The pointers suggest many good reads:
Holiday book buying list, The Read on WNC
New WNC Books
Also see Best Books of 2012, Part 1
Time Magazine
Fiction
1. The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
2. Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
3. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain
4. At Last, Edward St. Aubyn
5. The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, Catherynne Valente
6. The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling
7. Building Stories, Chris Ware
8. NW, Zadie Smith
9. Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, Maria Semple
10. This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
Non-fiction
1. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956, Anne Applebaum
2. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. Four, Robert A. Caro
3. Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon
4. My Friend Dahmer, Derf Backderf
5. Are You My Mother?, Alison Bechdel
6. Wild, Cheryl Strayed
7. Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child, Bob Spitz
8. People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo — and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up, Richard Lloyd Parry
9. The First Four Notes: Beethoven’s Fifth and the Human Imagination, Matthew Guerrieri
10. The Black Count, Tom Reiss
