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Best Books of 2012 -- Fiction
Introduction
All of these books have been chosen by at least 3 of the following publications. Here is the abbreviation code.
AM         Amazon                           Atl   Atlantic
BG       Boston Globe                       BL   Booklist                                       
BN       Barnes and Noble                 BP   Bookpage                                 
CSM    Christian Science Monitor                                       
Econ         Economist                         GR   Good Reads                                 
Hud      Hudson Booksellers             Huff   Huffington Post                          
KCS      Kansas City Star                   Kir   Kirkus                                   
LJ         Library Journal                        NPR    National Public Radio                      
NYT      New York Times                 Opr   Oprah
Peo      People                                  PJ   Providence Journal 
PW         Publishers Weekly               Sea   Seattle Times  
SFC      San Francisco Chronicle        Sl      Slate 
STLPD   St. Louis Post Dispatch     Time      Time Magazine                  
WP          Washington Post 
Telegraph Avenue : a novel - Michael Chabon
Publisher: Harper
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/11/2012
Share Telegraph Avenue %3a a novel ISBN-13: 9780061493348
 ISBN-10: 0061493341
When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth richest black man in America, decides to open his newest Dogpile megastore on Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy, the owners of Brokeland Records, fear for their business until Gibson's endeavor exposes a decades-old secret history. BL, KCS, Kir, PJ, SF, STLPD
 
This is how you lose her - Junot Díaz
Publisher: Riverhead Books
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/11/2012
Share This is how you lose her ISBN-13: 9781594487361
 ISBN-10: 1594487367
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao presents a lyrical collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal and the echoes of intimacy. AMZ, BG, BN, BP, GR, Huff, KCS, Peo, Sl, STLPD, Time
A hologram for the king : a novel - Dave Eggers
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/19/2012
Share A hologram for the king %3a a novel ISBN-13: 9781936365746
 ISBN-10: 193636574X
A struggling American businessman travels to a rising Saudi Arabian city with the hopes of securing a contract that will earn him a commission large enough to stave off his economic woes and hold his family together. AMZ, BG, Kir, NYT
The round house - Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/02/2012
Share The round house ISBN-13: 9780062065247
 ISBN-10: 0062065246
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family. AMZ, BG, BL, BP, CSM, KCS, Opr, PW, STLPD
Canada - Richard Ford
Publisher: Ecco
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/22/2012
Share Canada ISBN-13: 9780061692048
 ISBN-10: 0061692042
After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, 15-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a dark and violent nature that interferes with Dell's quest to find grace and peace on the prairie of Saskatchewan. AMZ, BN, BP, CSM, Hud, Huff, KCS, Kir, Opr, STLPD
Billy Lynn's long halftime walk - Ben Fountain
Publisher: Ecco
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2012
Share Billy Lynn ISBN-13: 9780060885595
 ISBN-10: 0060885599
Asked to be part of the Dallas Cowboys' Halftime Show, Specialist William Billy Lynn, one of the eight surviving men of the Bravo Squad, finds his life forever changed by this all-American event that causes him to better understand difficult truths about himself and those around him. AMZ, BL, BP, CSM, KCS, Kir, LJ, SF, Time, WP
The fault in our stars - John Green
Publisher: Dutton Books
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/10/2012
Share The fault in our stars ISBN-13: 9780525478812
 ISBN-10: 0525478817
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis, but when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. By the award-winning author of Looking for Alaska. AMZ, BN, Huff, KCS, Opr, PJ, Time
Arcadia - Lauren Groff
Publisher: Voice/Hyperion
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/13/2012
Share Arcadia ISBN-13: 9781401340872
 ISBN-10: 1401340873
In a lush, haunting story of the American dream, Bit, born in a back-to-nature commune in 1970s New York State, must come to grips with the outside world when the commune eventually fails. By the best-selling author of The Monsters of Templeton. BL, CSM, Kir, PJ,  STLPD, WP
The orphan master's son : a novel - Adam Johnson
Publisher: Random House
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/10/2012
Share The orphan master ISBN-13: 9780812992793
 ISBN-10: 0812992792
The son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il. By the author of Parasites Like Us. AMZ, BG, Sl, STLPD
Flight behavior : a novel - Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/06/2012
Share Flight behavior %3a a novel ISBN-13: 9780062124265
 ISBN-10: 0062124269
Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever. BL, Hud, STLPD
Bring up the bodies : a novel - Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/08/2012
Share Bring up the bodies %3a a novel ISBN-13: 9780805090031
 ISBN-10: 0805090037
A sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall depicts the downfall of Anne Boleyn at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. AMZ, Atl, BG, BL, BP, CSM, Econ, NYT, PW, Sea, SF, STLPD, Time, WP
Sweet tooth : a novel - Ian McEwan
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/13/2012
Share Sweet tooth %3a a novel ISBN-13: 9780385536820
 ISBN-10: 0385536828
Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government, a situation that is compromised when she falls in love with him. AMZ, BL, Sea
The yellow birds : a novel - Kevin Powers
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/11/2012
Share The yellow birds %3a a novel ISBN-13: 9780316219365
 ISBN-10: 0316219363
Two friends, both U.S. soldiers in Iraq, cling to life and each other as a bloody fight to take control of the city of Al Tafar rages around them and they stave off fatigue, mental stress and insurgents. AMZ, CSM, Hud, Huff, NYT
Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel - Maria Semple
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/14/2012
Share Where ISBN-13: 9780316204279
 ISBN-10: 0316204277
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her in this new novel from the author of This One is Mine. BP, CSM, Peo, SF, Time
NW: A Novel - by Zadie Smith
Publisher: Penguin Press
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/04/2012
Share NW%3a A Novel ISBN-13: 9781594203978
 ISBN-10: 1594203970
Like John Lanchester's Capital or Sebastian Faulks' A Week in December, NW is a sprawling tale of life in a small corner of London -- in this case, the northwest corner. It follows the lives of four young people growing up in the same 1970s urban planning development as they pursue independent and (in some cases) reasonably successful lives...until they are drawn together once again. Though NW is more adventurously structured and narrated, author Zadie Smith, as in her other novels, creates a strong sense of place as she tackles issues of class, money, fate, and identity in a richly diverse urban environment. LJ, NYT, SF, Time
Beautiful ruins : a novel - Jess Walter
Publisher: Harper
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/12/2012
Share Beautiful ruins %3a a novel ISBN-13: 9780061928123
 ISBN-10: 0061928127
The award-winning author of The Financial Lives of the Poets presents his most romantic and enjoyable novel yet that follows a young Italian innkeeper and his almost-love affair with a beautiful American starlet, which draws him into a glittering world filled with unforgettable characters. BL, GR, Hud, Kir, Opr, Sea, STLPD
Building stories - Chris Ware
Publisher: Pantheon Books
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/02/2012
Share Building stories ISBN-13: 9780375424335
 ISBN-10: 0375424334
The award-winning creator of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth presents an intricately illustrated, sprawling tale about the residents in a three-story Chicago apartment building, including a lonely single woman, a couple who are growing to despise each other and an elderly landlady. BG, Kir, NYT, PW, STLPD, Time
Alif the unseen - G. Willow Wilson
Publisher: Grove Press
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/19/2012
Share Alif the unseen ISBN-13: 9780802120205
 ISBN-10: 0802120202
Forced underground when his ex-lover's new fiancé breaches his computer, putting him and his clients in jeopardy, young Arab-Indian hacker and shielder Alif discovers the secret book of the jinn and uses its insights to enable life-threatening developments in information technology. By the creator of the acclaimed comics Air and Vixen. CSM, Hud, NPR, Sl
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