Favorites of 2012: Women’s History & Women’s Studies
Favorites of 2012: Short Stories
Favorites of 2012: Miscellaneous
* Books marked with an asterisk were listened to on audiobook.
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
- The Condition by Jennifer Haigh
- The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You by Eli Pariser
- The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
- The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1 ed. by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel *
- Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson
- Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone by Eric Klinenberg
- Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber
- The Baker’s Daughter by Sarah McCoy
- Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts by Stacy A. Cordery
- The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace *
- Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement by F. Arturo Rosales
- Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
- Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry
- Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman
- Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William Kuhn
- Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale by Rachel Lloyd
- Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R. Miller
- The Turquoise Ledge by Leslie Marmon Silko
- The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines by Mike Madrid
- Helen Keller: A Life by Dorothy Herrmann *
- A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead
- Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein and Susan Kim
- Biting the Moon: A Memoir of Feminism and Motherhood by Joanne S. Frye
- Being Lara by Lola Jaye
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
- Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism ed. by Jessica Yee
- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
- When All That’s Left of Me is Love by Linda Campanella
- America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation by Elaine Tyler May
- Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
- The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media by Brooke Gladstone
- The Iguana Tree by Michel Stone
- Role Models by John Waters
- Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje *
- The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir by Wenguang Huang
- Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d’Art by Christopher Moore
- Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
- It Chooses You by Miranda July
- Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good by Kevin Smith
- Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
- Bossypants by Tina Fey *
- American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- Jackie After O by Tina Cassidy
- This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman *
- Home by Toni Morrison
- Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped by Dean Budnick and Josh Baron
- First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
- The Cranes Dance by Meg Howrey
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Anti-Romantic Child: A Memoir of Unexpected Joy by Priscilla Gilman
- I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag by Jennifer Gilbert
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman
- Second Person Singular by Sayed Kashua
- The Great Lenore by J.M. Tohline
- The Queen: A Life in Brief by Robert Lacey
- The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall
- Coming of Age on Zoloft: How Antidepressants Cheered Us Up, Let Us Down, and Changed Who We Are by Katherine Sharpe
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner *
- The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
- A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing by Alix Kates Shulman
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
- I Am An Executioner: Love Stories by Rajesh Parameswaran
- Fathermucker by Greg Olear
- As Texas Goes…:How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda by Gail Collins
- And Laughter Fell from the Sky by Jyotsna Sreenivasan
- The Bay of Foxes by Sheila Kohler
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern *
- Say Nice Things About Detroit by Scott Lasser
- The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue by Manuel Muñoz
- Shout Her Lovely Name by Natalie Serber
- Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
- Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott *
- Monstress by Lysley Tenorio
- Getting Married and Other Mistakes by Barbara Slate
- ¡Ban This! The BSP Anthology of Xican@ Literature ed. by Santino J. Rivera
- Amberville by Tim Davys
- Diving Belles by Lucy Wood
- The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Steadman
- How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
- The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam
- Lucretia and the Kroons by Victor LaValle
- Scenes from an Impending Marriage: A Prenuptial Memoir by Adrian Tomine
- Rabbit is Rich by John Updike *
- Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America by Gustavo Arellano
- This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
- A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards
- Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
- The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
- The Keep by Jennifer Egan
- Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- The End of Men: And the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin
- Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh *
- Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger
- Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J Rodríguez
- Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion *
- Falling Together by Marisa de los Santos
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck *
- Waiting for the Barbarians by Daniel Mendelsohn
- The Round House by Louise Erdrich
- Under Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book II by Colin Meloy
- Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain *
- Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love, and Fashion ed. by Virgie Tovar
- The Boy Kings of Texas by Domingo Martinez
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie *
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
- An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris by Stephanie LaCava
- Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America’s Kings of Beer by William Knoedelseder
- Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
- Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness ed. by Rebecca Walker
- The Innocents by Francesca Segal *
- When It Happens to You by Molly Ringwald
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple *
- Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption by Laura Briggs
- Arcadia by Lauren Groff
- The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 2 ed. by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce *
- Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen
- The Guy’s Guide to Feminism by Michael Kaufman & Michael Kimmel
- Our Kind of People by Uzodinma Iweala