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title: "Audible.com Best Books of 2012 List"
description: "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..."
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date: 2012-12-03
modified: 2012-12-03
author: "Adam Shields"
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lang: en
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# Audible.com Best Books of 2012 List

[![Audible.com Best Books of 2012](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ADBLCRE_1475_BestOf2012_LP_2._V398823601_.jpg)](http://www.qksrv.net/click-6127830-10273919?url=http://www.audible.com/int/Best_of_2012DEC/?source_code=AUDOR94NAEM112912&bp_ua=yes&source_code=COMA0213WS031709)

Audible.com published their [best books of 2012 list](http://www.qksrv.net/click-6127830-10273919?url=http://www.audible.com/int/Best_of_2012DEC/?source_code=AUDOR94NAEM112912&bp_ua=yes&source_code=COMA0213WS031709) 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

![Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/61QIpLSFAHL._SL175_.jpg)[Beautiful Ruins](http://www.qksrv.net/click-6127830-10273919?url=http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B00884I4XA&source_code=COMA0213WS031709)

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.