Books Read in 2012

(links are to reviews)

January:

1. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Kydd by Julian Stockwin
3. The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton
4. The Devil’s Queen by Jeanne Kalogridis
5. Revealing Eden by Victoria Foyt
6. Tribulations by Ken Shufeldt
7. Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea by Morgan Callan Rogers
8. The Aviary by Kathleen O’Dell
9. Faith by Jennifer Haigh
10. Composing Amelia by Alison Strobel
11. The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffman
12. Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
13. The Shining by Stephen King
14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
15. The Winter Palace by Eve Stachniak
16. Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth
17. The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud
18. Heft by Liz Moore
19. New Girl by Paige Harbison
20. Night Swim by Jessica Keener
21. Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
22. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
23. Beauty and the Werewolf by Mercedes Lackey
24. Ragnarok by A.S. Byatt

February:

1. The Last Storyteller by Frank Delaney
2. Romantic Fairy Tales by Goethe, Tieck, Fouque, and Brentano
3. Delicacy by David Foenkinos
4. Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
5. The Fault in our Stars by John Green
6. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
7. The Dressmaker by Posie Graeme-Evans
8. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
9. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
10. Walter’s Muse by Jean Davies Okimoto
11. The Baker’s Daughter by Sarah McCoy
12. Same Sun Here by Silas House and Neela Vaswani

March:

1. Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
2. Clair de Lune by Jetta Carlton
3. Allegience by Cayla Kluver
4. Pure by Julianna Baggott
5. Losing Clementine by Ashley Ream
6. Wide Open by Deborah Coates
7. Enchantments by Kathryn Harrison

April:

1. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
2. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
3. Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty
4. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
5. Freeheads by Kerry Nietz
6. Irises by Francisco X. Stork
7. The Obsidian Blade by Pete Hautman
8. Dream I Tell You by Helene Cixous
9. Royal Street by Suzanne Johnson
10. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
11. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
12. Comeback Love by Peter Golden
13. First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung

May:

1. The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood
2. Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
3. Emerald City Dreamer by Luna Lindsey
4. Make It Stay by Joan Frank
5. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
6. Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
7. The Belgariad Vol. 1by David Eddings
   1. Pawn of Prophecy
   2. Queen of Sorcery
   3. Magician’s Gambit
8. The Belgariad Vol. 2 by David Eddings
   1. Castle of Wizardry
   2. Enchanters’ End Game
9. Earthseed by Pamela Sargent
10. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
11. Glow by Jessica Maria Tuccelli
12. Railsea by China Mieville
13. The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
14. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

June:

1. The Unseen by Katherine Webb
2. The Long Earth by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett
3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
4. Secret Graces by Kathryn Magendie
5. Selkie Dreams by Kristin Gleeson
6. The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
7. The Replacement Wife by Eileen Goudge
8. Abdication by Juliet Nicolson
9. Grow Up by Ben Brooks
10. The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
11. Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon
12. Erebos by Ursula Poznanski
13. Goddess Interrupted by Aimee Carter
14. Never Tell by Alafair Burke
15. The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesly
16. The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
17. The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
18. Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace by Kate Summerscale
19. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
20. Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel
21. Imperfect Bliss by Susan Fales-Hill
22. Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
23. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

July:

1. What You Wish For by Kerry Reichs
2. Juliet in August by Dianne Warren
3. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
4. Dark Companion by Marta Acosta
5. Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
6. Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
7. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield
8. The Innocents by Francesca Segal
9. One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf
10. Americans in Space by Mary E. Mitchell
11. The Violinist’s Thumb by Sam Kean
12. Cold Light by Traci L. Slatton
13. Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
14. The Pigeon Pie Mystery by Julia Stuart
15. The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern
16. Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann
17. The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison
18. The Age of Desire by Jennie Fields
19. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
20. Broken Harbor by Tana French
21. The Wednesdays by Julie Bourbeau
22. House of Shadows by Rachel Neumeier
23. The Second Empress by Michelle Moran
24. The Hedgewitch Queen by Lilith Saintcrow

August:

1. The Forrests by Emily Perkins
2. Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead
3. Every Day by David Levithan
4. What’s Left of Me by Kat Zhang
5. The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
6. The Passage by Justin Cronin
7. The Death Cure by James Dashner
8. The Healer of Fox Hollow by Joann Rose Leonard
9. Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
10. The Kill Order by James Dashner
11. Enclave by Ann Aguirre
12. Miss Me When I’m Gone by Emily Arsenault
13. The Map of the Sky by Felix J. Palma
14. Crewel by Gennifer Albin
15. John Saturnall’s Feast by Lawrence Norfolk
16. Speechless by Hannah Harrington
17. On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
18. Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama
19. Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
20. The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets by Kathleen Alcott
21. The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
22. Frozen by Mary Casanova
23. The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
24. What Happened to My Sister by Elizabeth Flock
25. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Green
26. In a Fix by Linda Grimes
27. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
28. The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
29. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
30. The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
31. Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
32. The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
33. Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake
34. The Whipping Club by Deborah Henry
35. Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan
36. The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
37. Breathe by Sarah Crossan

September: 

1. Redshirts by John Scalzi
2. Wake by Amanda Hocking
3. Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier
4. The Kingmaker’s Daughter by Philippa Gregory
5. Those We Love Most by Lee Woodruff
6. The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu
7. The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
8. The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde
9. The Spindlers by Lauren Oliver.
10. Jane by Robin Maxwell
11. Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta

October:

1. Fools Crow by James Welch
2. Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta
3. Dead City by James Ponti
4. The Surrounded by D’Arcy McNickle
5. Mystic City by Theo Lawrence
6. The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa
7. The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
8. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
9. Level 2 by Lenore Appelhans
10. Two and Twenty Dark Tales Compilation
11. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
12. Krampus by Brom
13. Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub

November:

1. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Tracks by Louise Erdrich
3. Benito Cerino by Herman Melville
4. Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
5. Roofwalker by Susan Powers
6. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

December:

1. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
2. City of Women by David R. Gillham
3. River Road by Suzanne Johnson
4. Ash by James Herbert
5. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
6. Ironskin by Tina Connelly
7. The Death of Bees by Lisa O’Donnell
8. Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz
9. The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon
10. Daddy Love by Joyce Carol Oates
11. Collateral by Ellen Hopkins
12. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Total for the year: 199 – SO CLOSE to 200!