2012 Books


1)  Acceptable Words by Gary Schmidt ★★★★
2)  A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld ★★★★☆
3)  Affinity by Sarah Waters ★★★★☆
4)  America by Jon Stewart ★★★☆
5)  Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins ★★★★
6)  Annabel by Lauren Oliver ★★★★
7)  An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin ★★★
8)  The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón ★★★★☆
9)  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver ★★★☆
10)  Are You There Vodka, It’s Me Chelsea? by Chelsea Handler ★★★☆
11)  As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner ★★★★
12)  As You Like It by William Shakespeare ★★★★★
13)  Attachments by Rainbow Rowell ★★★★☆
14)  The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket ★★★★
15)  Beautiful Boy by David Sheff ★★★★
16)  Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter★★★★
17)  Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo ★★★★
18)  Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys ★★★★
19)  Bleak House by Charles Dickens★★★★
20)  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz ★★★☆
21)  Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut ★★★★☆
22)  Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins ★★★★★
23)  Chicken With Plums by Marjane Satrapi★★☆
24)  Chocolat by Joanne Harris ★★★★☆
25)  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens ★★★★☆
26)  The City and The City by China Mieville ★★
27)  Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell ★★★★☆
28)  Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbonn ★★
29)  The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman ★★★
30)  Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese ★★★☆
31)  The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas ★★★★★
32)  Delirium by Lauren Oliver ★★★★
33)  The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac ★★★★
34)  Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams ★★★☆
35)  The Distant Hours by Kate Morton ★★★★☆
36)  The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman ★★
37)  The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff ★★★★★
38)  Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss ★★★★
39)  Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card ★★★★★
40)  Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card ★★★★★
41)  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradburg★★★★★
42)  The Fault in Our Stars by John Green ★★★★★
43)  Fighting Ruben Wolfe by Markus Zusak ★★★★
44)  The Final Problem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ★★★★☆
45)  First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde ★★★★★
46)  Forever by Maggie Stiefvater ★★★★
47)  The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry ★★★★
48)  Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn ★★★★☆
49)  The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ★★★★★
50)  Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry ★★★★★
51)  Henrietta's War by Joyce Dennys ★★★★
52)  That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis ★★☆
53)  The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein ★★★★★
54)  The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving ★★★☆
55)  The House at Riverton by Kate Morton ★★★★☆
56)  Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby ★★★★
57)  How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen ★★★★★
58)  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ★★★★☆
59)  The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill ★★★★☆
60)  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou ★★★★☆
61)  Imperfections by Tom Rachman ★★★★
62)  In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson ★★★★☆
63)  In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda ★★★
64)  In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez ★★★★★
65)  In the Woods by Tana French ★★★★
66)  The Innocent Man by John Grisham ★★★★
67)  Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz ★★★★
68)  Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling ★★★★
69)  I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella ★★
70)  Jazz ABZ by Wynton Marsalis ★★★★★
71)  Just One Day by Gayle Forman ★★★★
72)  J is for Judgement by Sue Grafton ★★★☆
73)  Kenny and the Dragon by Tony DiTerlizzi ★★★★☆
74)  Knight’s Castle by Edward Eager ★★★★
75)  Lady Susan by Jane Austen ★★★☆
76)  The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh ★★★☆
77)  A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines ★★★
78)  Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson ★★★★☆
79)  Liar by Justine Larbalestier ★★
80)  Life Is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman ★★★★
81)  Linnea in Monet's Garden by Cristina Bjork ★★★★★
82)  The Likeness by Tana French ★★★★★
83)  The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh ★★☆
84)  Love’s Labor’s Lost by William Shakespeare ★★★★
85)  Lysistrata by Aristophanes ★★★★
86)  The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean ★★★☆
87)  The Master by Colm Toibin ★★★
88)  The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov ★★★★
89)  Midnight Fright by Dickens, Onions, Gilman ★★★★
90)  Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy ★★★☆
91)  Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink ★★★★
92)  Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson ★★★★☆
93)  Moby Dick by Herman Melville ★★★★☆
94)  Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins ★★★★
95)  The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi ★★★★☆
96)  Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane ★★★★
97)  My Ántonia by Willa Cather ★★★☆
98)  The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie ★★★★
99)  Othello by William Shakespeare★★★★☆
100)  The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore★★★★
101)  Outsmarting Yourself by Karl Lehman ★★★☆
102)  Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver ★★★
103)  The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky ★★★★★
104)  The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe ★★★★
105)  The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich ★★★
106)  The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón ★★★★☆
107)  Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain ★★★☆
108)  Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery ★★★★
109)  Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour and Introduction by J.D. Salinger ★★★★★
110)  Ready Player One by Ernest Cline ★★★★☆
111)  Rereadings by Anne Fadiman ★★★☆
112)  The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ★★★★☆
113)  The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy ★★★★★
114)  Return of the Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett ★★★☆
115)  Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery ★★★★★
116)  The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood ★★★★
117)  The Rose of Fire by Carlos Ruiz Zafón ★★★★
118)  Round the Fire Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ★★★★
119)  Rules of Civility by Amor Towles ★★★★
120)  Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi ★★★★☆
121)  The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy ★★★☆
122)  The Secret History by Donna Tartt ★★★★
123)  Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen ★★★★★
124)  The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón ★★★★★
125)  The Shallows by Nicholas Carr ★★★★
126)  The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ★★★★★
127)  Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper ★★★★
128)  Soulless by Gail Carriger ★★★
129)  Sounder by William H. Armstrong ★★★★
130)  Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov ★★★★
131)  The Stand by Stephen King ★★★★☆
132)  A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams ★★★★☆
133)  The Submission by Amy Waldman ★★★★☆
134)  Testimony by Anita Shreve ★★★
135)  Thunderstruck by Erik Larson ★★★★
136)  Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare ★★★★☆
137)  Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand ★★★★
138)  Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose ★★★★☆
139)  The Underdog by Markus Zusak ★★★☆
140)  Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell ★★★☆
141)  The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell ★★★★☆
142)  A Venetian Affair by Andrea Di Robilant ★★
143)  V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd ★★★★
144)  Villette by Charlotte Bronte ★★★★☆
145)  When She Woke by Hillary Jordan ★★★
146)  When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★☆
147)  Wild by Cheryl Strayed ★★★★☆
148)  Wild Nights! by Joyce Carol Oates ★★
149)  The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ★★★★☆

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