Read 2012

December

1. Drop Shot (Myron Bolitar #2) by Harlan Coben (audio)
2. The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits (audio)
3. Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
4. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (audio)
5. The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw (audio)
6. The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin (audio)
7. The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George
8. Say Nice Things About Detroit by Scott Lasser (audio)
9. Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (audio)
10. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (audio)

November

1. The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson #4) by Robert A. Caro (audio)
2. These Things Happen by Richard Kramer
3. The Heart Has Its Reasons: Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004 by Michael Cart and Christine Jenkins
4. Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson #3) by Robert A. Caro (audio)
5. Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court by Jeff Sheshol (audio)
6. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (audio)
7. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein (audio)

October

1. Dancing In the Streets: A Novel of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich (audio)
2. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (audio)
3. Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King (audio)
4. Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy by Christopher Hayes (audio)
5. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (audio)
6. Heart of Darkness by Joesph Conrad (audio)
7. Love, In Theory by E.J. Levy
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (audio)
9. Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness by Jessica Valenti (ebook)
10. But I Really Wanted to Be an Anthropologist by Margaux Motin
11. Seconds Away (Mickey Bolitar, #2) by Harlan Coben
12. You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon (audio)
13. Diary by Chuck Palahniuk (audio)
14. Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin (audio)
15. Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Life of Bible Belt Gays by Bernadette C. Barton (ebook)
16. The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid (audio)
17. How to Be Gay by David M. Halperin
18. Astray by Emma Donoghue (audio)

September

1. Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America by Jonathan Kozol
2. Prayers for Rain (Kenzie & Gennaro, #5) by Dennis Lehane (audio)
3. The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English (audio)
4. Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6) by Dennis Lehane (ebook)
5. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (audio)
6. Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart (audio)
7. Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman (audio)
8. Deal Breaker (Myron Bolitar #1) by Harlan Coben (audio)
9. The Last Nude by Ellis Avery (audio)
10. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (ebook)
11. The Tommyknockers by Stephen King (audio)
12. Before the Rain by Luisita López Torregrosa
13. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn (audio)
14. Criminal by Karin Slaughter
15. Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss (audio)

August

1. The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler (audio)
2. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby (audio)
3. The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman (ebook)
4. Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King (audio)
5. A Place of Execution by Val McDermid (audio)
6. Apt Pupil by Stephen King (audio)
7. Heading Out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick (audio)
8. Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy (audio)
9. The Shining by Stephen King (ebook)
10. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (audio)
11. The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates (audio)
12. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (audio)
13. A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1) by Dennis Lehane (audio)
14. Darkness Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2) by Dennis Lehane (audio)
15. ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (audio)
16. The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman (audio)
17. Dare Me by Megan Abbott (audio)
18. Starting From Here by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
19. Sacred (Kenzie & Gennaro, #3) by Dennis Lehane (audio)
20. Year Zero by Rob Reid (audio)
21. Gone Baby Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4) by Dennis Lehane (audio)

July

1. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (audio)
   
2. Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton
3. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (audio)
4. Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon (audio)
5. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (audio)
6. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (ebook)
7. The Stand by Stephen King (audio)
8. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (audio)
9. Drawn With the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War by James M. McPherson (ebook)
10. As Texas Goes…: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda by Gail Collins (audio)
11. Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein (audio)
12. Gaga Feminism by J. Jack Halberstam (ebook)
13. Christine by Stephen King (audio)
14. City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago by Gary Krist (audio)
15. The Dark Half by Stephen King (audio)
16. Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (audio)
17. About a Boy by Nick Hornby (audio)
18. The Baker Street Letters by Michael Robertson (audio)

June

1. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
2. Oklahoma City by Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles (audio)
3. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (audio)
4. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
5. Angel’s Tip (Ellie Hatcher #2) by Alafair Burke
6. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
7. Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel (audio)
8. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (audio)
9. Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage edited by Ryan Conrad
10. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (ebook)
11. Mind-Blowing Sex: A Woman’s Guide by Diana Cage (ebook)
12. Burglars Can’t Be Choosers by Lawrence Block
13. Britten and Brülightly by Hannah Berry
14. The Rabbi’s Cat by Joann Sfar
15. The Might Have Been by Joesph M. Schuster
16. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (audio)
17. Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson (ebook)
18. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings (audio)
19. The Infernals by John Connolly (audio)
20. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

May

1. Care To Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?: A Believer Book of Advice edited by Eric Spitznagel (audio)
2. Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
3. Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York by Richard Zacks (audio)
4. The Harder She Comes: Butch Femme Erotica by D.L. King
5. The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith by Matthew Bowman (audio)
6. Dead Connection (Ellie Hatcher #1) by Alafair Burke (audio)
7. Bottle Rocket Hearts by Zoe Whittall
8. The Family Corleone by Edward Falco (audio)
9. The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler (audio)
10. The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century by Scott Miller (audio)
11. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (audio)
12. The Forever War by Dexter Filkins (audio)
13. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho (ebook)
14. It by Stephen King (audio)
15. Taft 2012 by Jason Heller
16. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (ebook)
17. The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy (audio)
18. The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves edited by Sarah Moon
19. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman (audio)

April

1. Stay Close by  Harlan Coben (audio):
2. The New Topping Book by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy (ebook)
3. I’m Not Crazy, Just Bipolar by Wendy K. Williamson (ebook)
4. Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner by Julie A. Fast, John Preston (ebook)
5. Always Something There to Remind Me by Beth Harbison (audio)
6. Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow (audio)
7. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
8. The Good Father by Noah Hawley (audio)
9. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
10. Pity the Billionaire: The Unexpected Resurgence of the American Right by Thomas Frank (audio)

March

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February

1. Wild Thing by Josh Bazell (ebook)
2. Well With My Soul by Gregory Allen
3. Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life by Samhita Mukhopadhyay (ebook)
4. Everything I Know About Love I Learned From Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell
5. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
6. Broken (Georgia Series #2) by Karin Slaughter (audio)
7. What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories by Nathan Englander (audio)
8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (audio)
9. Out of Sync by Lance Bass
10. Fallen (Georgia Series #3) by Karin Slaughter
11. Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner (audio)
12. Death Comes to Pemberly by PD James (audio)
13. The Comedy Is Finished by Donald E. Westlake (audio)
14. Best Lesbian Erotica 2012 edited by Kathleen Warnock

January

1. Devil of Nanking by Mo Hayder (audio)
2. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (ebook)
3. Cover Her Face by PD James
4. The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, etc. by Jonathan Lethen (audio)
5. Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell (audio)
6. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (audio)
7. A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres (audio)
8. The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by Evan Thomas (audio)
9. Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay (audio)
10. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (audio)

Books Read in 2011

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