Staff Pick Favorites of 2012

Top Staff Picks 2012

There are always a few surprises, a few disagreements, but always, a shared joy of reading. Here's a list of our favorites, which even include a few from prior years. And there are so many more fabulous, worthy books that could have made our lists, but sometimes you just have to draw a line. So we limited ourselves to just 10.

How about you? What were your favorites? Let us know in the comments section of our website, or hop onto Twitter or meet us over on Facebook to chat. We can't wait to hear about your favorite reads.

Jenny
The Upright Piano Player by David Abbott (2011)

Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift 

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (2011)

Canada by Richard Ford 

A Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon 

The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson 

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (2011)

Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple

Sue

Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston
Canada by Richard Ford
May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
Glaciers by Alexis Smith
My Only Wife by Jac Jemc
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy

Margie            

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers  
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel 

This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz 

The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro               

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
The Baker's Daughter by Sarah McCoy 

Age of Desire by Jennie Fields

History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason 

Renée

Between Shades of Gray (Not 50 Shades of Gray!)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
The Journal of Best Practices by David Finch
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jennie Lawson
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Calling Invisible Women by Jeanne Ray

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Wall (2009)

The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted by Elizabeth Berg (2008)