Books of 2012

Here is the full list of the books that we read this last year. The selections were from: the Giller Prize (any year), books shortlisted for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize that was not awarded, other Pulilitzers, the Commonwealth Prize and the random choice - a biography.

The Sentimentalists" by Johanna Skibsrud

419 by Will Ferguson

Half Blood Blues By Esi Edugyan

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I survived Nellie Oleson's and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim

"Hotel du Lac" by Anita Brodener

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

Galore by Michael Crummy

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas