2012.Book25 - Unseen Academicals (Pratchett)

Very good discworld.

2012.Book24 - Insurrection (Rollins)

Excellent pyro.

2012.Book23 - Broken Words (Dudley)

Pretty good political/religious analysis. But why try so hard to play that game?

2012.Book22 - Embassytown (Mievielle)

OK SF. Mieville has pretty good ideas, but not characters. His older stuff was more spectacular (The Scar), so it wasn't as noticeable.

2012.Book21 - Religion Explained (Boyer)

Excellent anthropology/sociology

2012.Book20 - Are We Still Rolling (Brown)

Fairly interesting account of a recording engineer's professional life. Turned me onto Little Feat, so worthwhile.

2012.Book19 - The Wise Man's Fear (Rothfuss)

More excellent epic fantasy.

2012.Book18 - Every Twelve Second (Pachirat)

Very good academic non-fiction.

2012.Book17 - Staring at the Sun (Yalom)

Excellent psychology. Affirming life through considering death.

2012.Book16 - Makers (Doctorow)

Pretty good near-future business fiction.

2012.Book15 - Assassins of the Turquoise Palace (Hakakian)

Very good non-fiction. Hooray for the German justice system.

2012.Book14 - The Name of the Wind (Rothfuss)

Excellent straight-up fantasy.

2012.Book13 - True Grit (Portis)

Excellent comic? western.

2012.Book12 - Diary of a Player (Paisley)

A happy memoir. The feeling of being set on a good path by people who love you and achieving success, recognition, and acceptance. That's a good feeling.

2012.Book11 - All is Grace (Manning)

A very sad memoir. A life of pain and disappointment. At least from the inside.

2012.Book10 - The Denial of Death (Becker)

Very good. First part was very affecting (human condition). He ends up with a pretty negative story (we must embrace a useful illusion) that I don't want to accept.

2012.Book9 - Among Others (Walton)

Very good SFF? An ending almost as spectacular as Walton's "Tooth and Claw"

2012.Book8 - Persuasion (Austen)

Very good character study. Typical Austen payoff.

2012.Book7 - The Influencing Machine (Gladstone)

Pretty good graphic non-fiction about media.

2012.Book6 - We Meant Well (Van Buren)

Excellent non-fiction about post-war reconstruction efforts in Iraq.