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Books Read in 2012

Archives

  1. The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond
  2. Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
  3. The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern
  4. The Journal of Best Practices by David Finch
  5. Smut by Alan Bennett
  6. Nice Girls Don’t Date Dead Men by Molly Harper
  7. The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau
  8. Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
  9. Carrier of the Mark by Leigh Fallon
  10. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
  11. The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
  12. The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton
  13. Obedience by Jacqueline Yallop
  14. Nice Girls Don’t Live Forever by Molly Harper
  15. Bending the Boyne by J. S. Dunn
  16. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  17. Spin by Catherine McKenzie
  18. Lunatics by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel
  19. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
  20. The Search by Nora Roberts
  21. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  22. The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice
  23. Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
  24. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  25. The Temple Mount Code by Charles Brokaw
  26. Nocturne by Syrie James
  27. The Darlings by Christina Alger
  28. My Lost Daughter by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
  29. The Healing by Jonathan Odell
  30. Chime by Franny Billingsley
  31. The Underside of Joy by Sere Prince Halverson
  32. The Good Father by Noah Hawley
  33. All That I Am by Anna Funder
  34. The Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O’Melveny
  35. The Stand by Stephen King
  36. Cold Kiss by Amy Garvey
  37. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
  38. Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwartz
  39. Nice Girls Don’t Bite Their Neighbors by Molly Harper
  40. Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini
  41. Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
  42. Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
  43. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  44. The Night Eternal by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
  45. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  46. Across the Universe by Beth Revis
  47. First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
  48. Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
  49. The Marbled Swarm by Dennis Cooper
  50. The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
  51. The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
  52. The Pursuit of Happiness by Douglas Kennedy
  53. The Good Father by Diane Chamberlain
  54. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  55. Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
  56. The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel
  57. Bright and Distant Shores by Dominic Smith
  58. Gilt by Katherine Longshore
  59. The Ghoul Next Door by Lisi Harrison
  60. These Girls by Sarah Pekkanen
  61. The Girl in the Clockwork Collar by Kady Cross
  62. The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
  63. All These Lives by Sarah Wylie
  64. The Thirteen by Susie Moloney
  65. The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda
  66. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  67. Beneath the Shadows by Sara Foster
  68. A Slave in the White House by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
  69. Where There’s A Wolf, There’s a Way by Lisi Harrison
  70. The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe
  71. My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
  72. The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
  73. Back and Deader Than Ever by Lisi Harrison
  74. Dead Beat by Jim Butcher
  75. Ninepins by Rosy Thornton
  76. Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
  77. I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern
  78. The Orphanmaster by Jean Zimmerman
  79. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
  80. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  81. The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman
  82. Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan
  83. Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher
  84. The Wishing Trees by John Shors
  85. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
  86. Playing With Matches by Carolyn Wall
  87. The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
  88. Thy Neighbor by Norah Vincent
  89. The Unseen by Katherine Webb
  90. The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D by Nichole Bernier
  91. A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer Dubois
  92. The King’s Speech by Mark Logue
  93. No Safe Haven by Kimberley and Kayla Woodhouse
  94. The Age of Desire by Jennie Fields
  95. Tempest by Julie Cross
  96. White Night by Jim Butcher
  97. Poison by Sara Poole
  98. 12.21 by Dustin Thomason
  99. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
  100. Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama
  101. The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
  102. The Selection by Kiera Cass
  103. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
  104. Psycho USA by Harold Schechter
  105. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
  106. Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
  107. Eve and Adam by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant
  108. Catherine the Great by Robert Massie
  109. The Truth of All Things by Kieran Shields
  110. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  111. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
  112. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
  113. It by Stephen King
  114. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  115. The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
  116. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
  117. The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa
  118. Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
  119. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
  120. The Purple Shroud by Stella Duffy
  121. The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen
  122. The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
  123. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  124. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
  125. Blackberry Winter by Sarah Jio
  126. The Thorn and the Blossom by Theodora Goss
  127. All You Never Wanted by Adele Griffin
  128. The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
  129. Cold Light by Jenn Ashworth
  130. Forgotten by Catherine McKenzie
  131. Small Favor by Jim Butcher
  132. Crewel by Gennifer Albin
  133. Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
  134. Changes by Jim Butcher
  135. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
  136. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
  137. A Small Town Near Auschwitz by Mary Fulbrook
  138. Side Jobs by Jim Butcher
  139. City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris
  140. Year Zero by Rob Reid
  141. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
  142. In Need of a Good Wife by Kelly O’Connor McNees
  143. The Believing Game by Eireann Corrigan
  144. Redshirts by John Scalzi
  145. Never Tell by Alafair Burke
  146. A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
  147. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  148. The Round House by Louise Erdrich
  149. City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte
  150. City of Women by David R. Gillham
  151. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
  152. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
  153. The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman
  154. Me and the Devil by Nick Tosches
  155. Vanity Fare by Megan Caldwell
  156. The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon
  157. Giving Up the Ghost by Eric Nuzum
  158. The Discovery of Jeanne Baret by Glynis Ridley
  159. Daddy Love by Joyce Carol Oates
  160. Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant
  161. Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers
  162. Bridge of Scarlet Leaves by Kristina McMorris
  163. What We Saw At Night by Jacquelyn Mitchard