I don't really know how I chose these books. I read Lee Child because he was on a list of favorite authors of Bill Clinton. There were advance copies I picked up at an ALA Conference. Most of the books were sitting on my own bookshelf. Friends gave me books. Some (but not the majority) were from the library. Some were books for our children's book club at work. Have to decide what my goal is for 2012.
- Hitty by Rachel Field
- Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
- Shit My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
- Bless This Mouse by Lois Lowry
- The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
- The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus by Sonya Sones
- When You Were Mine by Elizabeth Noble
- Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace
- Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
- The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
- Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown by Maud Hart Lovelace
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
- One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
- Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
- The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
- Belles on Their Toes by Ernestine and Frank Gilbreth
- Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
- Instead of a Letter: A Memoir by Diana Hill
- Falling Out of Fashion by Karen Yampolsky
- Bento Box in the Heartland by Linda Furiya
- Rat by Fernanda Eberstadt
- Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym
- Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- City of Light by Lauren Belfer
- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
- Hans Brinker of the Silver Skates by Mary Naples Dodge
- The River by Rumer Godden
- Indian Captive by Lois Lenski
- Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
- The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
- The Mango Season by Amulya Mauadi
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
- Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
- Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
- The Tall Woman by Wilma Dykeman
- Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
- Just Kids by Patti Smith
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Hegan Rice
- These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
- Dobry by Monica Shannon
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
- Love the One You're With by Emily Griffen
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
- A Year at the Races by Jane Smiley
- Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go by Dale Basye
- The No Assholes Rule by Robert Sutton
- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Are you Somebody by O'Faolain
- Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- Franklin and Eleanor by Hazel Rowley
- The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
- The Affair by Lee Child
- National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
- Wendy and the Lost Boys by Julie Salamon
- We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood by Emily Kimbrough
- My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
- Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspread
- The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
- All-Of-A-Kind Family Downtown by Sydney Taylor
