Cover to Cover Challenge discussion

And because we know that you cannot just have one favorite, fire away your top five favorites!

A Good American --written by a British author living in the U.S.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo a U.S. author who lives in Sweden

Definatey a hunger like no other by kresley cole...followed closely by good omens by pratchett and gaiman.

In no specific order because I could never choose
Nineteen Minutes
Handle With Care
Safe Haven
The Best of Me
Where We Belong

Cassie ♥ wrote: "A Good American --written by a British author living in the U.S.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo a U.S. author who lives in Sweden"

I've heard quite a bit about Good American. I'm glad that it is one of your favorites!

My five favorites for 2012 were:
Life of Pi
The White Tiger
The Poisonwood Bible
The Kite Runner
Elegance of the Hedgehog

Top 5 favorite books read in 2012:
The Book Thief
Come Home
The Fault in Our Stars
Gone Girl
Still Alice

I am probably in the minority when I say this but I don't have "favorites" when it comes to books. I read them, rate them,enjoy them and move on LOL.But it's fun to see what everyone else's favorites are ☺ I don't usually re-read books either unless it is a book that I read years and years ago when I was in middle school/jr high school where I don't really remember a lot of the story line.

LOL - I couldn't even narrow it to five! I read quite a bit and enjoy a wide variety of genres, so I could only narrow it down to 10 from the list of those I truly loved, listed here in no particular order:
- The Master Butchers Singing Club - Louise Erdrich
- The Ice Princess - Camilla Lackberg
- The Fourth Man - K.O. Dahl
- Virgin River - Robyn Carr
- Bahamarama (and the next two in his mystery series, Jamaica Me Dead and Bermuda Schwartz) - Bob Morris
- Catching Jordan - Miranda Keneally
- Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
- The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection - Alexander McCall Smith
- The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
- The Earth Hums in B Flat - Mari Strachan

Best books I read in 2012 (all rated 4.5* or better):
Red Seas Under Red Skies
A Game of Thrones
The Name of the Wind
The War of the Worlds
Nicholas Nickleby

At the top of my list and my brain at the moment my favorite of the 2012 year was:

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

**waves at Magipe** How are ya? It's been a while since I have seen you ☺ Hope all is well with ya and you are having a great New Year!!!!

A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash

I didn't read that many books that blew me away last year, but these are the ones that stood out.

Girl Under Glass
The Mark of Athena
Life's too Short

At Swim Two Birds surprised me for several reasons. It stayed with me most of the year.

Got hooked on the Flavian De Luce series by Alan Bradley

Great lists, all! I seem to be adding a lot of books to my list now.

I've added all books (but one) until this post to the group bookshelf under 2012-member-favorites shelf. The book I didn't add is one of Jessica's favorites, Life's too Short. A GR search gave me too many choices. Jessica, could you let me know the author so that I can add the book to the group? Thanks! :)

My 10 favourite reads of 2012 are (in a somewhat particular order):
1. The Fault in Our Stars
2. The Language of Flowers
3. The Virgin Cure
4. The Maze Runner
5. The Scorpio Races
6. Once a Witch
7. The Demon King
8. XVI
9. Always a Witch
10. Passion

I particularly enjoyed these in audio book format:

The Story of Beautiful Girl
Open (I'm a huge tennis fan)

I also liked UnWholly which is the second book in the "Unwind" series.

favorite books of 2012:

Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Forbidden
I am Forbidden
Grave Mercy
Gone Girl

♥Robin ♥ wrote: "**waves at Magipe** How are ya? It's been a while since I have seen you ☺ Hope all is well with ya and you are having a great New Year!!!!"

Hello Back!!!! Sorry I don't get to this room very often... New Year is going well, Thanks!

Hard to pick just 5, but here goes:

Captain Corelli's Mandolin
A Thread of Grace
The Lotus Eaters
Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War
V is for Vengeance