob Defending Jacob: A Novel
by William Landay
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: 26 Feb 2013
Publication information
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Reader Reviews
Author biography  (Landay)
Author interview  (Landay)
Critics' Opinion: 
Readers' Rating: 
BookBrowse Review Members Only
Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis - a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control.
Select your view:
Order books by:
 
 
  1 2 3 4     »
 

Become a Member
Click Here
Editor's Choice
  •  May 20 
  •  May 18 
  •  May 16 
Fever
Mary Beth Keane

Fever Jacket

A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
The Woman Upstairs
Claire Messud

The Woman Upstairs Jacket

The riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own.
How to Create the Perfect Wife
Wendy Moore

How to Create the Perfect Wife Jacket

Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment.
Click Here
   Most Recent Blog Entries
Movies Based on Books: Summer 2013 (May - August)
Jewish Young Adult Books That Are Not About The Holocaust
Books to Give This Mother's Day
rss  RSS   rss  subscribe
Recent Reader Reviews
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Fowler
Z, the novel about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is at points charming and; like another reviewer, I kept thinking of the movie, "Midnight... read more
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Although heavy on the scientific details, which slowed down the story for me (OK, I admit, I was one of those liberal arts majors who skipped out on... read more
The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna van Praag
Loved this book. Magical, quirky, enchanting I could go on. All books do not have to be literary fiction, sometimes it is just so comforting to read... read more
RSS RSS feed More...  
Most Viewed This Week
1. Half the Sky
Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
2. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna Quindlen
3. Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo
4. Eagle Strike
Anthony Horowitz
5. K Blows Top
Peter Carlson
More...
Book Club Recommendations
The Gods of Gotham
by Lyndsay Faye
Paperback (Mar/13)
Forgotten Country
by Catherine Chung
Paperback (Mar/13)
Philida
by André Brink
Paperback (Feb/13)
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
Hardback (Jun/12)
More...
First Impressions
Members read and review books often months before they're published. See what they think in First Impressions!
The Laws of Gravity
by Liz Rosenberg
4.5 Stars            (May/13)
A Dual Inheritance
by Joanna Hershon
Four Stars            (May/13)
The Sisterhood
by Helen Bryan
Four Stars            (Apr/13)
More...
  Latest BookBrowse News
U.S. ebook sales up in 2012, but rate of growth is slowing (May 16 2013)
In 2012, trade book sales (i.e. non academic book sales) rose 6.9%, to $15.049 billion, and e-book sales continued to grow, although the rate of growth... Full Story
rss RSS feed More...
 
BookBrowse Poll
Q: Which of these Summer movies based on books would you like to see? (Info on each movie here)
The Great Gatsby
Epic
Man of Steel
World War Z
The Lone Ranger
The Wolverine
R.I.P.D.
Percy Jackson
Paranoia
The Mortal Instruments
Select Any That Apply
Search: Title or Author
Free Newsletters
Bring Up the Bodies

Online Book Club
More about
Five Days
Join the discussion!


Win This Book!
The Pigeon Pie Mystery


Enter To Win Now!

wordplay
Solve this clue:
"I I M B T Give T T R"

and be entered
to win....
frame top
New Author
Interviews
Menna van Praag
Erica Brown
Helga Weiss
Kate Morton
frame bottom
HOME Book Submissions | Advertising | Library Subscriptions | Reviewing for BookBrowse | Contact Us