2012 Top Ten Reads
Books that entertained and/or impressed us most in 2012
Books listed in no specific order
Not everyone chose to participate.

Barbara Buhrer

1. Wicked Delights of the Bridal Bed - Tracey Anne Warren [review]
2. Crossfire - Dick Francis
3. Warlord - Ted Bell [review]
4. Watch by Moonlight - Kate Hawks [review]
5. The Woodcutter - Reginald Hill [review]
6. Scent of Rain and Lightning - Nancy Packard
7. The Stranger House - Reginald Hill [review]
8. The Final Storm - Jeff Shaara
9. The Affair - Lee Child [review]
10. Where Shadows Dance - CS Harris [review]

Beth McKenzie

1. The Infinity of Lists - Umberto Eco and Alastair McEwen
2. Where's My Cow? - Terry Pratchett and Melvyn Grant [review]
3. The Black Cat - Martha Grimes [review] (Audio)
4. Surviror in Death - JD Robb (Audio)
5. Devil May Cry - Sherrilyn Kenyon (Audio)
6. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag - Alan Bradley [review] (Audio)
7. Dogs and Goddesses - Jennifer Crusie, Anne Stuart and Lani Diane Rich (Audio)
8. In the Garden Trilogy - Nora Roberts [review-Red Lily] (Audio)
9. The Strange Files of Fremont Jones - Dianne Day (Audio)
10. Interred with Their Bones - Jennifer Lee Carrell [review] (Audio)

Beverly Rowe

1. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
2. In Desperation - Rick Mofina [review]
3. Wench - Dolen Perkins-Valdez
4. The First Domino - Dennis Collins [review]
5. Spider Bones - Kathy Reichs [
6. The Blue Zone - Andrew Gross [review] [AOM]
7. The Help - Kathryn Stockett ]
8. As the Crow Dies - Ken Casper
9. Devil Red - Joe R Lansdale
10. Unrest in Eden - Florence Byham Weinberg
    

Bob Walch

1. I Am Half-Sick of Shadows - Alan Bradley
2. Oracle of Stamboul - Lukas
3. The Lantern - Deborah Lawrenson [review]
4. Twelve Drummers Drumming - C C Benison
5. Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino
6. Carte Blanche - Jeffery Deaver
7. The Fallen Angel - David Hewson
8. Blood, Iron and Gold - Christian Wolmer
9. Blotto, Twigs and the Ex-King's Daughter - Brett Simon [review]
10. Everyone's a Winner - Joel Best

Brenda Weeaks

1. Is Everyone Ready for Fun? - Jan Thomas [review]
2. A Deadly Penance – Maureen Ash [review]
3. Angel’s Verdict – Mary Stanton [review]
4. The Sherlockian – Graham Moore [review]
5. Living Beyond Your Feelings - Joyce Meyer [review] (Audio)
6. The Spymaster's Lady - Joanna Bourne [review] (Audio)
7. Forced to Kill - Andrew Peterson [review] (Audio)
8. A Desirable Residence - Madeleine Wickham [review] (Audio)
9. Hell’s Corner – David Baldacci [review] (Audio)
10. The Inner Circle – Brad Meltzer [review] (Audio)

Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban

1. Chime - Franny Billingsley
2. A Thousand Times More Fair - Kenji Yoshino [review]
3. Prospero in Hell - L. Jagi Lamplighter [review]
4. India Black - Carol K. Carr [review]
5. Coronets and Steel - Sherwood Smith [review]
6. Life - James Fox and Keith Richards [review] (Audio)
7. The Goblin Wood - Hilari Bell
8. Second Sight - Cheryl B. Klein [review]
9. City of Dragons - Robin Hobb [review]
10. Paul Among the People - Sarah Ruden [review]

