As in the best books I have read in 2012.
Fiction
- A. S. Byatt, The Children’s Book
- Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
- Jo Nesbø, Phantom
- Robert Schneider, Schlafes Bruder
- Patrick Süskind, Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders
- Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years
Poetry
- Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
- Anne Carson, Nox
- Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Non-Fiction
- David G. Benner, Spirituality and the Awakening Self: The Sacred Journey of Transformation
- Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
- Sam Keen, The Passionate Life: Stages of Loving
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love
- Alexander Kissler and Carsten S. Leimbach, Alles über Patrick Süskinds Das Parfum
- Michael Mayne, A Year Lost and Found
- James B. Nelson, Embodiment: An Approach to Sexuality and Christian Theology
- John O’Donohue, Anam Cara
- John O’Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
- Octavio Paz, The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
- Sandra M. Schneiders, The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture
- Rowan Williams, Silence and Honey Cakes: The Wisdom of the Desert
- Walter Wink, Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way
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