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John Deaderick and I: favorite books of 2012
For various reasons Cameron Cobden and Alison Jones-Pomatto weren't able to join in our annual discussion of our favorites among the books we'd read in the past year. That left just John Deaderick and myself to hash it out. Here's what we came up with:

John Deaderick

The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Field Gray by Philip Kerr
The Assault by Harry Mulisch
The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski


Eric Tomb

The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
1491 by Charles C Mann
The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein
The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall

Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, Annie Di Donna
Poems by Anna Akhmatova edited and translated by Lyn Coffin

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