Read in 2012
1. Blue Nights -- Joan Didion, Jan. 2 (e-book, from library)
2. My Reading Life -- Pat Conroy, Jan. 8 (audio, from library)
3. The Magician's Assistant -- Ann Patchett, Jan. 10
4. Sea Garden -- H. D., Jan. 12 (e-book)
5. Summer -- Edith Wharton, Jan. 22 (reread, e-book)
6. The Fat Years -- Guanzhong Chen, Feb. 1 (e-book, from library)
7. Andromeda Klein -- Frank Portman, Feb. 4 (audio, CDs I bought at library sale)
8. Lola and the Boy Next Door -- Stephanie Perkins, Feb. 7 (e-book, from library)
9. The Sense of an Ending -- Julian Barnes, Feb. 12 (audio, from library)
10. The Brief History of the Dead -- Kevin Brockmeier, Feb. 18
11. Manage Your Depression through Exercise: a Five-Week Plan to a Happier, Healthier You -- Jane Baxter, Feb. 19 (LTER)
12. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things -- Carolyn Mackler, Feb. 21
13. Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking -- Susan Cain, March 3 (audio, from library, but then I bought the hardcover because this book ROCKS!)
14. Cutting for Stone -- Abraham Verghese, March 12
15. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You -- Elaine Aron, March 20 (from library)
16. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats -- Jan-Phillip Sendker, March 24 (audio, from library)
17. Tender is the Night -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, April 7 (from library)
18. Time's Magpie: a Walk in Prague -- Myla Goldberg, April 12 (audio, from library)
19. The Woman in White -- Wilkie Collins, April 21 (reread, e-book)
20. The Back Chamber -- Donald Hall, April 22 (from library)
21. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business -- Charles Duhigg, May 12 (audio, from library)
22. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation -- Lynne Truss, May 12
23. Aftermath -- Sandra M. Gilbert, May 17 (from library)
24. Bloodroot -- Amy Greene, June 15
25. The Way of All Flesh -- Samuel Butler, June 16 (started as e-book, switched to audio)
26. The Bridge of San Luis Rey -- Thornton Wilder, July 1
27. The Hunger Angel -- Herta Müller, July 8 (LTER)
28. Like Life: Stories -- Lorrie Moore, July 8
29. Morning in the Burned House -- Margaret Atwood, July 13
30. Evening Train -- Denise Levertov, July 23
31. A Passage to India -- E. M. Forster, July 25 (audio, from library)
32. The Innocents -- Francesca Segal, Aug. 18 (audio, from library)
33. All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well -- Tod Wodicka, Aug. 19
34. Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World -- Sarah Vowell, Aug. 26
35. The Sparrow -- Mary Doria Russell, Oct. 1 (reread)
36. The Truth about Catalogers -- Will Manley, Oct. 4 (from library)
37. The Passage -- Justin Cronin, Oct. 27 (reread)
38. The Age of Miracles -- Karen Thompson Walker, Nov. 3 (audio, from library)
39. The Twelve -- Justin Cronin, Nov. 23
40. The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow: an Instant Message with Excitable Music -- Rolin Jones, Nov. 29 (from library)
41. The Devil in Silver -- Victor D. LaValle, Dec. 1 (audio, from library)
42. Brighton Rock: an Entertainment -- Graham Greene, Dec. 16
43. Edmund Bertram's Diary -- Amanda Grange, Dec. 26
44. Great Expectations -- Charles Dickens, Dec. 26 (audio, second listen)
Read in 2011
1. The Sparrow -- Mary Doria Russell, Jan. 1
2. The Help -- Kathryn Stockett, Jan. 2 (audio, second listen)
3. A Dog Called Kitty -- Bill Wallace, Jan. 5
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society -- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, Jan. 12
5. Let's Take the Long Way Home: a Memoir of Friendship -- Gail Caldwell, Jan. 15
6. The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte: a Novel -- Syrie James, Jan. 23
7. The BFG -- Roald Dahl, Jan. 29
8. Unaccustomed Earth -- Jhumpa Lahiri, Jan. 30 (audio)
9. The Crazed -- Ha Jin, Feb. 21
10. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -- Mary Wollstonecraft, Feb. 27 (audio)
11. The Ringer -- Jenny Shank, March 11 (LTER)
12. The End of Desire: Poems -- Jill Bialosky, March 14
13. A Boy's Will -- Robert Frost, March 20 (audio)
14. Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 -- Robert Hass, March 20
15. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks -- Rebecca Skloot, April 2
16. Sula -- Toni Morrison, April 9
17. A Village Life -- Louise Gluck, April 9
18. The Driver's Seat -- Muriel Spark, April 9
19. The Pilgrim's Progress -- John Bunyan, April 17 (audio)
20. The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors -- Michele Young-Stone, April 19 (won from The Book Lady's Blog!)
21. The Secret Garden -- Frances Hodgson Burnett, April 30 (audio)
22. Unaccustomed Earth -- Jhumpa Lahiri, May 11 (audio, second listen)
23. The Lightning Keeper -- Starling Lawrence, May 21
24. Half a Life: a Memoir -- Darin Strauss, May 22
25. Turning to Fiction: Poems -- Donna Masini, May 28
26. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian -- Sherman Alexie, May 31
27. Jude the Obscure -- Thomas Hardy, June 5 (audio)
28. The Shadow of the Wind -- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, June 16
29. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake -- Aimee Bender, June 27
30. Bunner Sisters -- Edith Wharton, July 10 (audio)
31. Olive Kitteridge -- Elizabeth Strout, July 22
32. Subterranean -- Jill Bialosky, July 23
33. Agnes Grey -- Anne Bronte, July 25 (audio)
34. Absalom, Absalom! -- William Faulkner, July 28 (audio)
35. The Marble Faun -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, July 30 (read most as ebook during June, finished in audio)
36. Life Work -- Donald Hall, Aug. 2
37. The Poet of Loch Ness -- Brian Jay Corrigan, Aug. 10
38. A Walk with Jane Austen: a Journey into Adventure, Love, & Faith -- Lori Smith, Aug. 24
39. Dreamers of the Day -- Mary Doria Russell, Aug. 28
40. A Fraction of the Whole -- Steve Toltz, Sept. 16
41. Robinson Crusoe -- Daniel Defoe, Sept. 25 (audio)
42. The Sleepwalkers -- Paul Grossman, Sept. 28
43. The Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl -- Timothy Egan, Oct. 11 (audio)
44. For Kings and Planets -- Ethan Canin, Oct. 14
45. Jane Austen Ruined My Life -- Beth Pattillo, Oct. 21
46. Tinkers -- Paul Harding, Oct. 29
47. The Book Thief -- Markus Zusak, Nov. 5 (audio, third listen)
48. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman -- Robert K. Massie, Dec. 1 (ARC, received from Random House)
49. Breath, Eyes, Memory -- Edwidge Danticat, Dec. 14
50. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -- Frederick Douglass, Dec. 24 (audio)
51. Fasting, Feasting -- Anita Desai, Dec. 24
52. Washington Square -- Henry James, Dec. 29
