Every year CPL's Lunch and a Book Club picks our favorite reads of the year. These are our favorite reads for 2012. The picks are as eclectic as our group! Feel free to join us. We meet on the second Thursday of every month at noon in CPL's Community Room.

Fiction

Amadeus: a play by Peter Shaffer

Defending Jacob: a novel by William Landay

The dog stars by Peter Heller

Don't Let Me Go by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fall of giants by Ken Follett

Gone girl: a novel by Gillian Flynn

Heathcote House by Louise Carmichael Howe

The light between oceans: a novel by M.L. Stedman

The Little Snow Girl by Nellie McCaslin

Snobbery with violence: an Edwardian murder mystery by Marion Chesney

The snow child: a novel by Eowyn Ivey

South of superior by Ellen Airgood

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The sweet hereafter: a novel by Russell Banks

The thirteenth tale: a novel by Diane Setterfield

Non Fiction

Behind the beautiful forevers by Katherine Boo

Founding gardeners [electronic resource]: the revolutionary generation, nature, and the shaping of the American nation by Andrea Wulf

Half the sky: turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain

Search inside yourself: the unexpected path to achieving success, happiness, (and World peace) by Chade-Meng Tan; illustrations by Colin Goh