Books 2012

For posterity: a list of the books I read in 2012.

1. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

2. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

3. Island of Lost Girls - Jennifer McMahon

4. Mockingbird - Kathryn Erskine

5. The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka

6. The Weird Sisters - Eleanor Brown

7. Break the Skin - Lee Martin

8. The Peach Keeper - Sarah Addison Allen

9. The Poison Tree - Erin Kelly

10. Private Life - Jane Smiley

11. Winter Sea - Susanna Kearsley

12. Ashes - Ilsa Bick

13. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

14. I Think I Love You - Allison Pearson

15. The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss (REREAD)

16. The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss

17. Maine - J. Courtney Sullivan

18. The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness

19. The Ask and the Answer - Patrick Ness

20. Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness

21. Second Nature: A Love Story - Jacquelyn Mitchard

22. The False Friend - Myla Goldberg

23. Please Look After Mom - Kyung-sook Shin

24. The Year of the Flood: Margaret Atwood

25. The Magician King - Lev Grossman

26. At Risk - Alice Hoffman

27. Swim to Me - Ann Packer

28. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua

29. Galore - Michael Crummey

30. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (REREAD)

31. My Name Is Memory - Ann Brashares

32. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood (REREAD)

33. Zone One - Colson Whitehead

34. The Space Between Us - Thrity Umrigar

35. The World We Found - Thrity Umrigar

36. A Small Furry Prayer - Steven Kotler

37. The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides

38. Fifty Shades of Grey - EL James

39. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

40. Delirium - Lauren Oliver

41. The Kid: A Novel - Sapphire

42. Stiltsville: A Novel - Susanna Daniel

43. Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler

44. The Good Thief - Hannah Tinti

45. Gossip - Beth Gutcheon

46. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields (REREAD?)

47. The Accidental Billionaires - Ben Mezrich

48. Ape House - Sara Gruen

49. The Senator's Wife - Sue Miller

50. Sacred Hearts - Sarah Dunant

51. Unfinished Desires - Gail Godwin

52. The Stuff that Never Happened - Maddie Dawson

53. The Bright Forever - Lee Martin

54. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

55. Pandemonium - Lauren Oliver

56. Nightwoods: A Novel - Charles Frazier

57. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver (REREAD)

58. An Available Man: A Novel - Hilma Wolitzer

59. Leeway Cottage - Beth Gutcheon

60. Testimony: A Novel - Anita Shreve

62. The Descendants: A Novel - Kaui Hart Hemmings

63. More Than You Know - Beth Gutcheon

64. The Passage - Justin Cronin

65. Good-bye and Amen (P.S.) - Beth Gutcheon

66. Girls in White Dresses - Jennifer Close

67. The Cottage at Glass Beach - Heather Barbieri

68. A Gate at the Stairs - Lorrie Moore

69. The Road - Cormac McCarthy

70. Wool Omnibus - Hugh Howey

71. First Shift - Legacy - Hugh Howey

72. Cloud Atlas: A Novel - David Mitchell

73. Olive Kitteridge: Fiction - Elizabeth Strout

74. The Tiger's Wife: A Novel - Tea Obreht

75. Everyone's Reading Bastard - Nick Hornby

76. To Marry an English Lord - Gail MacColl, Carol McD. Wallace

77. Mariana - Susanna Kearsley

78. August is a Wicked Month - Edna O'Brien

79. The Flight of Gemma Hardy - Margot Livesey

80. Breakdown - Katherine Amt Hanna

81. The Hurricane - Hugh Howey

82. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

83. The Twelve - Justin Cronin

84. How to Be an American Housewife - Margaret Dilloway

85. Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward

86. This is How Your Lose Her - Junot Diaz

87. All Woman and Springtime - Brandon W. Jones

88. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark

89. And Laughter Fell From the Sky - Jyotsna Sreenivasan

90. We Only Know So Much - Elizabeth Crane

91. The Healing - Jonathan Odell

92. The Cranes Dance - Meg Howrey

93. The Virgin Cure: A Novel - Ami McKay

94. Coraline - Neil Gaiman

95. Before I Go To Sleep - S. J. Watson

96. The Dog Stars - Peter Heller

97. Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart

98. The Coldest Night - Robert Olmstead

99. The Soldier's Wife - Margaret Leroy

100. Gone Girl: A Novel - Gillian Flynn

101. Swamplandia! - Karen Russell