50 Books to Look Forward to in 2012: The Full List

1. Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
2. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
3. The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
4. The Deadman’s Pedal by Alan Warner
5. The Red House by Mark Haddon
6. Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
7. Gold by Chris Cleave
8. In One Person by John Irving
9. Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
10. The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler
11. New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm Toibin
12. Distrust that Particular Flavor by William Gibson
13. Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd
14. The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem
15. Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace by Kate Summerscale
16. Between Parentheses by Roberto Bolano
17. Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen
18. How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
19. Land’s Edge by Tim Winton
20. Suddenly a Knock at the Door by Etgar Keret
21. What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
22. This isn’t the sort of thing… by Jon McGregor
23. Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
24. Freaks by Caroline Smailes, Nik Perring & Darren Craske
25. Are You My Mother by Alison Bechdel
26. Dotter of her Father’s Eyes by Mary / Bryan Talbot
27. Journalism by Joe Sacco
28. Please God Find Me a Husband by Simone Lia
29. Jerusalem by Guy Delisle
30. In the Orchard the Swallows by Peter Hobbs
31. All is Song by Samantha Harvey
32. The Revelations by Alex Preston
33. Wildwood by Colin Meloy
34. The Doll Princess by Tom Benn
35. You Came Back by Christopher Coake
36. Everything’s Fine by Socrates Adams
37. Opposed Positions by Gwendoline Riley
38. This is Life by Dan Rhodes
39. Dark Lies the City by Kevin Barry
40. The Chemickal Marriage by GW Dahlquist
41. Canada by Richard Ford
42. Weirdo by Cathi Unsworth
43. Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
44. Various Pets Dead & Alive by Marina Lewycka
45. Capital by John Lanchester
46. Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
47. Skios by Michael Frayn
48. The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
49. Silver by Andrew Motion
50. Dare Me by Megan Abbott