Category Archives: Year End

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

Books Read in 2010

• Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger: I knew zilch about either Taylor or Burton before I read Furious Love, and afterward I was completely smitten with both of them and may or may not have put all their films on my Netflix queue. It’s serious.
  
• Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation edited by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman: A worthy follow-up to Bonstein’s original Gender Outlaw, this anthology managed to represent a wide range of gender variance and identity.
  
• I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman: If there was such a thing as a “literary mystery,” this would be it.
• Zombies vs Unicorns edited by Justine Larbalestier and Holly Black
  
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan: Oh Tiny Cooper, please be my best friend.
• Big Girls Don’t Cry by Rebecca Traister (audio narrated by Kristen Potter)
• Missed Her by Ivan Coyote

Bonus! Gratuitous cat cuteness!

Henry and Idgie snuggle up.

Bonus! First purchased books of the year!

The good news–I sold about 10 books to a used bookstore! The better news–I used to credit to buy two new ones!

Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV by Jennifer Pozner: This comes with the highest of recommendations by Melissa Harris-Perry, professor at Princeton and MSNBC commentator, and since I basically listen to whatever she says, I couldn’t resist buying the book. It’s published by Seal Press, which published some of the best books on gender studies and feminism.

Boston Noir edited by Dennis Lehane: I have a bit of love for crime novels, and this is a collection of stories set in different neighborhoods in Boston, where I happen to live. I am very excited about it.

Bonus! Melissa Harris-Perry on removing the n-word from Huckleberry Finn!

This video will quickly help you realize why I can’t refuse her recommendations.

Bonus! This will be my last list post about books read in 2010!

December

1. Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
2. Who Moved My Blackberry? by Lucy Kellaway
3. Pretty Little Liars (#1) by Sara Shepard
4. Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
5. Flawless (Pretty Little Liars #2) by Sara Shepard
6. Perfect (Pretty Little Liars #3) by Sara Shepard
7. Unbelievable (Pretty Little Liars #4) by Sara Shepard
8. Wicked (Pretty Little Liars #5) by Sara Shepard
9. Landing by Emma Donoghue
10. Killer (Pretty Little Liars #6) by Sara Shepard
11. Heartless (Pretty Little Liars #7) by Sara Shepard
12. Wanted (Pretty Little Liars #8) by Sara Shepard
13. Powder Necklace by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
14. Mr. Toppit by Charles Elton
15. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
16. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
17. Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
18. Travels In a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans by Philip Gambone
19. The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest if Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America by Charles Ogletree
20. More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
21. Love Is the Higher Law by David Levithan
22. What Would Jane Austen Do? by Laurie Brown
23. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro

November

1. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
2. The Lying Game by Sara Shephard
3. Freak Show by James St. James
4. Scars by Cheryl Rainfield
5. Zombies Vs Unicorns edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier
6. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
7. Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists edited by Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan
8. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris
9. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
10. David Inside Out by Lee Bantle
11. Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
12. Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
13. Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

October

1. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
2. Medium Raw by Anthony Boudain
3. Packing the Court by James MacGregor Burns
4. Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation edited by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman
5. The Final Detail: Myron Bolitar #7 by Harlan Coben
6. Darkest Fear: Myron Bolitar #8 by Harlan Coben
7. Wide Awake by David Levithan
8. Based Upon Availability by Alix Strauss
9. Running the Books by Avi Steinberg
10. Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde
11. Hear Us Out! by Nancy Garden
12. Big Girls Don’t Cry by Rebecca Traister
13. The Woods by Harlan Coben
14. In The President’s Secret Service by Ronald Kessler
15. Dexter Is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay
16. Missed Her by Ivan Coyote
17. Delirium by Lauren Oliver

September

1. I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
2. Fade Away: Myron Bolitar #3 by Harlan Coben
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
4. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
5. Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
6. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
7. The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo
8. This Land Is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich
9. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
10. The Shadow Factory by James Bamford
11. Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
12. The False Friend by Myla Goldberg
13. The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar
14. Back Spin: Myron Bolitar #4 by Harlan Coben
15. One False Move: Myron Bolitar #5 by Harlan Coben
16. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
17. Half the Sky: Turning Opression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

August

1. Going Rouge: An American Nightmare edited by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed
2. Brightsided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich
3. Gods In Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
4. In the Land of Believers: An Outsider’s Extraordinary Journey Into the Heart of the Evangelical Church by Gina Welch
5. The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Frank Rich
6. God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
7. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. The Humbling by Philip Roth
9. Freakonomics by Stephen Leavitt and Stephen Dubner
10. Beastly by Alex Flinn
11. Deliver Us From Evie by M.E. Kerr
12. Avalon High by Meg Cabot
13. Sing Sing: The Inside Story of A Notorious Prison by Brian Denis
14. Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
15. Caught by Harlan Coben
16. A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliott
17. Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
18. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
19. Deal Breaker: Myron Bolitar #1 by
20. Stiff by Mary Roach
21. The Boy With the Cuckoo Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu
22. Drop Shot: Myron Bolitar #2 by Harlan Coben