Carol Ann Johnson

1. Godness of love - Jackie Collins
2. Capital Wives - Rochelle Alers
3. Happy Birthday - Danielle Steel
4. Full Figured 3 - Carl Weber, Brenda Hampton
5. The Bride Experiment - Mimi Jefferson
6. Now You See Her - James Patterson [review]
7. The Sea of Aaron - Kimberly Hunt
8. 10th Anniversary (Woman’s Murder Club) - James Patterson
9. The Deal, the Dance, and the Devil - Victoria Christopher Murray
10. Kris Jenner & All things Kardashian - Kris Jenner

Carolyn Howard-Johnson

1. Username - Joyce Faulkner
2. Agni -Boston University
3. Boyfriend from Hell - E. Van Lowe
4. Outwitting Writer’s Block and other Problems of the Pen - Jenna Glatzer
5. Aliens! Surf! Santa Cruz! - Fred Reiss
6. Ignite the Genius Within -Dr. Christine Ranck and Christopher Lee Nutter
7. Surviving Depression with Art Therapy - Joyce White
8. Concerning E. M. Forster - Frank Kermode
9. The Essential Don Murray - edited by Thomas Newkirk and Lisa C. Miller
10. Writers’ Tricks of the Trade - Morgan St. James

Cornelia Amiri

1. Cold Magic - Kate Elliott
2. Dead Iron - Devon Monk
3. Heartless - Gail Carriger
4. The Kingdom of Ohio - Matthew Flaming
5. Among Others - Jo Walton
6. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe - Charles Yu
7. Maid to Match - Deeanne Gist [review]
8. Shadow Fever - Karen Marie Moning
9. Sword of Darkness - Kinley MacGregor
10. The Greyfriar - Clary Griffith & Susan Griffith

Elise Cooper

1. Sharon - Gilad Sharon
2. In My Time - Vice-President Cheney [review]
3. Against All Enemies - Tom Clancy
4. Portrait of a Spy - Daniel Silva [review]
5. Guilt by Association - Marcia Clark
6. Black Wolf - Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice [review]
7. Coup d' état - Ben Coes [review]
8. Scorpions for Breakfast - Governor Jan Brewer [review]
9. Rin Tin Tin - Susan Orlean [review]
10. The Reversal - Michael Connelly [Book review] [Audio review]
    

Jan Fields

1. The Midnight Tunnel - Angie Frazier
2. The Luck of the Buttons - Anne Ylvisaker
3. The Great Wall of Lucy Wu - Wendy Wan-Long Shang
4. Rocky Road - Rose Kent
5. Tomorrow Girls: Behind the Gates - Eva Gray
6. The Grand Plan to Fix Everything - Uma Krishnaswami
7. Stir It Up! - Ramin Ganeshram
8. Tuesdays at the Castle - Jessica Day George
9. The Aviary - Kathleen O'Dell
10. Nowhere Girl - A.J. Paquette [review]

Jo Rogers

1. Cleopatra – Stacy Schief [review] (Audio)
2. Top Secret America – Priest / Arkin [review] (Audio)
3. Suicide Run – Michael Connelly [review] (Audio)
4. The House of Silk – Anthony Horowitz [review] (Audio)
5. Gideon’s Sword – Preston & Child [review] (Audio)
6. Angel – James Patterson [review] (Audio)
7. After Dark, My Sweet – Jim Thompson [review] (Audio)
8. The Drop – Michael Connelly [review] (Audio)
9. A Darkness More Than Night – Michael Connelly [review] (Audio)
10. Now You See Her – James Patterson [review] (Audio)

Laura Hinds

1. Curiosity Thrilled The Cat - Sofie Kelly
2. Pleating for Mercy - Melissa Bourbon [review]
3. Lawn Order - Molly McRae
4. Button Holed - Kylie Logan [review]
5. The Peach Keeper - Sarah Addison Allen
6. Mind Over Matter - Alison Kingsley
7. Chihuahua of the Baskervilles - Esri Allbritten
8. The Gingerbread Bump Off - Livia J Washburn [review]
9. The Weird Sisters - Eleanor Brown
10. Dangerous Alterations - Elizabeth Lynn Casey [review]

Leslie Halpern

1. The Power - Rhonda Byrne
2. Return to Love - Marianne Williamson
3. The Five Love Languages - Gary Chapman
4. The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
5. Ask and It Is Given - Esther and Jerry Hicks
6. Green for Life - Victoria Boutenko
7. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway - Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.
8. Bright Star. Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne - John Keats
9. The Voice of the Dolphins - Hardy Jones [review]
10. Entenmann's Big Book of Baking - Kathleen Robbins [review]

Linda Morelli

1. The Redbreast - Jo Nesbø [review]
2. A Killing in Antiques - Mary Moody [review]
3. My Immortal Assassin - Carolyn Jewel [review]
4. Deadly Heat - Cynthia Eden [review]
5. It Happened One Season - Laurens, Balogh, D’Alessandro and Hern [review]
6. Past Midnight -Mara Purnhagen [review]
7. The First Love Cookie Club - Lori Wilde [review]
8. An Uninvited Ghost - E J Copperman [review]
9. Too Wicked to Love - Debra Mullins [review]
10. Black Ties and Lullabies - Jane Graves [review]

Linda young

1. The Viking's Captive - Sandra Hill [review]
2. When Beauty Tamed the Beast - Eloisa James [review]
3. Never a Gentleman - Eileen Dreyer [review]
4. A Tale of Two Vikings - Sandra Hill [review]
5. The Guardian - Margaret Mallory [review]
6. Retribution - Sherrilyn Kenyon [review]
7. Changling Moon - Dani Harper [review]
8. How to Seduce a Scoundrel - Vicky Dreiling [review]
9. Waking Up With the Duke - Lorraine Heath [review]
10. The Wild Road - Marjorie M. Liu [review]

Michael G'Francisco

1. The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes - Sidney Paget
2. Crimes of the 20th Century A Chronology - Crescent Books
3. The Outfit - Gus Russo
4. FBI Handbook of Crime Scene Forensics by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
5. Return to the Scene of the Crime / Chicago by Richard Lindberg
6. Democracy - Henry Brooks Adams
7. All the Kings Men - Robert Penn Warren
8. American Wife - Curtis Siottinfeld
9. The Kerry Kilcannon Political Fiction Trilogy - Richard North Patterson (No Safe Place, Protect and Defend, Balance of Power)

Rachel A. Hyde

1. Devil-Devil – G W Kent [review]
2. A Dead Man in Malta - Michael Pearce [review]
3. Hill of Bones - Mediaeval Murders [review]
4. The Seal King Murders - Alanna Knight [review]
5. Death in a Scarlet Coat - David Dickinson [review]
6. Tomb of the Serpent - Guy Fraser [review]
7. Anthem For Doomed Youth - Carola Dunn [review]
8. Railway to the Grave - Edward Marston [review]
9. Hawke’s Tor - E V Thompson [review]
10. Bills of Mortality - Norman Russell [review]

Susan Johnson

1. Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
2. A Fine Dark Line - Joe Lansdale
3. The Headhunters Daughter - Tamar Myers
4. Winter Range - Claire Davis
5. Hell is Empty - Craig Johnson [review]
6. Still Missing - Chevy Stevens
7. The Courage Tree -Diane Chamberlain
8. Ape House - Sara Gruen
9. Iron House -John Hart
10. Peach Keeper - Sara Addision Allen

Willie Elliott

1. A Good Talk - Daniel Menaker [review]
2. Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin [review]
3. Heaven Is for Real - Todd Burpo and Lylnn Vincent [column]
4. Emory's Gift - Bruce Cameron [review]
5. My Purple Toes - Blair Hahn [review]
6. Ashfall - Mike Mullin [review]
7. The Global Warming Deception - Dr. Grant R. Jeffery [review]
8. God Gave Us You - Lisa T. Bergren [review]
9. Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan - Hildi Kang [review]
10. The Words That Shaped Me - Aliza Davidoit [review]