We continue our look at the best books of the year with the Top 50 Books of 2012. All of the titles listed below appeared on at least three other best books lists from other media sources.

Titles marked with an * are currently in the CA Library collection.

Teen Fiction

• Ask The Passengers by A.S. King *
• Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore *
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein *
• The Diviners by Libba Bray *
• Dodger by Terry Pratchett *
• Every Day by David Levithan *
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green *
• Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin, Book 1) by Robin LaFevers *
• Insurgent (Divergent Series #2) by Veronica Roth *
• Keeping The Castle by Patrice Kindl *
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth *
• Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick *
• No Crystal Stair: A Novel in Documents, Based on the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson *
• Pandemonium (Delirium Series #2) by Lauren Oliver *
• The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle) by Maggie Stiefvater *
• Reached (Matched Trilogy #3) by Ally Condie *
• Seraphina by Rachel Hartman *
• Son by Lois Lowry *

General Fiction

• The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker *
• At Last (Patrick Melrose Series #5) by Edward St. Aubyn
• Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
• Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: A Novel by Ben Fountain *
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• Building Stories by Chris Ware
• Canada by Richard Ford
• The Cove by Ron Rash *
• Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn *
• A Hologram For The King by Dave Eggers
• The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich
• Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon *
• Tell The Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
• This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• The Yellow Birds: A Novel by Kevin Powers

Nonfiction

• Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo *
• Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport *
• The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe *
• Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
• Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
• The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death by Jill Lepore
• Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
• The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 by Robert A. Caro
• The People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo–and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry
• Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
• Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed *