Bonus Content – Book In The Bag’s Best Books of 2012

Well, it’s been a good first few months, and I hope the holidays found you loaded with new books and a little bit sweeter for all the cookies.  Here at BitB, we’re proud of our showing for 2012, and hope that you’ll follow us into the next year.

We had visitors from 51 countries on 6 continents last year, and our most popular post was (totally unsurprisingly) Chris Baty’s interview back in October  (which you can find here: https://bookinthebag.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/writer-wednesday-chris-baty/).

Did we have some bad reviews, oh, yeah.  The law of averages says that eventually we’ll find a stinker or two – and we all did.  But there were also some great books.  Without futher ado, I bring to you the Best Books of 2012 -books somebody on our panel of reviewers gave a five page rating to at some point last year.

• The Three Pigs by David Weisner
• The Jigsaw Woman by Kim Antieau
• OhneWorterBush by Langenscheidt
• The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
• James May’s Lego House by BBC
• Deutsch Fur Den Auslander by Florian Lamp & Heldrich Johannes
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
• The Wonderland Alphabet by Alethea Kontis
• Alpha Oops: H is for Halloween by Alethea Kontis
• Alpha Oops: The Day That Z Went First by Alethea Kontis
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling

What will 2013 bring?  About three hundred books, but beyond that, I can’t say.  What book would You give a five page review to?  What review from last year surprised you?