I can't go to Book Expo America today , so I'm hanging with Armchair BEA and sharing a "Best of 2012" list. These are 10 of my favorite book covers from titles coming out in the 2nd half of 2012.

10 Gorgeous Book Covers of 2012 {On My Reading List - The July to December Edition}

Thirteen (Women of the Otherworld #13), Kelley Armstrong. July 26, 2012. The UK cover is the one I like - not the American one, which I don't care for.
A war is brewing - the first battle has been waged and Savannah Levine is left standing, albeit battered and bruised. She has rescued her half brother from supernatural medical testing, but he's fighting to stay alive. Thirteen is a grand, crowd-pleasing closer for Armstrong's legions of fans. (Amazon| Goodreads)

Three Strong Women by Marie Ndiaye. August 7, 2012.
This is the story of three women who say no: Norah, a French-born lawyer who finds herself in Senegal, summoned by her estranged, tyrannical father to save another victim of his paternity; Fanta, who leaves a modest but contented life as a teacher in Dakar to follow her white boyfriend back to France, where his delusional depression and sense of failure poison everything; and Khady, a penniless widow put out by her husband's family with nothing but the name of a distant cousin (the aforementioned Fanta) who lives in France, a place Khady can scarcely conceive of but toward which she must now take desperate flight. (Amazon| Goodreads)

Touched by Cyn Balog. Aug 14, 2012.
Nick Cross always listens to the voice in his head. Because if he doesn't? Things can go really, really wrong. Like the day he decided to go off script and saved a girl from being run over ... and let another one drown. Trying to change the future doesn't work. But this summer at the Jersey Shore, something's about to happen that Nick never could have predicted. He meets a girl named Taryn and finds out about the Book of Touch. Now the path that he thought he was on begins to shift ... and there's no way to stop things from happening. Or is there? (Amazon| Goodreads)

The Caller by Karin Fossum. Aug 14, 2012.
One mild summer evening, a young couple are enjoying dinner while their daughter sleeps peacefully in her stroller under a tree. When her mother steps outside she is stunned: The child is covered in blood. Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to meet the family. Mercifully, the child is unharmed, but the parents are deeply shaken, and Sejer spends the evening trying to understand why anyone would carry out such a sinister prank. (Amazon.com| Goodreads)

The Infects by Sean Beaudoin. September 25th 2012
Seventeen-year-old Nero is stuck in the wilderness with a bunch of other juvenile delinquents on an "Inward Trek." As if that weren't bad enough, his counselors have turned into flesh-eating maniacs overnight and are now chowing down on his fellow miscreants. (Amazon| Amazon| Goodreads)

Eve and Adam, Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant. October 2nd 2012.
In the beginning, there was an apple ... and then there was a car crash, a horrible injury, and a hospital. There, under the best care available, Eve is left alone to heal. Just when Eve thinks she will die - not from her injuries, but from boredom - her mother gives her a special project: Create the perfect boy. Using an amazingly detailed simulation, Eve starts building a boy from the ground up. Eve is creating Adam. And he will be just perfect ... won't he? (Amazon| Goodreads)

Breathe by Sarah Crossan. October 2nd 2012.
Inhale. Exhale. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. The world is dead. The survivors live under the protection of Breathe, the corporation that found a way to manufacture oxygen-rich air. (Amazon| Goodreads)

On The Day I Died, Candace Flemming. July 10, 2012.
10 ghost stories sure to send chills up your spine. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860's to the present, and ends with the narrator's death. (Amazon| Goodreads)

Crewel by Gennifer Albin. October 16th 2012. Gifted with the ability to weave time with matter, she's exactly what the Guild is looking for, and in the world of Arras, being chosen as a Spinster is everything a girl could want. It means privilege, eternal beauty, and being something other than a secretary. It also means the power to embroider the very fabric of life. But if controlling what people eat, where they live and how many children they have is the price of having it all, Adelice isn't interested. (Amazon| Goodreads)

Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce. July 10, 2012.
It is Christmas afternoon and Peter Martin gets an unexpected phonecall from his parents, asking him to come round. It pulls him away from his wife and children and into a bewildering mystery. He arrives at his parents house and discovers that they have a visitor. His sister Tara. Not so unusual you might think, this is Christmas after all, a time when families get together. But twenty years ago Tara took a walk into the woods and never came back and as the years have gone by with no word from her the family have, unspoken, assumed that she was dead. Now she's back, tired, dirty, dishevelled, but happy and full of stories about twenty years spent travelling the world, an epic odyssey taken on a whim. (Amazon| Goodreads)