These are books I’ve read this year:
January
1. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (Illustrated by Jules Feiffer)
2. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
3. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
4. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
5. Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
6. A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, ed. Susannah Carson
February
7. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
8. Both Flesh and Not, essays by David Foster Wallace
9. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
10. The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas*
12. Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
13. A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver (Introduction by Tess Gallagher)
14. The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
March
15. Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
16. Just One Day by Gayle Forman
17. The Book of Other People, edited by Zadie Smith
18. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
19. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
20. Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor
April
21. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
22. The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
23. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
May
24. Where She Went by Gayle Forman
25. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
26. Graceling by Kristin Cashore
27. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown
28. How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman
June
29. This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith
30. The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen
31. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
32. The Avery Shaw Experiment by Kelly Oram
33. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
34. No one belongs here more than you. by Miranda July
35. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
36. Light Boxes by Shane Jones
July
37. Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
38. Someone Like You by Roald Dahl
39. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
40. A Matter of Life by Jeffrey Brown
41. This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
42. Lost Voices by Sarah Porter*
43. My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
44. Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
45. The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
August
46. Saga: Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
47. Saga: Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
48. City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte
*Unfinished/ set aside
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