"EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE" by Jonathan Safran Foer 4
"THE BEIJING OF POSSIBILITIES by Jonathan Let 4.5
"JERUSALEM MAIDEN" by Talia Carner 4
"THE PAINTER FROM SHANGHAI" by Jennifer Epstein 4.5
"THE IRRESISTIBLE HENRI HOUSE" by Lisa Grunwald 4
"THE FORGOTTEN WALTZ" by Anne Enright 4
"THE MASTER ORPHAN'S SON by Adam Johnson 5 out of 5 ( favorite novel of January 2012 )
February
"NOTHING TO ENVY" by Barbara Demick 5
"THE COMPANY WE KEEP" by Robert Baer and Dayna Baer 5
"THE UGLIEST WOMAN ALIVE" short story by Olga Tokarczuk 5 (Best European Fiction 2011)
"THE ART OF HEARING HARTBEATS" by Jan_Philipp Sendker 5