2012 in books

Books that I've read, as I read them! So many books, so little time.

1. The Effect of Living Backwards, Heidi Julavits
2. Betsy in Spite of Herself, Maud Hart Lovelace
3. What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going, Damion Searls
4. Stone Arabia, Dana Spiotta
5. The Colossus of New York, Colson Whitehead
6. The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West 
7. Betsy and Joe, Maud Hart Lovelace
8. I Married You for Happiness, Lily Tuck
9. Silas Marner, George Eliot
10. Betsy and the Great World, Maud Hart Lovelace
11. Betsy's Wedding, Maud Hart Lovelace
12. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
13. Carney's House Party, Maud Hart Lovelace
14. No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July
15. Winona's Pony Cart, Maud Hart Lovelace
16. The Map of Time, Felix J. Palma 
17. Rules of Civility, Amor Towles
18. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
19. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane
20. The Deepening Stream, Dorothy Canfield
21. Treasure Island!!!, Sara Levine
22. Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
23. The Colors of Infamy, Albert Cossery
24. Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World, Sara Vowell
25. The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett
26. Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan
27. Phases of an Inferior Planet, Ellen Glasgow
28. The Magician King, Lev Grossman 
29. The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal
30. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner 
31. Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
32. Pointed Roofs, Dorothy Richardson
33. The Zookeeper's Wife, Diane Ackerman
34. Amsterdam Stories, Nescio
35. My Next Bride, Kay Boyle 
36. The Hangman's Daughter, Oliver Potsch
37. Mary Olivier: A Life, May Sinclair
38. Marking the Sparrow's Fall, Wallace Stegner 
39. The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them, Elif Batuman
40. The Luminist, David Rocklin 
41. New Grub Street, George Gissing
42. The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience, J. S. Holliday
43. Half Empty, David Rakoff 
44. The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
45. When I Was A Child I Read Books, Marilynne Robinson 
46. Hope: A Tragedy, Shalom Auslander 
47. Lightning Rods, Helen DeWitt
48. Adam Bede, George Eliot
49. Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates 
50. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
51. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
52. Miss Lulu Bett, Zona Gale 
53. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, Katherine Boo 
54. Friendship Village, Zona Gale
55. The Newlyweds, Nell Freudenberger
56. The Easter Parade, Richard Yates
57. Best Russian Short Stories, various authors 
58. In the Mountains, Elizabeth von Arnim
59. The Children's Book, A. S. Byatt
60. Talion, Mary Maddox 
61. Midsummer Night in the Workhouse, Diana Athill 
62. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Aimee Bender
63. Howards End, E. M. Forster 
64. The Artist of Disappearance, Anita Desai 
65. The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold, Kate Bernheimer
66. Miss Fuller, April Bernard
67. The Californians, Gertrude Atherton 
68. As If A Bird Flew By Me, Sara Greenslit
69. What Dreams May Come, Gertrude Atherton
70. My Ears Are Bent, Joseph Mitchell
71. Anywhere But Here, Mona Simpson
72. Queen Lucia, E. F. Benson 
73. As a Friend, Forrest Gander
74. Ayiti, Roxane Gay 
75. Emily of Deep Valley, Maud Hart Lovelace 
76. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett
77. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain 
78. The End of Everything, Megan Abbott
79. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot 
80. The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson 
81. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector 
82. A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers
83. On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet, Luree Miller (in progress)
84. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, T. J. Stiles (in progress)