SATURDAY December 29th, will be a special edition of the Saturday Review of Books especially for booklists. You can link to a list of your favorite books read in 2012, a list of all the books you read in 2012, a list of the books you plan to read in 2013, or any other end of the year or beginning of the year list of books. Whatever your list, it’s time for book lists. So come back on Saturday the 29th to link to yours, especially if I missed it and it’s not already here.

However, I’ve spent the past couple of weeks gathering up all the lists I could find and linking to them here. I’ll be posting each day this week, leading up to Saturday the 29th, a selection of end-of-the-year lists with my own comments. I’m also trying my hand at (unsolicited) book advisory by suggesting some possibilities for 2013 reading for each blogger whose list I link. I did this last year, and I don’t really know if anyone paid attention or not. I do know that I enjoyed exercising my book-recommending brain.

If I didn’t get your list linked ahead of time and if you leave your list in the linky on Saturday, December 29th, I’ll try to advise you, too, in a separate post.

Book Chase: The Best Books of 2012. For Sam again just like last year, my picks are River of Doubt by Candice Millard and Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. And I want to read several of his favorites from 2012, including Holy Ghost Girl, Wild, The End of Your Life Book Club, The Solitary House, and Malena.

Sandy at You’ve Gotta Read This! divides her list into three parts: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Audio. I can’t recommend audiobooks because I don’t have a very good auditory attention span unless I’m trapped in a car. But for reading, I’ll suggest one fiction and one nonfiction: One Amazing Thing by Chitra Divakaruni and For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago by Simon Baatz.

Chrisbookarama: A Bookish Look Back at 2012.Chris read Les Miserables in 2012, and it seems to have been a favorite and also a monumental task. (I’m re-reading Les Miz now, and it is more of a task than I remember, but very rewarding.) Chris said last December that she hasn’t read any P.D. James. James’ mysteries would be a welcome contrast to Les Miserables, and Chris should try one, perhaps starting with the first one Cover her Face. For a Daphne Du Maurier fan, Anna’s Book by Barbara Vine might be a good fit.

Bookhooked Blog has several lists also: Best Fantasy and Speculative Fiction, Best Audiobooks, Best Adult Nonfiction, Best Adult Fiction, Best Faith-Related Literature. Julie makes me want to read almost every book on her multiple lists, and it easy to give her a couple of recommendations based on her choices: Walking from East to West by Ravi Zacharias and Have You Found Her by Janice Erlbaum, a memoir about a mentally ill teenager and the volunteer who tries to help her become stable and healthy.

Amanda at Dead White Guys, Etc. has a list of the finalists for the Morning News Tournament of Books, and she says she’s going to read every book on the list except the ONE I’ve already read (John Green’s The Fault in our Stars). Oh, well, looking at the list there’s at least one I would skip myself if I were going to read them all, Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel. I tried Wolf Hall, and I hated it. Amanda’s going to be busy, so I won’t suggest any more reading for her. But I’ve heard really good things about at least one of the books on the list, HHhH by Laurent Binet.

The Book Lady’s 10 Best Books of 2012. Rebecca Schinsky reads “literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, and some memoirs.” At the risk of aggravating Amanda (see above), but since Rebecca says she only read one YA novel this past year, I’ll suggest two YA novels from 2012: The Fault in our Stars by John Green and the one I just finished, Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow.

Justin Buzzard: Best Books of 2012. Mr. BUzzard is a pastor and an author, and his reading reflects those callings. I wonder, has he read A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins, an old favorite of mine, and Culture Making by Andy Crouch, a new favorite?

Readerbuzz: Best of 2012. Deb Nance, as one commenter said, reads a lot of books. And she reminisces about a lot of good reading from 2012. For Deb I suggest two books from my Cybils reading of Middle Grade Science Fiction and Fantasy: Deadly Pink by Vivian Vande Velde and The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde.

YA Librarian Tales: Sarah’s Favorite Books of 2012. For Sarah I’ll suggest The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman and Where I Belong by Gillian Cross.

Mental Multivitamin: Books Read in 2012. Madame MM-V, my blogging twin since we began blogging about the same time about nine years ago, read 136 works of literature in 2012. I’ll try to pick something that Ms. MM-V hasn’t already read, thought about and learned from to commend to her: perhaps a play, Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello, for fiction, The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, and for nonfiction, The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang and something by or about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, either his Cost of Discipleship or Eric Metaxis’ biography of Bonhoeffer.

That’s all for today. Come back tomorrow and the rest of the week for more links to book lists and more reader’s advisory from Semicolon.

SATURDAY December 29th, will be a special edition of the Saturday Review of Books especially for booklists. You can link to a list of your favorite books read in 2012, a list of all the books you read in 2012, a list of the books you plan to read in 2013, or any other end of the year or beginning of the year list of books. Whatever your list, it’s time for book lists. So come back on Saturday the 29th to link to yours, especially if I missed it and it’s not already here.

