2012 Books


A list to keep tabs on the 50-book goal for the year.

  1. And So It Goes by Charles J. Shields
  2. Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
  3. The Big Money by John Dos Passos
  4. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
  5. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  6. Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
  7. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
  8. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  9. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
  10. The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
  11. Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen
  12. The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
  13. The Cat’s Pajamas by Ray Bradbury
  14. The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
  15. Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
  16. Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
  17. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story by D.T. Max
  18. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
  19. St. Mawr by D.H. Lawrence
  20. Indignation by Philip Roth
  21. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf