Read in 2012
1. Blue Nights -- Joan Didion, Jan. 2 (e-book, from library)
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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
