GOAL: 60 BOOKS READ IN 2012!
Update: GOAL ACHIEVED!
- The Blue Zones — Dan Buettner
- This is Where I Leave You — Jonathan Tropper
- Ready Player One — Ernest Cline
- The Marriage Plot — Jeffrey Eugenides
- Songs Without Words — Ann Packer
- The Dive From Clausen’s Pier — Ann Packer
- Mendocino — Ann Packer
- The Chronicles of Harris Burdick — Chris Van Allsburg (et al)
- Next to Love — Ellen Feldman
- Blood, Bones & Butter — Gabrielle Hamilton
- With Liberty and Justice for Some — Glenn Greenwald
- Habibi — Craig Thompson * The Toronto Public Library workers are on strike, so I am definitely falling behind on reading. YIKES!*
- Bride of New France — Suzanne Desrochers
- The Swan Thieves — Elizabeth Kostova
- The O’Briens — Peter Behrens
- All That I Am — Anna Funder
- The World We Found — Thrity Umrigar
- Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness — Alexandra Fuller
- The Space Between Us — Thrity Umrigar
- Blueprints for Building Better Girls — Elissa Schappell
- The Unthinkable — Amanda Ripley
- The Psychopath Test — Jon Ronson
- The Weight of Heaven — Thrity Umrigar
- I Couldn’t Love You More — Jillian Medoff
- If Today Be Sweet — Thrity Umrigar
- The Men Who Stare at Goats — Jon Ronson
- Them: Adventures with Extremists — Jon Ronson
- The Night Circus — Erin Morgenstern
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? — Mindy Kaling
- Drowned — Therese Bohman
- Pulphead: Essays — John Jeremiah Sullivan
- You Deserve Nothing — Alexander Maksik
- Matt & Ben — Mindy Kaling & Brenda Withers
- The House I Loved — Tatiana de Rosnay
- The End of Everything — Megan Abbott
- The Baker’s Daughter — Sarah McCoy
- Rabid — Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
- A Visit from the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan
- Gone Girl — Gillian Flynn
- Guts — Kirsten Johnston
- The Kindness of Strangers — Katrina Kittle
- Eat & Run — Scott Jurek with Steve Friedman
- Are You My Mother? — Alison Bechdel
- Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake — Anna Quindlen
- The Weight of Silence — Heather Gudenkauf
- The Innocents — Francesca Segal
- Dare Me — Megan Abbott
- The Purity Myth — Jessica Valenti
- Let’s Pretend This Never Happened — Jenny Lawson [This book was really bad. REALLY bad.]
- Radio Iris — Anne-Marie Kinney
- Two Whole Cakes — Lesley Kinzel
- Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell
- The Skinny Rules — Bob Harper with Greg Critser
- The Art Forger — B.A. Shapiro
- Seating Arrangements — Maggie Shipstead
- When She Woke — Hillary Jordan
- American Dervish — Ayad Akhtar
- The Age of Miracles — Karen Thompson Walker
- Celebration, U.S.A. — Douglas Frantz & Catherine Collins
- The Chocolate Money — Ashley Prentice Norton
- The Middlesteins — Jami Attenberg
- Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic — David Quammen