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Best Books Of 2012 The Complete List Find recommendations for fiction, nonfiction, mystery, short stories, graphic novels and more. Here are all of NPRs. Define physical education instruction in the development and care of the body ranging from simple calisthenic physical education in a sentence. Notable Books of 2. AT LAST. By Edward St. Aubyn. Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2. The final and most meditative of St. Aubyns brilliant Patrick Melrose novels is full of precise observations and glistening turns of phrase. BEAUTIFUL RUINS. By Jess Walter. HarperHarper. Collins, 2. Walters witty sixth novel, set largely in Hollywood, reveals an American landscape of vice, addiction, loss and disappointed hopes. BILLY LYNNS LONG HALFTIME WALK. By Ben Fountain. EccoHarper. Collins, 2. 5. 9. The survivors of a fierce firefight in Iraq are whisked stateside for a brief victory tour in this satirical novel. BLASPHEMY. By Sherman Alexie. Grove, 2. 7. The best stories in Alexies collection of new and selected works are moving and funny, bringing together the embittered critic and the yearning dreamer. THE BOOK OF MISCHIEF New and Selected Stories. By Steve Stern. Graywolf, 2. Jewish immigrant lives observed with effusive nostalgia. BRING UP THE BODIES. By Hilary Mantel. MacraeHolt, 2. 8. Mantels sequel to Wolf Hall traces the fall of Anne Boleyn, and makes the familiar story fascinating and suspenseful again. BUILDING STORIES. By Chris Ware. Pantheon, 5. A big, sturdy box containing hard bound volumes, pamphlets and a tabloid houses Wares demanding, melancholy and magnificent graphic novel about the inhabitants of a Chicago building. BY BLOOD. By Ellen Ullman. Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2. This smart, slippery novel is a narrative striptease, as a professor listens in on the sessions between the therapist next door and her patients. CANADA. By Richard Ford. EccoHarper. Collins, 2. A boy whose parents rob a bank in North Dakota in 1. CARRY THE ONE. By Carol Anshaw. Simon Schuster, 2. Anshaw pays close attention to the lives of a group of friends bound together by a fatal accident in this wry, humane novel, her fourth. CITY OF BOHANE. By Kevin Barry. Graywolf, 2. 5. Somewhere in Ireland in 2. Barrys extraordinary, exuberant first novel is full of inventive language. COLLECTED POEMS. By Jack Gilbert. Knopf, 3. 5. In orderly free verse constructions, Gilbert deals plainly with grief, love, marriage, betrayal and lust. DEAR LIFE Stories. By Alice Munro. Knopf, 2. This volume offers further proof of Munros mastery, and shows her striking out in the direction of a new, late style that sums up her whole career. THE DEVIL IN SILVER. By Victor La. Valle. Spiegel Grau, 2. La. Valles culturally observant third novel is set in a shabby urban mental hospital. ENCHANTMENTS. By Kathryn Harrison. Random House, 2. Harrisons splendid and surprising novel of late imperial Russia centers on Rasputins daughter Masha and the hemophiliac czarevitch Alyosha. FLIGHT BEHAVIOR. By Barbara Kingsolver. HarperHarper. Collins, 2. An Appalachian woman becomes involved in an effort to save monarch butterflies in this brave and majestic novel. FOBBIT. By David Abrams. Black CatGroveAtlantic, paper, 1. Clerks, cooks and lawyers at a forward operating base in Iraq populate this first novel. THE FORGETTING TREE. By Tatjana Soli. St. Martins, 2. 5. 9. In Solis haunting second novel, a mysterious Caribbean woman cares for a cancer patient on an isolated California ranch. GATHERING OF WATERS. By Bernice L. Mc. Fadden. Akashic, 2. Three generations of black women confront floods and murder in Mississippi. GODS WITHOUT MEN. By Hari Kunzru. Knopf, 2. Related stories, spanning centuries and continents, and all tethered to a desert rock formation, emphasize interconnectivity across time and space in Kunzrus relentlessly modern fourth novel. HHh. H. By Laurent Binet. Translated by Sam Taylor. Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2. This gripping novel examines both the killing of an SS general in Prague in 1. Binets experience in writing about it. A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING. By Dave Eggers. Mc. Sweeneys, 2. 5. Eggerss novel is a haunting and supremely readable parable of America in the global economy, a nostalgic lament for a time when life had stakes and people worked with their hands. HOME. By Toni Morrison. Knopf, 2. 4. A black Korean War veteran, discharged from an integrated Army into a segregated homeland, makes a reluctant journey back to Georgia in a novel engaged with themes that have long haunted Morrison. HOPE A TRAGEDY. By Shalom Auslander. Guidance Note 8 17Th Edition. Riverhead, 2. 6. Hilarity alternates with pain in this novel about a Jewish man seeking peace in upstate New York who discovers Anne Frank in his attic. HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE By Sheila Heti. Holt, 2. The narrator also named Sheila and her friends try to answer the question in this novels title. IN ONE PERSON. By John Irving. Simon Schuster, 2. Irvings funny, risky new novel about an aspiring writer struggling with his sexuality examines what happens when we face our desires honestly. A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME. By Wiley Cash. MorrowHarper. Collins, 2. 4. 9. An evil pastor dominates Cashs mesmerizing first novel. MARRIED LOVE And Other Stories. By Tessa Hadley. Harper Perennial, paper, 1. Hadleys understatedly beautiful collection is filled with exquisitely calibrated gradations and expressions of class. Photo. Credit. Julia Rothman NW. By Zadie Smith. Penguin Press, 2. The lives of two friends who grew up in a northwest London housing project diverge, illuminating questions of race, class, sexual identity and personal choice, in Smiths energetic modernist novel. ON THE SPECTRUM OF POSSIBLE DEATHS. By Lucia Perillo. Copper Canyon, 2. Taut, lucid poems filled with complex emotional reflection. PURE. By Julianna Baggott. Grand Central, 2. Children battle for the planets redemption in this precisely written postapocalyptic adventure story. THE RIGHT HAND SHORE. By Christopher Tilghman. Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2. A dark, magisterial novel set on a Chesapeake Bay estate. Parrot Serial Cable Ck3100 Wiring there. THE ROUND HOUSE. By Louise Erdrich. HarperHarper. Collins, 2. In this novel, an American Indian family faces the ramifications of a vicious crime. SALVAGE THE BONES. By Jesmyn Ward. Bloomsbury, 2. A pregnant 1. 5 year old and her family await Hurricane Katrina in this lushly written novel. SAN MIGUEL. By T. Coraghessan Boyle. Viking, 2. 7. 9. Two utopians from different eras establish private idylls on Californias desolate Channel Islands this novel preserves their tantalizing dreams. SHINE SHINE SHINE. By Lydia Netzer. St. Martins, 2. 4. 9. This thought provoking debut novel presents a geeky astronaut and his pregnant wife. SHOUT HER LOVELY NAME. By Natalie Serber. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2. The stories in Serbers first collection are smart and nuanced. SILENT HOUSE. By Orhan Pamuk. Translated by Robert Finn. Knopf, 2. 6. 9. 5. A family is a microcosm of a country on the verge of a coup in this intense, foreboding novel, first published in Turkey in 1. THE STARBOARD SEA. By Amber Dermont. St. Martins, 2. Dermonts captivating debut novel, whose narrator is a boarding school student and a sailor, takes pleasure in the sea and in the exhilarating freedom of being young. SWEET TOOTH. By Ian Mc. Ewan. Nan A. TaleseDoubleday, 2. The true subject of this smart and tricky novel, set inside a cold war espionage operation, is the border between make believe and reality. SWIMMING HOME. By Deborah Levy. Bloomsbury, paper, 1. In this spare, disturbing and frequently funny novel, a troubled young woman tests the marriages of two couples. TELEGRAPH AVENUE. By Michael Chabon. HarperHarper. Collins, 2.