BIHR 2012

GOAL: 60 BOOKS READ IN 2012!

Update: GOAL ACHIEVED!

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

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