What follows is a list of what I read in 2012, in reverse chronological order. Not all of the books were great, but there were definitely some gems among the bunch. Overall, I consider it a great year for reading. I’ve marked a few I think would be worth reading, in case you’re planning your reading list for 2013.
  1. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  2. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
  3. The Visible Man Chuck Klosterman
  4. Empire of the Sun J.G. Ballard
  5. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
  6. Incendiary by Chris Cleave
  7. The Litigators by John Grisham
  8. The Water Is Wide: A Memoir by Pat Conroy
  9. The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
  10. Untouchable by Scott O’Connor
  11. Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3) by Tana French
  12. Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman
  13. Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness by Pete Earley
  14. Yes, Chef: A Memoir by Marcus Samuelsson
  15. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  16. Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2) by Ken Follett
  17. World Without End (The Pillars of the Earth, #2) by Ken Follett
  18. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  19. Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon
  20. Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks
  21. Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3) by E.L. James
  22. The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon’s Court by Michelle Moran
  23. Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2) by E.L. James 24.
  24. Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1) by E.L. James
  25. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  26. Nemesis by Philip Roth
  27. Stealing Home (The Sweet Magnolias #1) by Sherryl Woods
  28. The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
  29. Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
  30. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  31. The Position by Meg Wolitzer
  32. The Healing by Jonathan Odell
  33. Insurgent (Divergent, #2) by Veronica Roth
  34. The Clothes On Their Backs by Linda Grant
  35. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
  36. The Wedding by Dorothy West
  37. The Queen’s Fool (The Tudor Court, #4) by Phillippa Gregory
  38. Divergent (Divergent, #1) by Veronica Roth
  39. Breaking the Food Seduction: The Hidden Reasons Behind Food Cravings—And 7 Steps to End Them Naturally by Neal D. Barnard
  40. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  41. All Fall Down by Megan Hart
  42. Best Friends by Martha Moody
  43. Every Time I Talk To Liston: A Novel by Brian DeVido
  44. A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay
  45. Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
  46. Sarmada by Fadi Azzam
  47. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
  48. Saving Max by Antoinette van Heugten
  49. Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
  50. My Lady of Cleves: A Novel of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves by Margaret Campbell Barnes
  51. Awake by Elizabeth Graver
  52. StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
  53. The Boleyn Inheritance (The Tudor Court, #3) by Phillippa Gregory
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