2012 Books Read

January

The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Once Dead, Twice Shy by Kim Harrison
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Shatter by Michael Robotham
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Ragnarok by A.S. Byatt

February

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
First You Try Everything by Jane McCafferty
Preludes and Nocturnes: The Sandman Volume One by Neil Gaiman
The Thorn and the Blossom by Theodora Goss
Soulless by Gail Carriger
Emma by Jane Austen (Volume I) (Volume II)(Volume III)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

March

The Expats by Chris Pavone
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
We the Animals by Justin Torres
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

April

Divergent by Veronica Roth
Slide by Jill Hathaway
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

May

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The Creation of Eve by Lynn Cullen
An Uncommon Education by Elizabeth Percer

June

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Brand New Human Being by Emily Jeanne Miller
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

July

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Spooky Little Girl by Laurie Notaro
Shadow Show edited by Sam Weller and Mort Castle
The Sherlockian by Graham Moore

August

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Week One)(Week Two)(Week Three)(Week Four – FINALE!)
And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

September

A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

October

Arcadia by Lauren Groff
The Candidate by Paul Harris
The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

November

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Cinder by Marissa Meyer

December

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
In the Woods by Tana French
The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
Jane Austen: A Life by Carol Shields
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
House Rules by Jodi Picoult