The topics for today are Favorite Books of 2012 and Giveaways. I have both.
Best Books I’ve Read in 2012
Besides The Saffron Kitchen
The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great
This is the story of the arrival in Russia and rise to power of Catherine the Great as seen by one of her mother-in-law’s spies at court. This is the beginning of a series.
The Baker’s Daughter
The story of the Holocaust is told from the German point of view by a girl who was a teenager working in her father’s bakery. Fifty years later she runs a German bakery in Texas and is looking back at the war years and the decisions that her family and neighbors made.
Giveaway
Leave a comment on this post to be eligible for a $10 Amazon (or Barnes and Noble if you prefer) gift card. Open to everyone.
I’m going to have to check out The Baker’s Daughter. I love books set during WWII and ones from different points of view. Have you read Skeletons at the Feast? That one was good.
Girl Who Reads
Thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for the generous giveaway!
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The one about Catherine the Great and Russia sounds interesting, because I’ve always been curious about that period.
Thanks for the great giveaway! I’ve heard several people say good things about Baker’s Daughter.
Thanks for the awesome giveaway! Everyone is making my first year of Armchair BEA so fantastic 😀
Thanks for the giveaway!
I love reading all of these lists! Your books sound great 🙂
I haven’t read either book. Thanks so much.
The Baker’s Daughter is on my radar. Sounds great.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Both books sound good to me, since I love historical fiction.
(not entering giveaway. just stoppin by to say hi!)
I’m very intrigued by The Winter Palace. Thanks for putting it on radar.
(thanks for the visit, btw! ^_^)
I’ve got Winter Palace on my shelf to read — it looks so good, and that cover – gorgeous! 🙂 The Baker’s Daughter sounds like it’d tweak your heart, but it must be a good story to make such a short list of greats 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to win! An Amazon.com gift card would be absolutely perfect. 🙂
What a great giveaway! The Winter’s Palace sounds great; thanks for alerting me to it! 🙂
Both of these sound like they need to be on my wish list. I love historical fiction!
The Winter Palace and The Baker’s Daughter both sound like fabulous reads. I’ll have to check them out!
I haven’t read either of the books you’ve listed so I’ll be checking them both out!
Thanks so much for this giveaway!!
Carrie
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Thanks so much for the giveaway! Happy ArmchairBEA 🙂
Great picks! I haven’t read either of these yet, but they’re on my TBR list. Thanks for the giveaway!
These books sound awesome! thanks for making the giveaway!
Good choices! I have a giveaway going today as well, hope you stop by to enter!
Thank you so much for this giveaway opportunity! Fingers crossed 🙂
These books sound good! Hope to win!
I have not heard of these books, but I’m going to go investigate them more. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I haven’t heard of any of these, so it looks like I’m off to Goodreads to do a little search.
Thanks for hosting a giveaway, count me in please! *fingers crossed*
I hope you have a great BEA-filled week!
~Christina (and the other Book Hookup Litbrarians)
The Book Hookup’s Best of 2012
Thanks for the giveaway!
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Thanks for the giveaway!
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I don’t know these books. I love that we learn about new books during Armchair BEA.
Thanks for participating!
Here’s my crem della crem list
Valerie
StuckInBooks
Thanks for the giveaway
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The Baker’s Daughter is a great book! I’d love to win a B&N giftcard. Thanks!
Great picks, I’ve heard a lot of great things about The Baker’s Daughter. Sad, but good sounding. Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
Both of those books look great! Thanks for the wonderful chance to win a GC too! 🙂
The Winter Palace looks beautiful and really interesting. I don’t know anything about that time in history and love reading novelised (and somewhat fictionalized) accounts of history.
Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
The Baker’s Daughter seems really interesting. I find Holocaust books so intriguing. Great picks!
I haven’t read those two books yet but they sound like fascinating reads. I really like the title of The Winter Palace. Court intrigue!
Thanks so much for this giveaway!!!
I don’t know the books you recommended but I think I might have to check them out more. 🙂
Great picks! I bought The Winter Palace a few months ago, but haven’t had the chance to dig in yet … and The Baker’s Daughter is on my wishlist!
Thanks for the giveaway. 🙂
Kristilyn
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The first book recommended that has really caught my interest is THE BAKER’S DAUGHTER! Consider your blog bookmarked!
I have The Winter Palace on my Nook just waiting to be read!
I would love to enter your giveaway…thanks for having it.
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I’ve read both of these books and enjoyed them both, although Winter Palace was my favourite of the two.
Your list looks great!
Oohhh The Winter Palace looks really great! I like reading about Russia.
Happy ABEA!
The Winter Palace has been on my to-read list FOREVER! Have you read Philippa Gregory’s work? How does this compare?
Ooh! I am going to add these in my TBR list. 🙂
Thanks for visiting me today. Your cats are adorable! Historical Fic. is wonderful.
Those sound like fabulous books. I’m a World History teacher & love Russian history. It’s like the Wild, Wild West of Eurasia. Catherine the Great is a very interesting character. I absolutely love visiting the TX Hill Country. It is one of my favorite places. It speaks to my soul. And of course, German bakeries are always on the top of our MUST stop list.
Thanks for the giveaway opportunity & thanks for sharing.
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Thank you for making it open to all. Much appreciated. Please count me in.