Books Read in 2012

Goal (125)

1. A Sense of an Ending; Julian Barnes (5/5) - literary fiction
2. Lethal; Sandra Brown - 4/5 (suspense - audio book)
3. The Girl Who Played With Fire; Stieg Larsson - 4/5 (books to movies)
4. Heft; Liz Moore - 4.5/5 (contemporary fiction)
5. The Odds: A Love Story; Stewart O'Nan - 4/5 (contemporary fiction) 
6. Home Front; Kristin Hannah - 3/5  (contemporary fiction  - audio book)
7. East of Eden; John Steinbeck - 5/5 (classic challenge - audio) 
8. The Invisible Ones; Stef Penney - 4/5 (arc/mystery) 
9. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother; Amy Chua - 4/5 (memoir) 
10. Catch Me; Lisa Gardner - 4/5 (psychological thriller) 
11. No Buddy Left Behind; Terri Crisp and Cindy Hurn - 5/5 (non fiction)
12. Fairy Tale Interrupted; Rose Marie Terenzio - 1/5 (eBook) 
13. We the Animals; Justin Torres (contemporary fiction - audio book) 
14. A Moveable Feast; Ernest Hemingway (memoir) - 4.5/5
15. Lone Wolf; Jodi Picoult (contemporary fiction - 5/5) 
16. Worth Fighting For; Lisa Niemi Swayze (memoir - 4/5)
17. The Beginner's Goodbye; Anne Tyler - 5/5 (contemporary fiction - review copy) 
18. Waiting for Sunrise; William Boyd - 4.5/5 (literary fiction- review copy) 
19. How To Babysit a Grandpa; Jean Reagan ( 5/5) (kids - eBook)
20. Small Bunny's Blue Blanket; Tatyana Feeney (4.5/5) (kids-eBook)
21. Dancing Feet; Lindsay Craig (5/5) (kids-eBook) 
22. The Night Bookmobile; Audrey Niffenberger - 4/5 ( 4/5 - graphic novel)
23. Hide and Seek; Il Sung Na - 4/5 (kids eBook)
24. I Like Old Clothes;  3.5/5 - (Kids - eBook)
25. Falcon; Tim Jessell - 5/5 - (kids - eBook)
26. Inch By Inch; Leo Lionni - 4.5/5 (kids eBook)
27. Travels With Charley in Search of America; John Steinbeck - 4/5 (audio/trade) 
28. A Ball for Daisy; Chris Rashchka - 4/5 (kids - library book)
29. Underground; Shane Evans - 5/5 - (kids library)
30. Horns; Joe Hill (audio) - 4/5 (audio) 
31. Old Bear; Kevin Henkes - 5/5 (kids library)
32. Fancy Nancy Clancy Super Sleuth; Jane O'Connor - 4.5/5 (eGalley) 
33. The Chicken Problem; Oxley and Aronson - 5/5 (eBook)
34. Where's Ellie?; Salina Yoon - 4.5/5 (eBook)
35. Quiet; Susan Cain (5/5) (audio & eBook) - (NF)
36. Uninvited Guests; Sadie Jones - 4/5
37. Lots of Candles Plenty of Cake; Anna Quindlen (5/5) - (memoir - eBook)
38. Defending Jacob; William Landay - 4.5/5 (audio and eBook) 
39. Calico Joe; John Grisham - 4/5 (ARC)
40. The Underside of Joy; Sere Prince Halverson  4.5/5 - (eBook) 
41. Woolbur; Leslie Helakowski = 4.5/5 (kids - library )
42. Odd Bird Out; Helga Bansch - 4/5 (kids-library)
43. The Busy Beaver; Nicholas Oldland - 5/5 (kids-library)
44. The Good Father; Noah Hawley 3.5/5 (ebook and audio)
45. An Uncommon Education; Elizabeth Percer - 3/5 (arc)
46. Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea; Morgan Callan Rogers - 4/5 (eGalley)
47. The Book of Jonas; Stephen Dau - 4/5 (audio download) 
48. The Lola Quartet; Emily St. John Mandel - 4/5 (eGalley) 
49. Blue Monday; Nicci French - 3/5 (eGalley) 
50. Carry the One; Carol Anshaw - 4/5 (ARC/audio)
    
