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
2,889 members
243 reviews
4
2 Members
norabelle414, aulsmith
2
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
25,926 members
1,533 reviews
4.2
Member
SylviaC
3
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
15,435 members
369 reviews
4
Member
Edward
4
Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
6,736 members
339 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
souloftherose
5
The Snow Child
by Eowyn Ivey
4,483 members
330 reviews
4
Member
_Zoe_
6
Feet of clay : saints, sinners, and madmen : a study of gurus
by Anthony Storr
218 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
aulsmith
7
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
13,275 members
638 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
8
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
11,303 members
204 reviews
3.9
Member
Edward
9
Maisie Dobbs
by Jacqueline Winspear
4,737 members
269 reviews
3.8
Member
SylviaC
10
Marcelo in the Real World
by Francisco Stork
1,813 members
151 reviews
4.2
Member
_Zoe_
11
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by Henry Adams
1,087 members
12 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
12
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
14,205 members
730 reviews
4.2
Member
SylviaC
13
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
11,809 members
479 reviews
4.2
Member
souloftherose
14
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
7,658 members
393 reviews
4.1
Member
norabelle414
15
Behemoth
by Scott Westerfeld
2,426 members
126 reviews
4.1
Member
norabelle414
16
Gnomes
by Rien Poortvliet
2,285 members
37 reviews
4.1
Member
norabelle414
17
Book of Enchantments
by Patricia C. Wrede
1,310 members
12 reviews
3.9
Member
norabelle414
18
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
by Ron Rosenbaum
691 members
14 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
5,494 members
291 reviews
4.1
Member
_Zoe_
22
Catharine: and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
562 members
10 reviews
3.8
Member
souloftherose
23
Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front, 1939-1942
by Joyce Dennys
347 members
21 reviews
3.9
Member
SylviaC
24
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
5,791 members
225 reviews
3.9
Member
SylviaC
25
A View of the Harbour
by Elizabeth Taylor
563 members
32 reviews
4.1
Member
souloftherose
26
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
by Jillian Lauren
520 members
27 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
_Zoe_
27
Making Monsters
by Richard Ofshe
70 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
28
Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood
11,731 members
255 reviews
3.9
Member
souloftherose
29
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
8,683 members
214 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
30
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
8,777 members
199 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
31
Troubles
by J. G. Farrell
1,410 members
50 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
32
Room
by Emma Donoghue
14,055 members
969 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
33
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
by Matthys Levy
587 members
11 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
34
Elmer Gantry
by Sinclair Lewis
1,504 members
43 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
35
Gillespie and I
by Jane Harris
725 members
72 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
36
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
10,561 members
249 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
37
The Little White Horse
by Elizabeth Goudge
2,473 members
51 reviews
4.1
Member
souloftherose
38
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
by Joan Aiken
3,351 members
79 reviews
4.1
Member
souloftherose