2012.Book37 - The Quantum Thief (Rajaniemi)

Very good fairly hard SF.

2012.Book36 - The Magician King (Grossman)

More excellent fantasy. Even better than the first.

2012.Book35 - The Magicians (Grossman)

Excellent fantasy. Highly recommended.

2012.Book34 - Red Plenty (Spufford)

Pretty good semi-fictional economic history.

2012.Book33 - The Oligarchs (Hoffmann)

Interesting history of the people who took over when economic restrictions were lifted in the former Soviet Union. Hoffmann goes out of his way to demonize those who came before and after the oligarchs, who can only look good in comparison, if that.

2012.Book32 - Empire of the Mind (Axworthy)

Pretty interesting history of Iran/Persia. An amazing, war-torn part of the world. Who knew Khan and Tamburlaine were such genocidaires?

2012.Book31 - Who Killed Canadian History (Granatstein)

Pretty good lament for history education in Canada.

2012.Book30 - Chavs (Jones)

Excellent economic sociology about the oppression and demonization of the working class in Britain.

2012.Book29 - In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (Mate)

Excellent.

2012.Book28 - Tough Shit (Smith)

Pretty bad auto-bio. Sometimes entertaining, not funny, ultimately self-indulgent.

2012.Book27 - The Hunger Games (Collins)

Pretty good YA fic.

2012.Book26 - Small Favor (Butcher)

Very good Dresden. Reading the series backwards isn't a great idea, though.

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.