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Entertainment Realm’s 20 Picks for Best Fiction of 2012 [11-20]
Posted by Amy Steele in Books on December 20, 2012
Making lists of my favorite books, music, films proves challenging every year. Thus I’m making a list of 20. To put it in perspective, I’ve read 90 books at this writing. I have a few in progress. Here are the one’s that I keep thinking about and recommending to others [If I reviewed it, I linked to the review]:
11. Make It Stay by Joan Frank [Permanent Press]
12. Divorce Islamic Style by Amara Lakhous [Europa]
13. The Lion is In by Delia Ephron [Blue Rider Press]
14. Beside the Sea by Veronique Olmi [Tin House Books]
15. The News from Spain by Joan Wickersham [Knopf]
16. Hemingway’s Girl by Erika Robuck [NAL, 2012]
17. Threats by Amelia Gray [Farrar, Straus and Giroux]
18. MISS FULLER by April Bernard [SteerForth Press]
19. Cascade by Maryanne O’Hara [Viking]
20. An Unattended Death by Victoria Jenkins [The Permanent Press]
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BOOKS: Best of 2012 So Far
Posted by Amy Steele in Books on September 10, 2012
[these are listed in the order that I’ve read them]
The Last Nude by Ellis Avery [Riverhead, 2012]
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margo Livesey [HarperCollins, 2012]
Stay Awake: stories by Dan Chaon [Ballantine/Random House, 2012]
Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood by Charlotte Silver [2012]
Make It Stay by Joan Frank [Permanent Press, 2012]
Divorce Islamic Style by Amara Lakhous [Europa, April 2012]
The Lion is In by Delia Ephron [March 2012]
Guts by Kristen Johnston [March 2012]
Threats by Amelia Gray [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012]
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green [Dutton, 2012]
Dirt by David Vann [Harper, April 2012]
I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern [IT Books, 2012]
Lizz Free or Die by Lizz Winstead [Riverhead Books, 2012]
MISS FULLER by April Bernard [SteerForth Press, 2012]
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian [Doubleday, 2012]
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus [Knopf, 2012]
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz [Riverhead, 2012]
The Age of Desire by Jennie Fields [Pamela Dorman, 2012]
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covering mostly music and books. focus on alternative/indie and women in music, literature and the arts. feminist. vegan. mostly alternative, a bit bohemian. Masters in journalism from Boston University. BA from Simmons College.
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