51. The Replacement Wife; Eileen Goudge - 4/5 (eBook)
    
52. Say You're One of Them; Uwem Akpan - 4.5/5 (audio)
    
53. Bringing Up Bebe; Pamala Druckerman - 5/5 (audio)
54. Home; Toni Morrison - 4.5/5 (eBook)
55. The Gingerbread Girl; Stephen King - 3.5/5 (audio)
56. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats; Jan-Philipps Sendker  4.5/5 (eBook)
57. The Land of Decoration; Grace McCleen - 5/5 (ARC) 
58. I'll Save You Bobo!; Eileen and Mac Rosenthal - 3/5 (kids-library)
59. Cat Heaven; Cynthia Rylant - 4/5 (kids - library)
60. A House in the Woods' Inga Moore 5/5 (kids - library)
61. Neighborhood Watch; Cammie McGovern  4/5 - audio
62. UR; Stephen King - 4/5 (audio)
63. Monday Mornings; Sanjay Gupta 4/5 - (audio)
64. The Spectator Bird; Wallace Stegner 5/5) 
65. The Joy Fit Club: Cookbook, Diet Plan & Inspiration; Joy Bauer, MS RD (5/5) review
66. A Partial History of Lost Causes; Jennifer duBois 4/5 - (audio) 
67. Summer of the Gypsy Moths; Sara Pennypacker - 4/5 (kids-8+)
68. Picture This; Jacqueline Sheehan - 3.5/5 (eBook) 
69. Arcadia; Lauren Groff  - 3/5 (audio/eGalley)
70. Unsaid; Neil Abramson - 4.5/5 eGalley
71. Big Cat, Small Cat; Ami Rubinger - 4/5 (eBook)
72. Six-Dinner Sid; Inga Moore - 5/5 (Library)
73. Sneakers, the Seaside Cat;  Margaret Wise Brown - 4/5 (Library)
74. One Foot Two Feet: An Exceptional Counting Book; Maloney and Zekaukaus - 5/5
75. The Day Tiger Rose Said Goodbye; Yalon  - 5/5 (Library)
76. Northwest Corner; John Burnham Schwartz - 4/5 -  (HC - my shelf)
77. The Stand; Stephen King - 4/5 (eBook) (eBook)
78. In One Person; John Irving - 4/5 
79. A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty; Joshilyn Jackson - 5/5 
80. Gold; Chris Cleave - 4.5/5 (eGalley)  
81. The Healing; Jonathan O'Dell - 4.5/5 (audio and eGalley)
82. Snow Angels; Stewart O'Nan - 3.5/5 (audio) 
83. Drop Dead Healthy; A.J. Jacobs - 3.5/5 (audio) 
84. Translation of the Bones; Francesca Kay -5/5  (eBook) 
85. So Cold the River; Michael Koryta - 3.5/5 (audio) 
86. Canada; Richard Ford - 4.5/5 (audio and eGalley)
87. Heading Out to Wonderful; Robert Goolrick - 3.5/5 (eGalley and audio)
88. Use Your Brain to Change Your Age; 3.5/5 Dr Daniel Amen (audio)
89. January First; Schofield (NF) 4/5 - eGalley
90. The Innocent; Baldacci - 4/5 (audio)
91. Tell the Wolves I'm Home; Brunt - 5/5 (eGalley)
92. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry; Rachel Joyce - 5/5 (ARC)
93. The Folded Earth; Anuradha Roy - 3.5/5
94. The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving; Jonathan Evison - 4.5/5 (eGalley)
95. Broken Harbor; Tana French - 4.5/5 (eGalley)
96. The Sandcastle Girls; Chris Bohjalian - 4/5 (eGalley)
97. Love Anthony; Lisa Genova 3.5/5 (eGalley)
98. More; I.C. Springman - 5/5 (library-kids)
99. Extra Yarn; Mac Barnett - 4/5 (library-kids) 
100. 1-2-3 Peas; Keith Baker - 3/5 (for review-kids)
101. The Prisoner of Heaven; Carlos Ruiz Zafron - 3.5/5 (eGalley) 
102. My Brilliant Friend; Elena Ferrante -4/5 (eGalley) 
103. The Good Dream; Donna VanLiere - 4.5/5 (HC/personal copy)
104. The Chaperone; Laura Moriarty -  4/5 (audio/ARC )
105. The Human Bobby; Gabe Rotter - 4.5/5 - trade/personal copy
106. How the Trouble Started; Robert Williams - 4/5 - (eGalley)
107. The Red Pony; John Steinbeck 4/5 audio
108. Dark Side; Belinda Bauer - 3/5 (trade/personal copy)
109. Gone Girl; Gillian Flynn - 3/5 
110. A Beautiful Mystery; Louise Penny - 4/5 (audio) 
111. Winter of the World; Ken Follett - 4.5/5 audio and print
112. Comet's Tale; Steven Wolf and Lynette Pawdwa  - (eGalley) - 4/5
113. Peaches for Father Francis; Joanne Harris - 4/5 (eGalley)
114. The Bartender's Tale; Ivan Doig - 5/5 (eGalley and audiobook)
115. In the Tall Grass; Stephen King and Joe Hill (audio) - 3.5/5
116. The Round House; Louise Erdrich - 4.5/5 (eGalley) 
117. Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World; Sabina Berman - 4/5 (ARC)
118. Beautiful Ruins ; Jess Walters - 2.5/5 (audio) 
119. The Cure for Grief; Nellie Hermann - 4/5 
120. Live By Night; Dennis LeHane - 4.5/5 (audio and eGalley)
121. Flight Behavior; Barbara Kingsolver 4.5/5 (eGalley)
122. Joy for Beginners; Eric Bauermeister - 4.5/5 (audio) 
123. If You Spent a Day With Thoreau at Walden Pond; Burleigh and Minor - 5/5
124. Fancy Nancy, There's No Day Like a Snow Day; Jane O'Connor and Glasser - 4/5
125. The Christmas Quiet Book; Deborah Underwood and Liwska - 4.5/5 
126. Sally Sore Loser: A Story About Winning and Losing; Sileo and Pillo - 5/5 (library)
127. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories; Flannery O'Connor - 4.5/5 (personal copy)
128. Shadow Tag; Louise Erdrich - 4/5 (audio) 
129. NutCracker; E.T.A. Hoffman and Maurice Sendak - 4.5/5 
130. Cascade; Maureen O'Hara - 4.5/5 (eGalley) 
131. The Panther; Nelson DeMille - 4/5 (audio) 
132. The Light Between Oceans; ML Stedman (eGalley) - 4.5/5
133. It's Okay to Be Different; Todd Parr  - 5/5 (library)
134. Baby's Christmas; Esther and Eloise Wilkin - 3.5/5 (eGalley)
135. Little Owls Orange Scarf; Tatyana Feeney  - 4/5 (eGalley)
136. Bad Astrid; Eileen Brennan, Regan Dunnick - 4.5/5 (eGalley)
137. The End of Your Life Book Club; Will Schwalbe - 5/5 (audio-eGalley)
138. The Cat Who Came Back for Christmas; Julia Romp - 4/5 (eGalley)