published in 2012	not published in 2012
novels	Threats Amelia Gray	The Growth of the Soil Knut Hamsun
short novels	The Testament of Mary Colm Toibin	Train Dreams Denis Johnson
blasphemies	The Testament of Mary Colm Toibin	The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie
poems	Night of the Grizzly Michael Burns	The Mad Farmer Poems Wendell Berry
short poems		If I Falter at the Gallows Edward Mullany
wiz lit		The Book of Hours Rainer Maria Rilke
short stories		I Go to Some Hollow Amina Cain
text messages		Natural Histories Jules Renard
emails		For the Time Being Annie Dillard
phone calls		Great Plains Ian Frazier
essays	When I was a Child I Read Books Marilynne Robinson
interviews		Confronting Empire Eqbal Ahmad & David Barsamian
comix
picture books	The Eyes of the Cat Moebius & Alejandro Jodorowsky	November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three Wendell Berry & Ben Shahn
non-fiction comix	Journalism Joe Sacco
normal non-fiction		How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror Reza Aslan
christian non-fiction	Reborn on the Fourth of July: The Challenge of Faith, Patriotism, and Conscience Logan Mehl-Laituri	The Pursuit of God A.W. Tozer
bible fan fic	The Testament of Mary Colm Toibin	Sermons and Homilies of the Christ of Elqui Nicanor Parra
cookbooks	The Homemade Pantry Alana Chernila
fantasy
sci fi