1. Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
2. The Revolt of Mother and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
3. The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
4. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
5. Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
6. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
total read: 6
best read: The House of Mirth by Wharton
February
7. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
8. 3 shorts by Zora Neale Hurston: Sweat, John Redding Goes to Sea, Six Gilded Bits
9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. Friends Like Us by Lauren Fox
total read: 4
best read: Friends Like Us by Lauren Fox
March
11. Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
12. 3 shorts by Dorothy Parker: The Lovely Leave, Mr. Durant and The Big Blonde
13. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
14. Some Assembly Required, A Journal of My Son's First Son by Anne Lamott
total read: 4
best read: Some Assembly Required, a Journal of My Son's First Son by Anne Lamott
April
15. Just Like Us by Helen Thorpe
16. Cold Flat Junction by Martha Grimes
total read: 2 (could it get any worse than this?!?)
best read: Cold Flat Junction by Martha Grimes
May
17. The Latehomecomer, A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
18. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
total read: 2 (I am feeling quite book deprived by this time - last year I had 36 read by now).
best read: The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
June
19. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
20. His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
21. Indefensible by Pamela Callow
22. Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern
total read: 4 (It's looking up from here. Summer vacation has started!)
best read: Hist Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
July
23. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
24. Becoming Sister Wives by The Brown Family
25. The Pact by Jennifer Sturman
26. Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
total read: 4
best read: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
August
27. Come Sunday by Isla Morley
28. Big Girl Small by Rachel DeWoskin
29. The Condition by Jennifer Haigh
30. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
total read: 4
best read: Big Girl Small by Rachel DeWoskin
September
31. Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann
32. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
33. The Age of Desire by Jennie Fields
34. We Sinners by Hanna Pylvainen
35. Sula by Toni Morrison
36. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
37. Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
total read: 7
best read: A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
October
38. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
39. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
40. The Good Dream by Donna VanLiere
total read: 3
best read: The Good Dream by Donna VanLiere
November
41. Tar Baby by Toni Morison
42. The Giver by Lois Lowry
43. The Racketeer by John Grisham
44. An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork by Etty Hillesum
45. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
total read: 5
best read: The Racketeer by John Grisham
December
46. Beloved by Toni Morrison (my sixth and last Morrison novel)
47. Grave Mercy by Robin LeFevers
48. Crusoe's Daughter by Jane Gardam
total read: 3
best read: Grave Mercy by Robin LeFevers
2012 BEST OF RECAP (OR THE ONES I'M GLAD I READ)
1. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
2. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
3. Some Assembly Required by Anne LaMott
4. The Late Homecomer, A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
5. His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
6. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
7. Big Girl Small by Rachel DeWoskin
8. Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (Mostly for the read-a-long fun)
9. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
10. Where'd You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple
11. The Racketeer by John Grisham
12. An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork by Etty Hillesum
13. Grave Mercy by Robin LeFevers
