Best of Media 2012, Part II

There was a lot of worthwhile media released in 2012. Here are some I enjoyed the most (continued from Part I).

Best Music

• The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do-Fiona Apple
• Wrecking Ball-Bruce Springsteen
• Babel-Mumford & Sons
• Away From the World (deluxe edition)-Dave Matthews Band
• Little Broken Hearts-Norah Jones
• The Lumineers-The Lumineers
• ¡UNO!-Green Day
• Girl on Fire-Alicia Keys
• Spirit Indestructible-Nelly Furtado
• Graceland Box Set – Paul Simon (still remember listening to this amazing album for the first time while riding with my Uncle Jim and his family to camping in Michigan)

Best Books

• How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character-Paul Tough
• The Fault in Our Stars-John Green
• Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness-Scott Jurek and Steve Friedman
• How Music Works-David Byrne
• Darth Vader and Son-Jeffrey Brown
• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't-Nate Silver  
• No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden-Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer
• What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite-David DiSalvo
• That's My Girl: How a Father's Love Protects and Empowers His Daughter-Rick Johnson
• What Your Childhood Memories Say about You . . . and What You Can Do about It-Kevin Leman