I spread out the favorites of 2012 posts over nearly two weeks. If you are interested here is the complete list in a single post. I am going to split them into fiction and non-fiction lists and put them in order with most favorite at the top. I read 180 book this year these are the top 13.
Non-Fiction
Triumph of Christianity by Rodney Stark (Christian History)
Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurches People Love to Attend by Andy Stanley (Church)
The Civil War as Theological Crisis by Mark Noll (Christian History, Hermeneutics, Culture)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945: Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance by Ferdinand Schlingensiepen (Biography)
The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy and Kathy Keller (Marriage)
Embracing Obscurity: Becoming Nothing in Light of God’s Everything (Discipleship)
The Doctrine of the Trinity in the Early Church by Franz Dünzl (Christian History, Theology)
Fiction
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (Literary Fiction)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Science Fiction)
Thin Blue Smoke by Doug Worgul (Literary Fiction)
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (Young Adult)
Agent to the Starts by John Scalzi (Comic Science Fiction)
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (20th Century Classic)