The Results: Top Non-M/T Reads 2012

[Carol/Bonadie]

TOP NON-M/T READS 2012

1. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (4 votes)

2. Tie: Live by Night by Lehane and 50 Shades of Grey by EL James (3 votes)

3. Tie: Life on the Mississippi, Twain and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, (2 votes)


Honorable Mention: 1 vote each

A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah
Alcatraz Prison, Oliver
ANGELFALL - Susan Ee
BLACK DAWN - Rachel Caine
Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy - L. A. Meyer
Calico Joe by John Grishom
EASY - Tammara Webber
Endangered by Eliot Schrefer (YA)
EVERNEATH - Brodi Ashton
Finding casey - joann mapson
Gold- chris cleve
Harold Schechter, Fiend
Huckleberry Finn, Twain
In the Garden of the Beasts, Larson
I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
Light between oceans, Stedman
Liquid Smoke by Jeff Shelby
Live by Night, Dennis Lehane
Lucy by Laurence Gonzales (science fiction)
Lunatics, Barry
Mill River Recluse by Darcie Chan
PANDEMONIUM - Lauren Oliver
Purge - Sofi Oksanen
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline (audio read by Wil Wheaton)
Roses- leila meacham
Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness
Some Kind of Fairy Tale - Graham, Joyce
The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling
The Dog Stars - Heller, Peter
The Embers of Heaven by Alma Alexander (alternate historical fantasy)
The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood, Margaret
The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe (fantasy)
The Lions of al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
The Lost Wife- alyson richman
The Rock Child by Win Blevins (historical fiction)
The shoemaker's wife- adrianna trigiani-
The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkinson
The Wind Through the Keyhole - King, Stephen
The Wolf Gift - Ann Rice
Throne of the Crescent Moon - Saladin Ahmed
Thunder and Rain by Charles Martin
Twinkie, deconstructed, Ettlinger
Underside of joy, Sere Prince Halverson
Winter of the World
Winter's Bone - Woodrell, Daniel
Witness by Nora Roberts
Yes Chef, Marcus Samuelson
Younger Next Year for Women, Chris Crowley

[Ann]

I am expecting to get back to Live by Night soon. I was excited to see it garnered an Edgar nomination.
http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htm... along with Gone Girl
The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye (Penguin Group USA - Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishers)
Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Sunset by Al Lamanda (Gale Cengage Learning - Five Star)
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane (HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow)
All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley (Penguin Group USA - Riverhead Books)

[Carol/Bonadie]

Delighted to see All I Did Was Shoot My Man nominated also. And, I wonder if Jesse Kellerman is related to Jonathan?

[Ann]

Carol: According to his bio, yes! http://jessekellerman.com/about/
"my parents, Drs. Jonathan and Faye Kellerman, were, respectively, a clinical psychologist and a non-practicing dentist, the latter pursuit being a lot like that of a non-practicing Buddhist, insofar as both dentists and Buddhists believe that life is pain.
Nowadays my parents write books, too. What can I say, everybody wants to get in on it.
I have three younger sisters, all fine writers capable of doing it professionally. Time will tell if they choose to do so."

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Delighted to see All I Did Was Shoot My Man nominated also. And, I wonder if Jesse Kellerman is related to Jonathan?"

[Carol/Bonadie]

Ann wrote: "Carol: According to his bio, yes! http://jessekellerman.com/about/
"my parents, Drs. Jonathan and Faye Kellerman, were, respectively, a clinical psychologist and a non-practicing dentist, the latte..."

Thanks, Ann, clears that up! Like the Kings, writing talent runs in the family I guess.

[Shomeret]

Re writing talent in families-- Anne Rice's sister (now deceased)wrote some wonderful fiction, and Christopher Rice her son is also a writer.

[Brakedrum]

don't forget Stephen King's son.