Favorite Reads of 2012

Well, this is embarrassing. I made this post and thought I scheduled it to go up at the end of December, but it never posted. It’s now April.

So here is my much-delayed list of favorite reads from 2012 (which I’m back-dating to January 1!). As always, I present these in alphabetical order, and must note this is just a sampling of my reading list from the previous year (a mish-mash of books recently published and books I’ve discovered years after they’ve been published):

The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard by Joe Brainard
American Terrorist by Tyler & Wendy Chin-Tanner
Slow Lightning by Eduardo C. Corral
Whirlwind by Sharon Dolin
Une Semaine De Bonté: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage by Max Ernst
Little Murders Everywhere by Rebecca Morgan Frank
Catch & Release by D. Gilson
Open Winter by Rae Gouirand
The Nanopedia Quick-Reference Pocket Lexicon of Contemporary American Culture by Charles Jensen
My Only Wife by Jac Jemc
Unbuilt Projects by Paul Lisicky
Special Powers & Abilities by Ray McDaniel
He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices by Stephen Mills
Western Practice by Stephen Motika
Miracle Fruit, At the Drive-In Volcano, and Lucky Fish by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Martyrology and bpNichol Comics by B. P. Nichol
Skin Job by Evan Peterson
He Will Laugh by Douglas Ray
Prop Rockery by Emily Rosko
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Wanted by Michael Tyrell
Sonics in Warholia by Megan Volpert
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

I’m sure I’ve forgotten a few. And then there are the books I bought in 2012 that I still have not read for whatever reason. O never-dwindling stack of books by the bedside!