"If the God you believe in as an idea doesn’t start showing up in what happens to you in your own life, you have as much cause for concern as if the God you don’t believe in as an idea does start showing up. It is absolutely crucial, therefore, to keep in constant touch with what is going on in your own life’s story and to pay close attention to what is going on in the stories of others’ lives. If God is present anywhere, it is in those stories that God is present. If God is not present in those stories, then they are scarcely worth telling." ~ Frederick Buechner

2012 Books


NOVEMBER
Trouble Don't Last, Shelley Pearsall

OCTOBER
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
Cloister Walk, Kathleen Norris
Paint the Wind, Pam Munoz Ryan
Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, Louis Sachar

SEPTEMBER
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire
Gold, Chris Cleave

AUGUST
Yes, Chef: Marcus Samuelsson  
When She Woke, Hillary Jordan 
Mudbound,  Hillary Jordan
When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
Dead End in Norvelt, Jack Gantos
Kira-Kira, Cynthia Kadohata
Moon over Manifest, Clare Vanderpool
The Higher Power of Lucky, Susan Patron
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!, Laura Amy Schlitz
A Conspiracy of Friends, Alexander McCall Smith

JULY
Boys Should Be Boys, Meg Meeker
One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp
Confessions of a French Baker, Peter Mayle
All is Grace, Brennan Manning
Hotel Pastis, Peter Mayle
Acquired Tastes, Peter Mayle

JUNE
Acedia and Me, Kathleen Norris
Little Girls in Church, Kathleen Norris
Loving the Little Years, Rachel Jankovic

MAY
Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
Drop Dead Healthy, A.J. Jacobs
Almost Amish, Nancy Sleeth
The Guinea Pig Diaries, A.J. Jacobs

APRIL
The Know-It-All, A.J. Jacobs
bloom: finding beauty in the unexpected, Kelle Hampton  

MARCH
Kisses from Katie, Katie Davis
Unorthodox, Deborah Feldman
Wringer, Jerry Spinelli
The Girlfriend's Guide to Toddlers, Vickie Iovine 
Ya-Yas in Bloom, Rebecca Wells

FEBRUARY
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, Loung Ung (unfinished)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

JANUARY
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Helen Simonson
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Anne Barrows
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver (unfinished)
Courageous, Randy Alcorn
The Middle Place, Kelly Corrigan 
Lift, Kelly Corrigan
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman

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