However, I’ve spent the past couple of weeks gathering up all the lists I could find and linking to them here. I’ll be posting each day this week and next, leading up to Saturday the 29th, a selection of end-of-the-year lists with my own comments. I’m also trying my hand at (unsolicited) book advisory by suggesting some possibilities for 2013 reading for each blogger whose list I link. I did this last year, and I don’t really know if anyone paid attention or not. I do know that I enjoyed exercising my book-recommending brain.

If I didn’t get your list linked ahead of time and if you leave your list in the linky on Saturday, December 29th, I’ll try to advise you, too, in a separate post.

Parchment and Pen Blog: Sam Storms’ Best Books of 2012. Mr. Storms is a pastor, and his list consists of mostly nonfiction in the areas of theology, Christian living, and biography and memoir. Mr. Storms might like to choose a books or two from this list that I made earlier this year, History and Heroes: 55 Recommended Books of Biography, Autobiography, Memoir,and History.

12 Books to Read in 2013. Mr. R.J. Moeller suggests 12 of his favorite books, mostly classics, for your reading enjoyment in 2013. I’m with him one almost all of his suggestions from Dostoyevsky to Moby Dick, with the exception of Ayn Rand. I would suggest that if he hasn’t already read it, he would like Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, a chunky classic like Moby Dick well worth the time and energy it absorbs in the reading.

Book Addiction: Faves from 2012, Nonfiction. Audiobooks. Adult fiction. YA Fiction. Heather should try out Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (YA) and The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon.

CarrieK at Books and Movies does multiple end-of-the-year lists, too: Favorite crime fiction of 2012, Favorite contemporary fiction of 2012, Favorite historical fiction of 2012, Favorite Speculative Fiction of 2012, Favorite Audiobooks of 2012. I’m cheating on Carrie’s recommendations, voting and recommending at the same time in conjunction with her “I’ve Always Meant to Read the Book” Challenge. I’ll just say that I intend to read Bleak House this year, and 1984 by George Orwell and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro are both must-reads that I have enjoyed in the past. Well, 1984 is not so much enjoyable as thought-provoking and enlightening, but anyway, read both.

Tweendom’s Top Twelve of Twenty Twelve. Stacy Dillon, who has her own Tweendom, says it has been a phenomenal year for books. I’m going to suggest that she check out a couple of other books from 2012 that I read for my Cybils judging responsibilities: Iron Hearted Violet by Kelly Barnhill and Seven Tales of Trinket by Shelley Moore Thomas are both stellar entries in the middle grade fantasy genre.

The other Carrie at Reading to Know has a list of Favorite Books Read in 2012. She also reminds me that I still need to read Bleak House. Last year I suggested for Carrie, Between Heaven and Hell by Peter Kreeft because I know she’s a C.S. Lewis fan. It’s an imaginary dialog between John F. Kennedy, Aldous Huxley, and Lewis, three famous men with very differing philosophies of life who died on the same day. I also think Carrie would like My Hands Came Away Red by Lisa McKay, a book I very much appreciated when I read it in 2010. I still think she would enjoy those two, plus I’ll give her another tip: Edith Schaeffer’s The Hidden Art of Homemaking.

Devourer of Books lists 26 favorites out of 187 books reviewed in 2012. I’ve not read a single one of her favorites, which gives me a lot of recommendations to peruse but not much information to go on for reader’s advisory. I’m going to suggest a biography I enjoyed this year, Catherine the Great by Robert Massie and for fiction the wonderful Christy by Catherine Marshall.

Ben Myers at Faith and Theology: Best Books of 2012. Mr. Myers says he’s spent most of the year reading Augustine and Shakespeare; I wonder if he’s read A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro? If not, he might enjoy the insights there. Also, fyi, my favorite Shakepeare play is As You Like It or maybe Much Ado About Nothing.

The Ink Slinger’s 2012 Year in Review: Nonfiction. Fiction. Oh, this young man has some good reading choices on his list: Dostoyevsky, Marilynne Robinson, George Orwell and several others. I would suggest that now that he’s read Crime and Punishment, he should also read The Brothers Karamazov. I also think he’d want to read the companion/sequel to Gilead, Home by Marilynne Robinson. For nonfiction, perhaps The Ink Slinger would like a book I just finished, Gray Matter by David Levy and Joel Kilpatrick.

Books in the City: Top Ten Books of 2012. Colleen reads her books in New York City, and I haven’t read any of her favorites from this year, although I did enjoy an almost-ran, Little Bee by Chris Cleave. Since Colleen likes books set in Ireland, I commend to her Stephen Lawhead’s Patrick, Son of Ireland and How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill.

That’s ten (or more) lists for today. Come back tomorrow for more, and don’t forget to to add your year-end booklist to the Saturday Review of Books on December 29th.