books read in 2012

• A Long, Long Sleep by: Anna Sheehan [#11] ***
• And When She Was Good by: Laura Lippman [#27] ***
• Becoming Sister Wives by: Kody Brown and Wives [#26] ***
• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys [#20] ***
• Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by: Chelsea Handler [#36] **
• Crooked Letter Crooked Letter by: Tom Franklin [#2]****
• Dark Places by: Gillian Flynn [#38] ***
• Defending Jacob by: William Landay [#23] ****
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer [#13] **
• Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh [#3] ***
• Gone Girl by: Gillian Flynn [#33] ***
• Good Grief by: Lolly Winston [#5] ***
• Insurgent by Veronica Roth [#18] ***
• Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by: Mindy Kaling [#10] ***
• Kris Jenner ... and All Things Kardashian [#12] **
• Let It Go by: Chris Williams [#37] ***
• Love Times Three by Joe, Alina, Vicki and Valerie Darger with Brooke Adams [#4] ***
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by: Helen Simonson [#6] ****
• My Horizontal Life by: Chelsea Handler [#25] **
• Prized by: Caragh M. O'Brien [#9] ***
• Reached by: Ally Condie [#35] ***
• Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by: Beth Hoffman [#32] ****
• The Book Thief by: Marcus Zusak [#39] ***** [one of my all time favorite books!]
• The Casual Vacancy by: J.K. Rowling [#34] ****
• The Dovekeepers by: Alice Hoffman [#22] ****
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by: Stieg Larrson [#17] ***
• The Girl Who Played with Fire by: Stieg Larrson [#16] ***
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by: Stieg Larrson [#15] ***
• The Hunger Games by: Suzanne Collins [#14] ****
• The Maze Runner by: James Dashner [#21] ***
• The Night Circus by: Erin Morgenstern [#19] ****
• The Personal History of Rachel Dupree by: Ann Weisgarber [#1] ****
• The Things They Carried by: Tim O'Brien [#29] ****
• Tortured by: Caragh M. O'Brien [#8] ***
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand [#31] ****
• Variant by: Robison Wells [#7] ***
• Where We Belong by: Emily Giffin [#30] ***
• You Are The Love of My LIfe by: Susan Richards Shreve [#28] ***

by my count - that makes 39 books. my goal was 40. the last 2 weeks, i had a really hard time getting into books. i started and didn't finish about 5 books. oh well - it was close! again - i'm not going to link up to my goodreads account - i'm rating them as i remember right now. if you want to see my goodreads/immediate response to the book, go there. 

favorite books of the year: Crookied Letter Crooked Letter, Defending Jacob or The Night Circus... oh and Saving CeeCee Honeycut.

here's the last few years: 2011, 2010, 2009