"When you open a book," the sentimental library posters said, "anything can happen." This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was a land mine you wanted to go off. You wanted it to blow your whole day. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of books were duds. They had been rusting out of everyone's way for so long that they no longer worked. There was no way to distinguish the duds from the live mines except to throw yourself at them headlong, one by one. --Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

I would like to live to be a hunded because loving and being loved are so good and there are so many books; but were I to learn now that I had only a week left, I would finish today's spell of writing, have the cup of coffee that I crave and go on with the one book I'm reading. --John Tittensor, Year One: A Record

2012

DECEMBER 2012
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Rachel Held Evans

NOVEMBER 2012
The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin

OCTOBER 2012
We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider

SEPTEMBER 2012
The Hidden Messages in Water, Masaru Emoto

AUGUST 2012
The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett
The Mansion of Happiness, Jill Lepore

JULY 2012
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Margot Livesy
Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan
The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker

JUNE 2012
The Naming, Alison Groggon
Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock

MAY 2012
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente

APRIL 2012
Girl Land, Caitlin Flanagan
Magyk, Angie Sage
Flyte, Angie Sage

MARCH 2012
Metapatterns Across Space, Time, and Mind, Tyler Volk
Before Midnight, Cameron Dokey
Hush, Donna Jo Napoli
The Princetta, Anne-Laure Bondoux
Magic Study, Maria V. Snyder

FEBRUARY 2012
My Name is Mina, David Almond
Poison Study, Maria V. Snyder
Zel, Donna Jo Napoli
American Gods, Neil Gaiman

JANUARY 2012
The Empty Family, Colm Toibin
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
The Hedgewitch Queen, Lilith Saintcrow

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