2012 Reading List

Fiction

Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann

The Crying Tree: A Novel, Naseem Rakha

Fifty Shades Trilogy, E.L. James (I admit it, I broke down and read them. But only because Dr. Ruth encouraged me to.)

Little Bee, Chris Cleave

Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout

Rules of Civility: A Novel, Amor Towles

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith

Pope Joan: A Novel, Donna Woolfolk Cross

The Palace of Illusions: A Novel, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Stieg Larsson

The Help, Kathryn Stockett

The Heretic’s Daughter: A Novel, Kathleen Kent

Smasher: A Silicon Valley Thriller, Keith Raffel

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel, Lisa See

The Spectator Bird, Wallace Stegner

Non Fiction

Bad Mother, Ayelet Waldman

Drift, Rachel Maddow

Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide, Linda Babcock & Sara Laschever

The Blessing of a B Minus, Wendy Mogel

Community: The Structure of Belonging, Peter Block

MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend, Rachel Bertsche

Never Eat Alone – And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, Keith Ferrazzi

The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer

Young Adult Fiction

Bumped, Megan McCafferty

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Matched, Kim Edwards