Books Read: 2012

January

• Radio Shangri-La, Lisa Napoli
• Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (audio book)
• The Memory of Love, Aminatta Forna
• The Stranger, Albert Camus
• Rooftops of Tehran, Mahbod Seraji
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
• A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
• Wherever Grace Is Needed, Elizabeth Bass
• Take the Cannoli, Sarah Vowell
• Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
• Macbeth: A Novel (audio book), A.J. Hartley and David Hewson

February

• The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
• In Cold Blood, Truman Capote (audio book)
• Wild Thing, Josh Bazell (audio book)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
• Rez Life, David Treuer
• Persuasion, Jane Austen
• Come In and Cover Me, Gin Phillips

March

• Saturday, Ian McEwan
• Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell (audio book)
• Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
• Arcadia, Lauren Groff
• The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
• The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
• The Fault in Our Stars, John Green

April

• How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, Mike Brown (audio book)
• Paris In Love, Eloisa James
• The Wave, Susan Casey
• Le Road Trip, Vivian Swift
• Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones
• The Garden of Happy Endings, Barbara O’Neal
• On an Irish Island, Robert Kanigel
• The Gilly Salt Sisters, Tiffany Baker

May

• Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
• Dragonfly in Amber, Diana Gabaldon
• Catch-22, Joseph Heller
• Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon

June

• Bitterblue, Kristin Cashore
• The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Margot Livesey
• Girlchild, Tupelo Hassman
• The Stand, Stephen King (see also, this and this)
• Wild, Cheryl Strayed
• A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty, Joshilyn Jackson
• When Wanderers Cease to Roam, Vivian Swift

July

• Heading Out to Wonderful, Robert Goolrick
• Daughter of Blood, Anne Bishop
• Heir of Shadows, Anne Bishop
• Queen of Darkness, Anne Bishop
• Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
• Cry Wolf, Patricia Briggs (Alpha and Omega #1)
• Hunting Ground, Patricia Briggs (Alpha and Omega #2)
• Fair Game, Patricia Briggs (Alpha and Omega #3)
• Shadow of Night, Deborah Harkness
• Bitten, Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld #1)
• Stolen, Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld #2)
• Broken, Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld #6)
• Frostbitten, Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld #10)

August

• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce
• Tell the Wolves I’m Home, Carol Rifka Brunt
• North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell (week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4)

September

• To Timbuktu, Casey Scieszka and Stephen Weinberg
• Half World, Hiromi Goto
• Fingerprints of You, Kristen-Paige Madonia
• Amglish, Arthur Rowse
• A Sense of Direction, Gideon Lewis-Kraus
• IT, Stephen King
• American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
• Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
• Red Dragon, Thomas Harris
• The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson

October

• 11/22/63, Stephen King (audio book)
• The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan
• The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (audio book)
• Canada, Richard Ford
• The Twelve, Justin Cronin
• Judging a Book by Its Lover, Lauren Leto

November

• Under the Dome, Stephen King (audio book)

December

• Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor
• Days of Blood and Starlight, Laini Taylor
• I Hunt Killers, Barry Lyga
• Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
• The Shortest Way Home, Juliette Fay
• City of Bones, Cassandra Clare
• City of Ashes, Cassandra Clare
• City of Glass, Cassandra Clare
• City of Fallen Angels, Cassandra Clare
• The Lighthouse Road, Peter Geye
• The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas