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# The Best Books of 2012
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2012/12/30/the-best-books-of-2012/
- Published: 2012-12-30T17:56:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-12-08T08:41:32.000Z
- Description: A selection of the best books I read this year, which this year includes a number of books I wish I had read years ago.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Literature, Non-Fiction

### Best Fiction

Laurent Binet: HHhH

### Best Book I Wish I Had Read Years Ago

James Joyce: [Ulysses](https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2012/04/04/james-joyce-ulysses/)  
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita  
Joe Brainard: [I Remember](https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2012/07/23/joe-brainard-i-remember/)  
Thomas Bernhard: Holzfällen

### Best Non-Fiction

Katherine Boo: Behind the Beautiful Forevers  
Charles C. Mann: 1491\. New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus  
Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Emperor of All Maladies

### Best Graphic Novel

Chris Ware: Building Stories

### Best Book About the Petroleum Industry

Daniel Yergin: [The Prize. The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power](https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2012/04/22/daniel-yergin-the-prize-the-epic-quest-for-oil-money-and-power/)

### Most Disappointing

Graham Greene: The Quiet American