My co-editors and I have been busy voting on (and arguing over) our favorite books of 2012 (we’ll share our official Best of 2012 list in a couple of weeks) . . . and now it’s time for you to make your voice heard!
If you tell us your favorite NEW book you read in 2012, you will be entered to win 10 books in a genre of your choice, hand-picked by BookPage editors. (In other words, you could win 10 biographies, or 10 mysteries, or 10 historical novels, or 10 YA books . . .) I repeat: The book must be published in 2012, or we will not count your vote. Vote here.
Could it be that one of the books featured on our cover is your favorite book of the year?
You have until November 30 to vote, and we’ll share the results in the December 4 edition of BookPageXTRA.
When you vote for your favorite book of the year, it helps us make BookPage better for you. If thousands of you vote for a suspense novel, we might cover more suspense. If you vote for memoirs, we might interview more memoirists. If you vote for a historical novel, we might give away more historical novels in our Monday Contests. You get the idea. So go vote, why don’t you!
If you need a reminder of what books you loved this year, you might browse through our 2012 BookPage archive.
ALSO IN BOOKPAGE:
Readers’ Choice: Best Books of 2011.
Readers’ Choice: Best Books of 2010.
Readers’ Choice: Best Books of 2009.
May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy.
The Casual Vacancy
A Grown Up Kind Of Pretty by Joshilyn Jenkins
Make sure to enter your vote here: https://app.e2ma.net/app2/survey/28888/213010343/8b9322a8dd/?v=a
Happy voting, readers!
Gone girl
Not usually a huge fan of non-fiction, but Wild by Cheryl Strayed was a real favorite this year.
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
I voted for The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn would be my second choice.
TILT by Ellen Hopkins
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. It’s a book I normally would never have tried. A friend whom I respect and admire recommended it. I ended up staying up til two in the morning on the third night of reading to finish it.
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
Easy to answer — “In the Shadow of the Banyan” by Vaddey Ratner. A very interesting read. Good to learn about this aspect of history that seems to get overlooked.
Gone Girl
The Snow Child