If you only read one book last year it was probably Gone Girl
With Twilight
by John Green follows a young terminal cancer patient who falls in love.
by Karen Thompson Walker is set in a world where the earth’s rotation has gone wrong and where daily life starts to fall apart.
Want to be a more ambitious reader? There’s plenty out there for you.
by Hilary Mantel, but you may not have gotten around to the sequel, Bring Up the Bodies
. If you want to relive the adventures of Thomas Cromwell and Anne Boleyn, you should definitely start on this series.
, which follows four Londoners and experiments with style and tone.
from Norway’s Jo Nesbo. The rumor is there won’t be many more books in this series so hurry up and snag the most recent entry, Phantom.
by former prosecutor William Landay about a DA whose son is accused of murder.
by Megan Abbott, where murder and mayhem isn’t so far-fetched for members of a cutthroat high school cheerleading squad.
For books that tell a real-life story you have some real winners.
by Cheryl Strayed, they’ve probably already told you about it. It’s the kind of book people can’t stop talking about. It also follows a long line of memoirs about self-discovery set in the wilderness.
by Will Schwalbe. Schwalbe writes about the last years he spent with his dying mother where they bonded over books they’d read together. A great book club pick.
You’ve only got a few months left before the Summer of 2013 book push comes, it’s a great time to catch up on the best of 2012!
Jessica is a blogger, a lawyer and a lifelong reader based in Boston, MA. She is the founder of Red Letter Reads http://www.redletterreads.com a book review site for busy readers. Her personal blog is Don't Mind the Mess http://dontmindthemess.com
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