My Favorite Books of 2012

Here's a list of my favorite books, out of all the books I read in 2012:

Stiltsville  by  Susanna Daniel
Lizzie's War  by  Tim Farrington
Gone Girl  by  Gillian Flynn
The Newlyweds  by  Nell Freudenberger
The Cellist of Sarajevo  by  Steven Galloway
Still Alice  by  Lisa Genova
Obligate Carnivore  by  Jed Gillen
Arcadia  by  Lauren Groff
The Dog Stars  by  Peter Heller
Open Wound  by  Jason Karlawish
1493  by  Charles C. Mann
Bring Up the Bodies  by  Hilary Mantel
When Tito Loved Clara  by  Jon Michaud
Destiny of the Republic  by  Candice Millard
Americana  by  Hampton Sides
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection  by  Alexander McCall Smith
The Lotus Eaters  by  Tatjana Soli
Wild  by  Cheryl Strayed
The Sex Lives of Cannibals  by  J. Maarten Troost
The Beginner's Goodbye  by  Anne Tyler
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard  by  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree  by  Kate Wheeler