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Entertainment Realm’s 20 Picks for Best Fiction [1-10]

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]:

people of forever

1.The People of Forever are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu [Hogarth]

the-collective

2. The Collective by Don Lee [W.W.Norton]

age of desire

3. The Age of Desire by Jennie Fields [Pamela Dorman]

this is how you lose her

4. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz [Riverhead]

dirt

5. Dirt by David Vann [Harper]

the last nude

6. The Last Nude by Ellis Avery [Riverhead]

fault in our stars

7. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green [Dutton]

too bright to hear too loud

8. Too Bright to Hear Too Loud To See by Juliann Garey [Soho]

flame-cover-2

9. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus [Knopf]

stay awake

10. Stay Awake: stories by Dan Chaon [Ballantine/Random House]

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BOOKS: Best of 2012 So Far

[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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