For your convenience, I’m listing here the 92 books reviewed here in 2012, including 52 novels and 40 nonfiction books. I’m including the 10 commentaries and FAQs posted during the year as well. Each title is linked to its posted review.
52 novels reviewed here in 2012
Harbor Nocturne (Hollywood Station #5) by Joseph Wambaugh
Wrong Man Running by Alan Hruska
Agent 6 (Leo Demidov #3) by Tom Rob Smith
Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum #18) by Janet Evanovich
Breakdown (V. I. Warshawski #15) by Sara Paretsky
Believing the Lie (Inspector Lynley #17) by Elizabeth George
The Fear Index by Robert Harris
A Theory of Small Earthquakes by Meredith Maran
The Silent Oligarch by Chris Morgan Jones
The Bridge of Sighs (Yalta Boulevard #1) by Olen Steinhauer
The Ghost War (John Wells #2) by Alex Berenson
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
The Silent Man (John Wells #3) by Alex Berenson
The Confession (Yalta Boulevard #2) by Olen Steinhauer
Buried Secrets (Nick Heller #2) by Joseph Finder
The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
Harbor Nocturne (Hollywood Station #5) by Joseph Wambaugh
They Eat Puppies, Don’t They? by Christopher Buckley
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Mission to Paris by Alan Furst
36 Yalta Boulevard (Yalta Boulevard #3) by Olen Steinhauer
The Midnight House (John Wells #4) by Alex Berenson
Vulture Peak (Sonchai Jitpleecheep #5) by John Burdett
Istanbul Passage by Joseph Kanon
The Drowned Cities (Drowned Cities #2) by Paolo Bacigalupi
A Foreign Country (Thomas Kell #1) by Charles Cumming
The Mormon Candidate by Avraham Azrieli
The White House Mess by Christopher Buckley
Stolen Prey (Prey #22) by John Sandford
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad #4) by Tana French
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley
Criminal (Will Trent #7) by Karin Slaughter
Liberation Movements (Yalta Boulevard #4) by Olen Steinhauer
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley
Mad River (Virgil Flowers #6) by John Sandford
The Black Box (Harry Bosch #16) by Michael Connelly
River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy #2) by Amitav Ghosh
40 nonfiction books reviewed here in 2012
Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right by Dal LaMagna
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth by Mark Hertsgaard
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It by Chuck Collins
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail by Paul Polak
Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right by Dal LaMagna
Reverse Innovation: Create Far from Home, Win Everywhere by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
Rebuild the Dream by Van Jones
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll
Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know by David Bornstein and Susan Davis
Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power by David E. Sanger
Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World by Beverly Schwartz
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben McIntyre
KaBoom! How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play by Darrell Hammond
Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen
Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — But Some Don’t by Nate Silver
Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party by Lawrence Rosenthal and Christine Trost
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran by David Crist
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
10 commentaries and FAQs posted here in 2012
Third World development: A reading list
The top 10 books on the economics of poverty
Eight recent books that illuminate the state of affairs in America today
A resource list on social enterprise
The most interesting books I’ve read so far this year
18 nonfiction books that helped me understand the world
