Books Read 2012

Newest on top, aka reverse chronological order ;-)
Also, I only count books I've read in full. Any that I didn't finish (which happens very rarely) or that I read only selections from (like short story collections) don't get added. My star system is explained here.

December
91. Wild Seed, Octavia Butler***
90. Lady Knight, Tamora Pierce****
89. Squire, Tamora Pierce*****
88. Trickster's Choice, Tamora Pierce****
87. First Test, Tamora Pierce****
86. Letters from Black America, Edited by Pamela Newkirk*****
85. Page, Tamora Pierce****
84. Our Gleaming Bone Unrobed, Grant Loveys***
83. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier****
82. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara
 Ehrenreich**** 
81. The Upstairs Room, Johanna Reiss***

November
80. Mathilda, Mary Shelley****
79. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs****
78. I Will Marry When I Want, Ngugi wa Thiong'o & Ngugi wa Mirii****

77. Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier***
76. Last Night I Dreamed of Peace, Dang Thuy Tram***
75. Good Bones and Simple Murders, Margaret Atwood****
74. Girls Against Girls, Bonnie Burton**

October
73. Divergent, Veronica Roth***
72. Matched, Ally Condie***
71. The Orchardist, Amanda Coplin***
70. State of Wonder, Ann Patchett***
69. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters****
68. Alcestiad, Thorton Wilder****
67. Kindred, Octavia Butler***
66. A Child's Life, Phoebe Gloeckner****
65. The Secret River, Kate Grenville**

September
64. The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater****
63. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury***
62. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro*****
61. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman****
60. Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl****
59. My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, Edited by Kate Bernheimer**
58. The Road, Cormac McCarthy****
57. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton****

August
56. A Palace in the Old Village, Tahar Ben Jelloun***
55. Dust Tracks on a Road, Zora Neale Hurston****
54. Brother, I'm Dying, Edwidge Danticat*****
53. Poetry After 9/11, Edited by Dennis Loy Johnson****
52. I Married a Communist, Philip Roth***
51. Blue Horizons, Beth A. Leonard***
50. 
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston***** 
49. Lamb, Christopher Moore**
48. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank*****
47. Emily Post on Entertaining, Elizabeth L. Post***
46. The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman***

July
45. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot****
44. Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery*****
43. Are You My Mother?, Alison Bechdel*****
42. Unbearable Lightness, Portia de Rossi***
41. The Devil in White City, Erik Larson****

40. Butterfly Burning, Yvonne Vera****

June
39. Medium Raw, Anthony Bourdain****
38. Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko*****
37. The Hanging of Angeligue, Afua Cooper*****
36. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris**
35. The Good Muslim, Tahmima Anam***

May
34. Miral, Rula Jebreal**
33. Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes***
32. Every Last One, Anna Quindlen***
31. The Rover, Aphra Behn***
30. Americus, MK Reed (graphic novel)***

April
29. The Book of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pizan***
28. Mastiff, Tamora Pierce*****
27. Maps, Nuruddin Farah****
26. The Realm of the Gods, Tamora Pierce****
25. Aya of Yop City, Marguerite Abouet (graphic novel)****
24. Emperor Mage, Tamora Pierce****
23. Wolf-Speaker, Tamora Pierce***

March
22. How to Become a Rainmaker, Jeffrey J. Fox***
21. City of Thieves, David Benioff*****
20. Feminism FOR REAL, Edited by Jessica Yee****
19. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories, Charlotte Perkins Gilman*****

February
18. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez***
17. No Ordinary Matter, Jenny McPhee****
16. Feminism is for Everybody, bell hooks***
15. Come in and Cover Me, Gin Phillips (audiobook)***
14. Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz****

13. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass****

January
12. Generation X, Douglas Coupland***
11. Voyage Along the Horizon, Javier MarĂ­as****
10. Radioactive, Lauren Redniss (graphic novel)****
9. Beethoven: The Universal Composer, Edmund Morris***
8. Then Came You, Jennifer Weiner***
7. Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood*****
6. The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck****
5. Wild Magic, Tamora Pierce***
4. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck***
3. Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, Barbara Ehrenreich***
2. Swamplandia!, Karen Russell***
1. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides****