Readers' Choice: Best Books of 2012

We were on to something when we named Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl the 2012 Breakout Book of the Year. With more than 3,000 votes cast in our annual Readers' Choice survey, one thing is clear: Gone Girl was far and away the #1 book of the year.

The other reader favorites range from debut historical fiction to suspense, from memoirs to a certain erotic romance novel that has blown up this year's bestseller charts. As the list below shows, there is no one kind of BookPage reader, and your tastes are varied and wide-ranging.

1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

2. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

3. Defending Jacob by William Landay

4. Wild by Cheryl Strayed

5. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

6. Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

7. The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

8. Winter of the World by Ken Follett

9. The Twelve by Justin Cronin

10. The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

11. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

12. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel