In keeping with my meticulous and slightly obsessive-compulsive record-keeping, here’s a list of everything I read in 2011. I use these lists to jog my memory when a certain plot sounds familiar but I just can’t recall if I’ve actually finished a certain book. More reviews to come!
1. So Much Closer by Susane Colasanti
2. Great House by Nicole Krauss
3. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
4. Room by Emma Donoghue
5. Safe From The Sea by Peter Geye
6. It’s A Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life In Your Twenties
7. Drinking Closer To Home by Jessica Anya Blau
8. Life From Scratch by Melissa Ford
9. Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott
10. The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
11. The Bright Side Of Disaster by Katherine Center
12. Textual Healing by Eric Smith
13. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
14. Clarity by Kim Harrington
15. The Liberation of Alice Love by Abby McDonald
16. Bumped by Megan McCafferty
17. Strings Attached by Judy Blundell
18. A Thread Of Sky by Deanna Fei
19. The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus by Sonya Sones
20. The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
21. Moonlight In Odessa by Janet Skeslien Charles
22. The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
23. Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
24. How To Love An American Man by Kristine Gasbarre
25. I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
26. Hothouse Flower by Margot Berwin
27. The Lost Girls by Baggett, Corbett and Pressner
28. The Bake-Off by Beth Kendrick
29. Other Words For Love by Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
30. O, Juliet by Robin Maxwell
31. The London Train by Tessa Hadley
32. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
33. Tales From My Hard Drive by Megan Karasch
34. Save As Draft by Cavanaugh Lee
35. Friendship Bread by Darien Gee
36. Wake by Lisa McMann
37. America Pacifica by Anna North
38. The Joke’s On Me by Laurie Boris
39. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
40. Pemberley Ranch by Jack Caldwell
41. It’s Hard Not To Hate You by Valerie Frankel
42. Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares
43. Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok
44. Broetry by Brian McGackin
45. 32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter
46. Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
47. Such A Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster
48. Tout Sweet by Karen Wheeler
49. It’s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han
50. Summer At Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
51. Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
52. Untold Story by Monica Ali
53. Forgetting English by Midge Raymond
54. The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
55. It Looked Different on the Model by Laurie Notaro
56. The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
57. The Kingdom of Childhood by Rebecca Coleman
58. I Love The 80s by Megan Crane
59. Don’t Sing At The Table by Adriana Trigiani
60. Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
61. Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan
62. Cross Currents by John Shors
63. Stay by Allie Larkin
64. Falling For Me by Anna David
65. Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson
66. The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
67. French Lessons by Ellen Sussman
68. Sleeping Arrangements by Madeleine Wickham
69. Camp Nine by Vivienne Schiffer
70. How To Save A Life by Sara Zarr
71. gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
72. Nice To Come Home To by Rebecca Flowers
73. The Bungalow by Sarah Jio
74. Mennonite In A Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
75. Downward Dog, Upward Fog by Meryl Davids Landau
76. You Know When The Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
77. Insatiable by Meg Cabot
78. Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman
79. The Chicktionary by Anna Lefler
80. High Maintenance by Jennifer Belle
81. We All Wore Stars by Theo Coster
82. Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson
83. Ali In Wonderland by Ali Wentworth