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A Year of Books (2012)

Sacre Bleu (Christopher Moore) December

Hoot (Carl Hiaasen) December

The Lady of the Rivers (Philippa Gregory) November

The Hare With Amber Eyes (Edmund de Waal) November

Brain Rules (John Medina) October

Half Blood Blues (Esi Edugyan) September

Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) August

Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) August

Never Knowing (Chevy Stevens) July

Come Home (Lisa Scottoline) July

Look Again (Lisa Scottoline) June

The Sometimes Daughter (Sherri Wood Emmons) June

The House at Riverton (Kate Morton) June

The Mango Season (Amulya Malladi) June

alice, i think (Susan Juby) May

Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout ) May

Some Assembly Required (Anne Lamott) May

Operating Instructions (Anne Lamott) May

bird by bird (Anne Lamott) April

Stones Into Schools (Greg Mortenson) April

Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson) April

A Spot of Bother (mark haddon) March

The Accident (Linwood Barclay) March

The Sisters Brothers (Patrick DeWitt) March

The Lost Gate (Orson Scott Card) March

The Queens Gamble (Barbara Kyle) February

The House of Tomorrow (Peter Bognanni) February

Still Alice (Lisa Genova) February

Not Buying it: Judith Levine (January)

The Virgin Cure ( Ami McKay) January

Gilead (Marilynne Robinson) January

A Year of Books (2011).....

The Valley of the Dolls (Jacqueline Susann) December

The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern) December

Blue Diary (Alice Hoffman) November

The Girl in the Mirror(Sarah Gristwood) November

Microstyle (Christopher Johnson) November

Perfume (Patrick Suskind) November

The Secret Life of Bees(Sue Monk Kidd) October

Here On Earth (Alice Hoffman) October

Never Look Away (Linwood Barclay) October

Little Bee ( Chris Cleave ) October

Come, Thou Tortoise (Jessica Grant) September

Child Thief (Brom) September

Wonder (Robert Sawyer) September

Late Nights on Air (Elizabeth Hay) August

Alone in the Classroom (Elizabeth Hay) July

Watch (Robert Sawyer) July

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains(Nicholas Carr) July

The Help (Kathryn Stockett) July

The Diamond of Darkhold (Jeanne DuPrau) June

Ella (Margaret Peterson Haddix) June

The Hummingbird's Daughter (Luis Alberto Urrea)

Six Metres of Pavement (Farzana Doctor) May

I was Told There'd Be Cake (Sloane Crosley) May

Asperger's Syndrome (Melinda Docter) May

A Blade of Grass (Lewis DeSoto) May

An Absolute Scandal (Penny Vincenzi)(May)

[ummm, some book that I can't remember the title] April

Unaccustomed Earth(Jhumpa Lahiri) April

Miss Scarlet's School of Patternless Sewing (Kathy Cano-Murillo) April

How to Be Popular (Meg Cabot) March

The Queen's Captive (Barbara Kyle)March

Queen of Babble (Meg Cabot) March

The Red Queen (Philippa Gregory) March

The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls) February

the half life of stars (Louise Wener) February

In Her Shoes (Jennifer Weiner) February

Room (Emma Donoghue) February

Ten Thousand Lovers (Edeet Ravel) February

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (January)

The King's Daughter (January)

The Ruby in Her Navel (January)

Tuesday, January 24, 2012