2012 Books Read

January
1. Wine to Water: A Bartender’s Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World by Doc Hendley
2. The Slap by Chris Tsiolkas
3. Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
4. A Long Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan
5. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
6. Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
7. Outside the Lines by Amy Hatvany
8. The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
9. Legend by Marie Lu
10. MWF Seeking BFF by Rachel Bertsche
11. Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close
12. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
13. Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein
14. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
15. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

February
16. The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn
17. The Underside of Joy by Sere Prince Halverson
18. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
19, This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman
20. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
21. Pieces of Us by Margie Gelbwasser
22. Falling Together by Marisa de los Santos
23. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
24. A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheers

March
25. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
26. How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
27. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
28. Come In and Cover Me by Gin Phillips
29. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
30. The Replacement Wife by Eileen Goudge
31. Irises by Francisco X. Stork
32. Emerald City by Alicia K. Leppert
33. A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard

April 
34. The Iguana Tree by Michel Stone
35. The Art of Saying Goodbye by Ellyn Bache
36. Delirium by Lauren Oliver
37. Make it Stay by Joan Frank
38. Time of My Life by Allison Winn Scotch
39. The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns
40. The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White
41. Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
42. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
43. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida

May
44. Like the Red Panda by Andrea Siegel
45. True Sisters by Sandra Dallas
46. Pure by Julianna Baggott
47. Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson
48. The Odds by Stuart O’Nan
49. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
50. Triangles by Ellen Hopkins
51. The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
52. The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel
53. The End of Everything by Megan Abbott

June
54. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
55. Pilgrims by Elizabeth Gilbert
56. Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs
57. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
58. Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
59. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
60. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

July
61. The Color of Tea by Hannah Tunnicliffe
62. The First Husband by Laura Dave
63. The Secret Lives of Wives by Iris Krasnow
64. Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch
65. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
66. Sea Change by Karen White
67. The Good Father by Diane Chamberlain
68. What Happened to My Sister by Elizabeth Flock
69. Skinnydipping by Bethenny Frankel
70. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harknes

August
71. The Gods of Gotham by Lindsay Faye
72. The Chaperone by Laura Morairty
73. The Singles by Meredith Goldstein
74. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
75. The Taker by Alma Katsu
76. And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman
77. Seriously … I’m Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres
78. Where We Belong by Emily Giffin
79. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
80. Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

September
81. Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
82. Mac & Cheese, Please! 50 Super Cheesy Recipes by Laura Werlin
83. Saving Ruth by Zoe Fishman
84. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
85. Fast Living: How the Church Will End Extreme Poverty by Scott C. Todd, PhD
86. The Whipping Club by Deborah Henry
87. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
88. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
89. Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry
90. Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant
91. The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner

October
92. Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
93. Fathomless by Jackson Pearce
94. Surprised by Oxford by Carolyn Weber
95. Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society by Amy Hill Hearth
96. Love Anthony by Lisa Genova

November
97. The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
98. The Reckoning by Alma Katsu
99. Ghost Story by Peter Straub
100. Field to Feast: Recipes Celebrating Florida Farmers, Chefs, and Artisans by Pam Brandon, Katie Farmand, & Heather McPherson
101. Man in the Blue Moon by Michael Morris
102. The Book Lover by Maryanne McFadden
103. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
104. Broken Harbor by Tana French
105. The Lost Art of Mixing by Erica Bauermeister
106. Red Rain by R.L. Stine
107. Astray by Emma Donoghue
108. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
109. Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey

December
110. Second Nature by Jacquelyn Mitchard
111. The Clean Plates Cookbook by Jared Koch
112. Outside Wonderland by Lorna Jane Cook
113. All These Things I’ve Done by Gabrielle Zevin
114. Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin
115. Spell Bound by Rachel Hawkins
116. The Uninvited by Liz Jensen
117. Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson
118. Y: A Novel by Marjorie Celona
119. A History of the Present Illness by Louise Aronson
120. The Dinner by Herman Koch
121. The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
122. Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman