Best books read in the first half of 2012

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What were the best books you read in the first half of the year?
1
Among Others
by Jo Walton
2,955 members
253 reviews
4
2 Members
norabelle414, aulsmith
2
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
27,123 members
1,557 reviews
4.2
Member
SylviaC
3
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
16,050 members
385 reviews
4
Member
Edward
4
Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
6,981 members
347 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
souloftherose
5
The Snow Child
by Eowyn Ivey
4,588 members
339 reviews
4
Member
_Zoe_
6
Feet of clay : saints, sinners, and madmen : a study of gurus
by Anthony Storr
224 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
aulsmith
7
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
13,575 members
655 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
8
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
11,655 members
211 reviews
3.9
Member
Edward
9
Maisie Dobbs
by Jacqueline Winspear
4,844 members
272 reviews
3.8
Member
SylviaC
10
Marcelo in the Real World
by Francisco Stork
1,840 members
153 reviews
4.2
Member
_Zoe_
11
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by Henry Adams
1,115 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
12
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
14,760 members
743 reviews
4.2
Member
SylviaC
13
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
13,307 members
515 reviews
4.2
Member
souloftherose
14
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
7,820 members
396 reviews
4.1
Member
norabelle414
15
Behemoth
by Scott Westerfeld
2,516 members
131 reviews
4.1
Member
norabelle414
16
Gnomes
by Rien Poortvliet
2,375 members
38 reviews
4.1
Member
norabelle414
17
Book of Enchantments
by Patricia C. Wrede
1,339 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
norabelle414
18
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
by Ron Rosenbaum
709 members
15 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
20
The hunting of the shark
by Bill Heine
3 members
1 review
3
Member
Edward
21
Fire
by Kristin Cashore
5,731 members
298 reviews
4.1
Member
_Zoe_
22
Catharine: and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
577 members
10 reviews
3.8
Member
souloftherose
23
Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front, 1939-1942
by Joyce Dennys
349 members
21 reviews
4
Member
SylviaC
24
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
5,933 members
227 reviews
3.9
Member
SylviaC
25
A View of the Harbour
by Elizabeth Taylor
582 members
33 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
26
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
by Jillian Lauren
529 members
27 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
_Zoe_
27
Making Monsters
by Richard Ofshe
72 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
28
Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood
11,923 members
259 reviews
3.9
Member
souloftherose
29
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
8,909 members
223 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
30
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
9,040 members
201 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
31
Troubles
by J. G. Farrell
1,463 members
52 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
32
Room
by Emma Donoghue
14,401 members
979 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
33
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
by Matthys Levy
605 members
11 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
34
Elmer Gantry
by Sinclair Lewis
1,547 members
44 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
35
Gillespie and I
by Jane Harris
736 members
72 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
36
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
10,860 members
251 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
37
The Little White Horse
by Elizabeth Goudge
2,571 members
52 reviews
4.1
Member
souloftherose
38
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
by Joan Aiken
3,465 members
85 reviews
4.1
Member
souloftherose