Top Reads of 2012

[Anbu]

Here is the list of top reads of 2012 listed by Bill Gates..

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/?WT.mc_i...

This got me thinking why cant we list our top reads in 2012..

List the top 10 books that you've read in 2012..

[Anbu]

let me list my Top 10 reads,

1. பிரபாகரன் - தமிழர் எழுச்சியின் வடிவம்
2. Ptolemy's Gate
3. The Bourne Identity
4. The Hobbit
5. The Fellowship of the Ring
6. தொடரும் தவிப்பு
7. The Bookseller of Kabul
8. World Without End
9. The Road to Wigan Pier
10. கீதையின் மறுபக்கம்

[dely]

The best books I have read in 2012 are:

1) Life and Fate by Vasilij Grossmann
2) Solo by Rana Dasgupta
3) Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi
4) Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
5) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6) a collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov

The first three books impressed me because I didn't know anything about the authors so they were a good surprise (but also good books).
I haven't 10 books! All the others I have read were average reads but nothing that stunned me. If I will remind other good books I will add them!

[Ahtims]

I will do so on Jan first :D
Am planning to read atleast 3-4 books more this year

[Aravind]

Few of the most memorable books that I have read in 2012
Yuganta: The End of an Epoch
All Quiet on the Western Front
Summertime
Oru Theruvinte Katha
Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scentific Revolution

[Anbu]

dely wrote: "The best books I have read in 2012 are:

1) Life and Fate by Vasilij Grossmann
2) Solo by Rana Dasgupta
3) Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi
4) Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
5) The Brothe..."

I will read some russian authors in 2013.. :-)

[Anbu]

Smitha wrote: "I will do so on Jan first :D
Am planning to read atleast 3-4 books more this year"

Well looking forward to your list,.. Selecting just 10 from 100+ books is not so easier.. :)

[Anbu]

Aravind wrote: "Few of the most memorable books that I have read in 2012
Yuganta: The End of an Epoch
All Quiet on the Western Front
Summertime
Oru Theruvinte Katha
Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
The..."

As expected, some sociology, non-fiction and historical fictions in your list.. :)

[Ananthu]

1.Midnight's Children
2.On Writing
3.Of Human Bondage
4.To Kill a Mockingbird
5.The God Delusion
6.Fathers and Sons
7.Joseph Anton
8.The Man Who Knew Infinity
9.The Devil's Star
10.The Satanic Verses

[Arun]

1. Habibi, by Craig Thompson
2. 17 tomatoes, by Jaspreet Singh
3. The Groaning Shelf, by Pradeep Sebastian

[Ahtims]

5 stars
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
Justice
Gone Girl
Diary of a Pilgrimage
Best Detective Stories of Agatha Christie
Body Surfing
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryMurder at the Vicarage
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
The Other Family
don't loose your mind loose your weight
The Old Man and His God: Discovering the Spirit of India
The Better Man
Daughters-in-Law
The Growing Pains of Adrian MoleHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's StoneDouble Fudge

[Ahtims]

sorry, Anbu, 5 more than what you bargained for. But in retrospective, when I went through my list of books read in 2012, I feel some of the 4 star ones were actually much better than the five star ones I have put down here. Maybe our individual mood variations have much to do while rating books.

[Sruti]

my top 10 read books of 2012 in no specific order are-
1)the color purple by alice walker
2)the help by kathryn stockett
3)gone girl by gillian flynn
4)defending jacob by william landay
5)hobbit by j.r.r.tolkein
6)and then there were none by agatha christie
7)home front by kristin hannah
8)wife 22 by melanie gideon
9)the chronicles of narnia series
10)the girl with the dragon tattoo series

[Rosun]

1. Godan by Premchand.
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen.
3. The Iliad, Homer
4. Interpreter of maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
5. Steve Jobs, Walter Issacson.
6. My Days, RK Narayan.
7. The Hobbit, Tolkein
8. Diary of a young girl, Anne Frank.
9. How to win friends and influence people, Dell Carnegie.
10. Animal Farm, George Orwell

[Sherin]

Smitha wrote: "sorry, Anbu, 5 more than what you bargained for. But in retrospective, when I went through my list of books read in 2012, I feel some of the 4 star ones were actually much better than the five star..."

True!

[Sherin]

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

2. The Stranger

3. Higuita ഹിഗ്വിറ്റ

4. The Help

5. The Joy Luck Club

6. Notes from Underground

7. The Sense of an Ending

8. Daddy-Long-Legs

9. Into the Wild

10. Tears of the Giraffe

I had some more popualr books like The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,The Thirteenth Tale ,Water for Elephants etc. for the 10th position. Even though Tears of the Giraffe is quite non-flashy compared to them,I loved it's heart-warming simplicity.

[Muddle head]

hardly read 10 books last year, but the ones that I enjoyed are

Yuganta: The End of an Epoch
Forward the Foundation
Foundation
The Inscrutable Americans

[Ahtims]

I have read 4,5,8 from Sherin's list and first and last of Adi's - all were very impressionable

[Rags]

though i didn't read many books this year these are my top picks in no particular order.

1.The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
2. Sputnik Sweetheart.
3.Such a Long Journey
4.The Help
5.In a Free State
6. Mr. Sammler's Planet (quite brilliant off roadish book)
7.Love in the Time of Cholera (brlliant)

[Ahtims]

have read 1,3,4 and loved those

[Anbu]

I ve not read most of the books listed.. :( Good place to look for my next book.. :)

[Girish, The Good cop]

My top 5 Reads of 2012:
1) The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
2) Absolut - The Biography of a bottle
3) The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
4) Chowringhee - Sankar
5) English August - Upamanyu Chatterjee

[Ahtims]

read last two, 1 and 3 are in my list

[Rags]

Smitha wrote: "5 stars
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
Justice
Gone Girl
Diary of a Pilgrimage
Best Detective Stories of Agatha Christie
Body Surfing
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in..."

haven't read any book on your list :( looking forward to gone girl. universally good reviews