2012/13 Reading List

Note: I did not do a good job of keeping track  of books read in 2012 and have recreated the list as best I could from various sources.

January 2012

• A Visit to the Good Squad – Jennifer Egan
• To Be Sung Underwater – Tom McNeal
• The Various Haunts of Men – Susan Hill

February 2012

• The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett
• The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje
• The Tiger’s Wife – Tea Obreht
• The Translator – Leila Aboulela
• After the Apocalypse: Stories – Maureen McHugh

March 2012

• State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
• The Drowning Tree – Carol Goodman
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (reread) – Jonathan Safran Foer
• Excellent Women – Barbara Pym

April 2012

• Astonishing Splashes of Colour – Clare Morrall
• The Testament of Jessie Lamb – Jane Rodgers
• Still Life – Louise Penny
• Glaciers – Alexis Smith
• The Submission – Amy Waldman

May 2012

• The Bird House – Kelly Simmons
• Ragnarok: The End of the Gods – A.S. Byatt
• The Lake of Dreams – Kim Edwards
• A Trick of the Light – Louise Penny
• The Language of Flowers – Vanessa Diffenbaugh

June 2012

• Train Dreams – Denis Johnson
• The River Warren – Kent Meyers
• Ashes to Dust – Yrsa Sigurdardottir
• Red Pottage – Mary Cholmondeley
• The Uninvited Guests – Sadie Jones
• The Grand Babylon Hotel – Arnold Bennett
• The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life – William Nicholson
• The Light Years: Volume 1 The Cazalet Chronicles – Elizabeth Jane Howard
• Marking Time: Volume 2 The Cazalet Chronicles – Elizabeth Jane Howard
• Lady Audley’s Secret – Mary Elizabeth Braddon

July 2012

• How it All Began – Penelope Lively
• A Partial History of Lost Causes – Jennifer Dubois
• Confusion: Volume 3 The Cazalet Chronicles – Elizabeth Jane Howard
• Another Time, Another Life: The Story of a Crime – Leif GW Persson
• The Buddha in the Attic – Julie Otsuka
• Turn of Mind (did not finish) – Alice Laplante
• How to Paint a Dead Man (did not finish) – Sarah Hall
• Claire de Lune – Jetta Carleton
• So Big (reread) – Edna Ferber

August 2012

• Casting Off: Volume 4 The Cazalet Chronicles – Elizabeth Jane Howard
• The Snow Goose: A Story – Paul Gallico
• The Leftovers – Tom Perrotta
• Vengeance – Benjamin Black
• Me and You – Niccolò Ammaniti
• A Canticle of Leibowitz – Walter M, Miller, Jr.
• Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein (reread)
• Self-Help: Stories – Lorrie Moore

September 2012

• The Caller: An Inspector Sejer Mystery – Karin Fossum
• The Stranger’s Child (did not finish) – Alan Hollinghurst
• Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into our Home Sweet Home – Matthew Batt
• The Rules of Civility – Amor Towles
• Chapman’s Odyssey – Paul Bailey
• Skios – Michael Frayn
• The Hand That Trembles – Kjell Eriksson

October 2012

• Tell the Wolves I’m Home – Carol Rifka Brunt
• The Age of Miracles – Karen Thompson Walker
• The Department of Lost Causes – Jussi Adler-Olsen
• The Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar – Suzanne Joinson
• Thanksgiving Night – Richard Bausch
• Black Rain – Masuji Ibuse
• The Arrivals – Meg Mitchell Moore

November 2012

• Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
• The Bird Artist – Howard Norman
• A Time to Keep Silent – Patrick Leigh Fermor
• So Long See You Tomorrow – William Maxwell
• The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway

December 2012

• The Imperfectionists – Tom Rachman
• The Unlikely Journey of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
• Colonel Chabert – Honore de Balzav
• The Brimming Cup – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Winter Journey – Isabel Colgate
• Happily Ever After – Harriet Evans
• Evalina: Or a History of a Young Lady’s Entrance to the World – Fanny Burney

Read but Unsure of the Month

• Life and Death of Harriet Frean – May Sinclair
• A Lifetime Burning – Linda Gillard
• Ravenhook – Carla Dewhurst
• The Colour of Her Eyes  Conan Kennedy
• Speaking of Love – Angela Young
• The Chronicles of Joe Muller, Detective: A Collection – Augusta Groner
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog (reread) – Muriel Barbery

January 2013

• The Weird Sisters – Eleanor Brown (reread)
• The Crime of Julian Wells – Thomas H. Cooke
• The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
• Chapter and Hearse and Other Mysteries – Catherine Aird
• The Beauty of Humanity Movement – Camila Gibb

February 2013

• Diving Belles: And Other Stories – Lucy Wood
• Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
• A Duty to the Dead – Charles Todd
• Murder at Mansfield Park – Lynn Shepard
• The Lantern – Deborah Lawrenson  (did not finish)
• Freud’s Sister – Goce Smilerski
• Swimming Home – Deborah Levy
• Moscow But Dreaming: Stories – Ekaterina Sadia
• The Old Man in the Corner – Baroness Emmuska Orczy

March 2013

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