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The Year in Books: Our 2012 Must Reads

December 30, 2012 by Laura Marie Meyers

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The Year in Books: Our 2012 Must Reads

This year, our monthly Must Reads featured fascinating books in a variety of genres. There were page-turning fictional novels, in-depth biographies, juicy celebrity memoirs, and everything in between. So if you'll be traveling this season or just enjoying a long, leisurely holiday break, now's the perfect time to catch up on the year's best books. Browse through these great picks from 2012 to find your holiday-travel read or perfect presents for the women in your life!

Elizabeth the Queen

The Accidental Feminist

The Last Nude

Gay Men Don't Get Fat

The Fault in Our Stars

Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?

The World We Found

Girl Land

The Fallback Plan

Smut

Mad Women

No Cheating, No Dying

That Woman

Going Solo

The Dressmaker

Once Upon a Secret

Ali in Wonderland

Hiding From Reality

The House I Loved

I've Got Your Number

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Barbra

Imagine

The Maid and the Queen

Girl Walks Into a Bar . . .

Another Piece of My Heart

The Expats

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage

The Vanishers

Guts

Guilty Wives

Betrayal

Fifty Shades of Grey

More Than You Know

Encore Performance

The Beginner's Goodbye

The Fame Game

A Natural Woman

Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Confessions of a Scary Mommy

The Shoemaker's Wife

A Difficult Woman

Most Talkative: Stories From the Front Lines of Pop Culture

The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn From Contemporary French Actresses

In One Person

Not in Front of the Corgis: Secrets of Life Behind the Royal Curtains

A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey

In the Kingdom of Men

The Newlyweds

Home

I Suck at Girls

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life

Are You My Mother?

Tasteful Nudes . . . and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation

Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 12)

America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom

Seating Arrangements

Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace

Winning Balance

The Innocents

Spring Fever

Pretty Little Liars #11: Stunning

The Age of Miracles

Gone Girl

An Unmarked Grave

The Chaperone

My Reality

Where We Belong

The Next Best Thing

The Final Years of Marilyn Monroe

Gold

Have Mother, Will Travel

The Empty Glass

The Sandcastle Girls

When We Were the Kennedys

The Great Escape

I Am Jennie

The After Wife

Crazy Brave

Friends Forever

Motherland

Solo: A Memoir of Hope

Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child

Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel

Banksy: You Are an Acceptable Level of Threat

First Cameraman: Documenting the Obama Presidency in Real Time

Paris: A Love Story

Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

In the Shadow of the Banyan: A Novel

The Dog Stars

Suri's Burn Book

The Casual Vacancy

Kicking & Dreaming

May We Be Forgiven

My Mother Was Nuts

This Is How You Lose Her

Telegraph Avenue

All Gone

Happier at Home

San Miguel

Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recovering Catholic

The Sins of the Mother

The Middlesteins

New Kids on the Block: Five Brothers and a Million Sisters

Ancient Light

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

The Secret Keeper

The Truth About Style

The Bridge

Hello, Gorgeous

Grace

Struck by Lightning

Dear Life

Fifty Shades of Chicken

Flight Behavior

Counting One's Blessings

Collateral

Brain on Fire

Sweet Tooth

Eight Girls Taking Pictures

Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith

Mae Murray: The Girl With the Bee-Stung Lips

Style Me Pretty Weddings: Inspiration and Ideas For an Unforgettable Celebration

An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris

Me Before You

Open Heart

The Child's Child

Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See

Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland

Shiver

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