Patricia's 2012 Book Awards

83 books were read this year, although, as with the movie awards, that isn't entirely true as I know I read at least one book (Ahem, the Art of Fielding Ahem, best book I read this year) twice.  83 books is a pretty good number.  Not too many, not too few.  You can read all of these reviews by clicking on the "Books" tag, or you can become my friend on Goodreads and find them that way.

Best book with no words on the page

The Disciples

James Mollison

Best holiday read aloud with your Significant Other

Dash and Lily's Book of Dares

Cohn & Levithan

Best book set in Indianapolis, Indiana

and

Funniest cancer book I've ever read

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

The "You've got 20 minutes?  Read this, it's wonderful" Award

What now?

Ann Patchett

Incredibly boring book I slogged my way through and then couldn't stop thinking about

Private Life

Jane Smiley

Book that inspired movie that is pretty much a scene-by-scene reproduction of the book

also

Author name that I love because it's simultaneously 1)Hawai'i native pride 2)kind of hippie 3)makes me think of Thomas Jefferson

The Descendants

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Book with so many fine details I could give it 12 awards but instead I'll just tell you to read it, dammit

Why we broke up

Daniel Handler

Really awesome YA kick-ass female character who I needed to get to page 150 before I fell in love, but then boy did I!

also

The "reading reviews of this book on Goodreads makes me think people are really weird" award.

Graceling

Kristin Cashore

Cookbook where I love not only the food but also the author's syntax

Make the Bread, Buy the Butter

Jennifer Reese

Best use of old-fashioned photos as narrative prompts

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs

Most fabulous of the Anne of Green Gables books, especially if you can get the version edited by Lefbvre

Rilla of Ingleside

L.M. Montgomery

Best territorial Oregon story I've ever read

Trask

Don Berry

Hands down, the best book I read this year and perhaps so far this decade

and

Even if you don't like baseball, you might want to read this

and

Excellent read aloud

and

How many awards do I have to give so you will read this book?

The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach

Book about disaffected youth I almost gave up on because of attitude, but persevered and was rewarded by some rather amazing prose

Please Don't Kill the Freshmen

Zoe Trope

Book I should have liked because it was full of elements I love, but didn't really ever cotton to

The Sisters Brothers

Patrick DeWitt

Best Picture book that had me laughing aloud in the house like a crazy woman.

Chloe and the Lion

Mac Burnett & Adam Rex

Best mystery set in London

Sister

Rosamund Lupton

Most delightful Internet concept to be translated into book form

Dear Photograph

Taylor Jones

Funniest book I read that was written by a feminist

BossyPants

Tina Fey

Funniest book I read by a sleepwalker

also

Book I kept wanting to read aloud to Matt, but managed to restrain myself.  Mostly.

Sleepwalk with Me

Mike Birbigla

Best multiple perspective book I read this year

and

Best recommend by Ms. Sara K.

Wonder

R.J. Palacio

Best book to encompass every plot point that doesn't involve aliens or guns

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

Most interesting subject award

The Man who Quit Money

Mark Sundeen

Book I adored as a teenager

Vision Quest

Terry Davis

Best YA book I read this year

and

Best historical fiction book I read this year

and

Best reason to relax the "no more WWII books" rule

Code Name Verity

Elizabeth Wein

Best reimagining of the Peter Pan story

Tiger Lily

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Best overall concept, excellently executed

Every Day

David Levithan

Best book I read set in a small Montana town

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Emily Danforth