January
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Swimming by Nicola Keegan
The Financial Lives of Poets by Jess Walter
Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Imposter’s Daughter by Laurie Sandell
Stitches by David Small
What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
February
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Little Face by Sophie Hannah
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (love his writing)
Notting Hell by Rachel Johnson
The Gift of an Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
La’s Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann
I’m Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers by Tim Madigan
Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope
In the Driver’s Seat by Helen Simpson
The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer’s Life by Sid Fleischman
March
Family Album by Penelope Lively
Sweetwater by Roxana Robinson
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Janelle Brown
Consequences by Penelope Lively
Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays by Eula Biss
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
April
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah
Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
SuperFreakonomics by Steven Leavitt and Stephen Dubner
May
The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos
Remedies by Kate Ledger
Get Lucky by Katherine Center
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
November Grass by Judy Van Der Veer
The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain by Barbara Strauch
Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
For Kings and Planets by Ethan Canin
June
The Heights by Peter Hedges
We’ve Got Issues by Judith Warner
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner
The Lake Shore Limited by Sue Miller
July
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
Comfort: A Journey Through Grief by Ann Hood
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Burden of Proof by Scott Turow
Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison
