Audible.com published their best books of 2012 list recently. I am doing better on Audible’s list. I have have read 6 of the mentioned books. But there are a lot of books, 14 categories with 4 books in most categories and then six editors all got to pick their own four books. The book of the year is
The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. So begins a tale that is gloriously inventive and constantly surprising – a story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.