July

1. This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson
2. Fables: Arabian Nights (and Days) by Bill Willingham
3. Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner
4. It’s a Jungle Out There by Amanda Marcotte
5. Fables: Wolves by Bill Willingham
6. Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham
7. Jack of Fables: The (Nearly) Great Escape by Bill Willingham
8. Follow Me Down by Shelby Foote
9. Bellfield Hall: The Observations of Miss Dido Kent by Anna Dean
10. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
11. The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman
12. Fables: Sons of Empire by Bill Willingham
13. Fables: The Good Prince by Bill Willingham
14. All Sleek and Skimming: Stories edited by Lisa Heggum
15. Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
16. Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
17. Fables: War and Pieces by Bill Willingham
18. Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing by Ted Conover
19. Fables: The Dark Ages by Bill Willingham
20. Conservatize Me by John Moe
21. Love Is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield

June

1. The Magnificent 12: The Call by Michael Grant
2. Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
3. The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
4. Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
5. A People’s History of the United States: Highlights From the 20th Century by Howard Zinn
6. The Breakthrough: Politics and Race In the Age of Obama by Gwen Ifill
7. Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
8. Fables: Storybook of Love by Bill Willingham
9. Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham
10. The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
11. Push by Sapphire
12. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
13. Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China by Guy Delisle
14. Fables: The Mean Seasons by Bill Willingham
15. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
16. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
17. Fables: Homelands by Bill Willingham

May

1. Finding George Orwell In Burma by Emma Larkin
2. Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman
3. Dead In the Family by Charlaine Harris
4. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven by Sherman Alexie
5. Charm City by Laura Lippman
6. Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman
7. Woman From Shanghai by Xianhui Yang
8. The Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol
9. Ordinary Resurrections by Jonathan Kozol
10. Columbine by Dave Cullen
11. Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky

April

1. Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda
2. Dexter In the Dark by Jeff Lindsay
3. War Dances by Sherman Alexie
4. Dexter By Design by Jeff Lindsay
5. In Mike We Trust by P.E. Ryan
6. Bite Me by Christopher Moore
7. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
8. Two or Three Things I Know For Sure by Dorothy Allison
9. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
10. Are We There Yet? by David Levithan
11. A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L’Engle
12. If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
13. Fables: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
14. Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
15. Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
16. Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir by Terry Galloway
17. I Am A Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
18. Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
19. Flight by Sherman Alexie
20. The Cat Ate My Gym Suit by Paula Danzinger
21. Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
22. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
23. The Family Man by Elinor Lipman
24. Holes by Louis Sachar
25. My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
26. My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger
27. What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
28. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
29. The Book of Everything by Guus Kuijer
30. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

March

1. The Last Time I Wore a Dress: A Memoir by Dylan Scholinski
2. Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore
3. All Unquiet Things by Anna Jarzab
4. Black Hole by Charles Burns
5. Devilish by Maureen Johnson
6. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
7. Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko
8. Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon
9. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
10. Pedro and Me by Judd Winick
11. Mr. Knightley’s Diary by Amanda Grange
12. Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
13. Behind You by Jacuqline Woodson
14. Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
15. Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich
16. You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
17. The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga
18. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
19. Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
20. Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
21. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
22. A Clue For the Puzzle Lady by Parnell Hall
23. Nation by Terry Pratchet
24. If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period by Gennifer Choldenko
25. Nylon Road by Parsua Bashi
26. Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

February

1. Black Girl, White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
2. Angel of Death Row: My Life As a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer by Andrea Lyon
3. Crossing Washington Square by Joanne Rendell
4. Lena by Jacqueline Woodson
5. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
6. Out of the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst
7. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonneguet
8. Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations by bell hooks
9. Pride and Prejudice: A Graphic Novel by Nancy Butler
10. Scarlett Takes Manhattan by Molly Crabapple
11. The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
12. The House You Pass On the Way by Jacqueline Woodson
13. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table: A Graphic Novel by M.C. Hall
14. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol
15. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
16. The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
17. Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
18. Jane Bites Back by Michael Thomas Ford
19. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
20. Blankets by Craig Thompson

January

1. Lost In a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
3. Resilience by Elizabeth Edwards
4. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
5. Until It’s Over by Nicci French
6. American Born Chinese by Luen Gene Yang
7. A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn
8. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
9. The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
10. Liar by Justine Larbalestier
11. Flowers In the Attic by V.C. Andrews
12. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
13. The Alchemist: The Immortal Nicholas Flammel by Michael Scott
14. Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens edited by Tony Grima
15. Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show by Lynn Breedlove
16. Confederates In the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civill War by Tony Horwitz
17. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
18. M*A*S*H by Richard Hooker
19. Arab In America by Toufic El Rassi
20. Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst
21. Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
22. Fables: Legends In Exile by Bill Willingham
23. How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity edited by Michael Cart
24. Emma by Jane Austen
25. Kindred by Olivia Butler
26. Getting the Girl by Markus Zusak
27. The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde