Books Read 2012

January 2012

• Roy, Gabrielle. Children of My Heart.
• Laurence, Margaret. The Diviners.
• Atwood, Margaret.  Oryx and Crake.

February 2012

• Laurence, Margaret.  A Jest of God.
• Laurence, Margaret.  The Fire-Dwellers.
• Chopin, Kate.  The Awakening.
• Munro, Alice.  "The View from Castle Rock" (short fiction from collection of the same name)
• Schoemperlen, Diane.  At a Loss for Words.

April 2012

• Collins, Suzanne.  The Hunger Games.
• Collins, Suzanne.  Catching Fire.
• Collins, Suzanne.  Mockingjay.

June 2012

• Lee, Harper.  To Kill a Mockingbird. 
• O'Faolain, Nuala.  Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman.
• Birdsall, Jeanne.  The Penderwicks at Pointe Mouette.
• Stockett, Kathryn.  The Help.

July 2012

• Brashares, Ann.  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
• Brashares, Ann.  The Second Summer of the Sisterhood.
• Brashares, Ann.  Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood.
• Brashares, Ann.  Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood.
• Read, Miss.  Mrs Pringle of Fairacre.
• Smith, Alexander McCall.  The Sunday Philosophy Club.

August 2012

• McEwan, Ian.  Atonement.
• Laney, Marti Olsen.  The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World.
• Honore, Carl.  Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting.

September 2012

• Souter, Gillian.  Slow Journeys: The Pleasures of Travelling by Foot.
• Hoelting, Kurt.  The Circumference of Home: One Man's Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life.
• Shankar, Wendy.  Are You My Guru?: How Medicine, Meditation, & Madonna Saved My Life.
• Mayle, Peter.  A Year in Provence.

October 2012

• Murphy, Dervla.  Wheels Within Wheels.
• Williamson, Kate T.  A Year in Japan.
• Keane, Molly.  Good Behaviour.
• Wilson, David A.  Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle.
• Enright, Anne.  The Gathering.
• West, Rebecca.  The Return of the Soldier.
• Hill, Susan.  Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home.
• Austen, Jane.  Persuasion.
• Shields, Carol.  Jane Austen.
• Keane, Molly.  Devoted Ladies.
• Smith, Dodie.  I Capture the Castle.
• Richler, Nancy.  The Imposter Bride.

November 2012

• Davies, Robertson.  Fifth Business.
• Ozma, Alice.  The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared.
• Toibin, Colm.  Brooklyn.
• Richler, Mordecai.  The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
• Flinn, Alex.  Beastly.
• Bainbridge, Beryl.  The Bottle Factory Outing.
• Craven, Margaret.  I Heard the Owl Call My Name.
• Hémon, Louis.  Maria Chapdelaine.
• Ross, Sinclair.  The Painted Door. 
• Lindbergh, Anne Morrow.  Gift from the Sea.
• Lively, Penelope.  City of the Mind.
• Foster, Thomas C.  How To Read Literature Like a Professor.
• Watson, Winifred.  Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.

December 2012

• Hemingway, Ernest.  The Sun Also Rises.
• Taylor, Elizabeth.  Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont.
•  Prose, Francine.  Reading Like a Writer.
• Gaskell, Elizabeth.  North and South. (Part One) (Part Two) (Part Three) (Part Four)
• Leacock, Stephen.  "We Have With Us Tonight." (short fiction from My Discovery of England)
• Leacock, Stephen.  "A, B, and C: The Human Element in Mathematics" (short fiction from Literary Lapses)
• Traill, Catharine Parr.  "The Bereavement" (short work from The Literary Garland)
• Thurber, James.  "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (short fiction)
• Henry, O.  "The Furnished Room" (short fiction)
• Henry. O.  "The Ransom of Red Chief" (short fiction)
• Montgomery, L. M.  "The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's" (short fiction from Chronicles of Avonlea)
• Wilson, Ethel.  "We Have to Sit Opposite" (short fiction)
• Shields, Carol.  "The Orange Fish" (short fiction from The Orange Fish) 
• Chekhov, Anton.  "Vanka" (short fiction)
• Hospital, Janette Turner.  "Here and Now" (short fiction)
• Huggan, Isabel.  "Celia Behind Me"(short fiction)

2012 Totals:

69 titles read (55 books + 14 works of short fiction)
Fiction Books 40 (13 Contemporary; 10 Classics; 10 Canadian; 7 Children)
Non-fiction Books 15 (9 Memoirs; 5 General Non-fiction; 1 Biography)
Source (60 owned v. 9 library books)