***Note - in order to qualify for this list the books must have been read by me in 2012 and have a publication date of 2012. Other novels may have been great, but I just didn't read them in time to make this list.***



The Healing Heart book review blog's best fiction titles for 2012! (Of the 105+ books I've read and reviewed in 2012, these were the best titles! They are listed in no particular order.)

The Unlikely Wife by Debra Ullrick (Love Inspired Historical)


Coming Home by Stacy Hawkins Adams (Zondervan)


Walks Alone by Sandi Rog (Whitefire)


The Jerk Magnet by Melody Carlson (Revell)


Into the Free by Julie Cantrell (David C Cook)


Saving Hope by Margaret Daley (Abingdon)


Love's Sacred Song by Mesu Andrews (Revell)


A Sweethaven Summer by Courtney Walsh (Guideposts)


Shakespeare's Lady by Alexa Schnee (Guideposts)


Shattered Identity by K. Dawn Byrd (Desert Breeze Publishing)


Prize of My Heart by Lisa Norato (Bethany House)


Baroness by Susan May Warren (Summerside)


Crazy Dangerous by Andrew Klaven (Thomas Nelson)


Wish You Were Here by Beth K. Vogt (Howard)


The Widow of Saunders Creek by Tracey Bateman (Waterbrook Press)


The Kingmaker's Daughter by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone)


Wind Over Marshdale by Tracy Krauss (Astrea Press)


Flame of Resistance by Tracy Groot (Tyndale)


Love's Reckoning by Laura Frantz (Revell)


Submerged by Dani Pettrey (Bethany House)


Borders of the Heart by Chris Fabry (Tyndale)


A Love Surrendered by Julie Lessman (Revell)


A Promise to Love by Serena B. Miller (Revell)


The Heart's Frontier by Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith (Harvest House)


Double Identity by K. Dawn Byrd (Desert Breeze Publishing)


Harvest of Rubies by Tessa Afshar(Moody/River North)


Children of the King by Gloria Clover(Desert Breeze Publishing)


The archived lists from previous years are below.