December
House of Leaves, Mark L. Danielewski
The Seagulls Woke Me, Mary Stolz
The Brontes Went to Woolworth’s, Rachel Ferguson
The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
Can Any Mother Help Me?, Jenna Bailey
November
The Well and the Mine, Gin Phillips
The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare
Richard III, William Shakespeare
The Wordy Pilgrims, Sarah Vowell
Henry VI, Part 3, William Shakespeare
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
October
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, Kate Summerscale
Crocodile on the Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters
Sorcery and Cecelia, Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer
Magician’s Ward, Patricia C. Wrede
Silent in the Grave, Deanna Raybourn
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia C. Wrede
In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1899 – 1936, ed. Barbara Reynolds
September
West with the Night, Beryl Markham
Mothering Sunday, Noel Streatfeild
Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, Josh Neufeld
A Vicarage Family and On Tour, Noel Streatfeild
the Griffin and Sabine trilogy, Nick Bantock
The Quest of the Fair Unknown, Gerald Morris
The Squire’s Tale, Gerald Morris
Gig, eds. John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, and Sabin Streeter
The Girl in a Swing, Richard Adams
The Ask and the Answer, Patrick Ness
I’m Looking Through You, Jennifer Finney Boylan
Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger
The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland, ed.
August
Bayou, Volume 1, Jeremy Love & Patrick Morgan
Slave and Citizen: A Life of Frederick Douglass, Nathan Irvin Huggins & Oscar Handlin
84 Charing Cross Road and The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Sex and the Soul, Donna Freitas
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Palimpsest, Catherynne Valente
Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
The Josie Gambit, Mary Frances Shura
The Lady’s Not for Burning, Christopher Fry
Buffy comics up to Time of Your Life, by all sorts of people including Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
Iran: A People Interrupted, Hamid Dabashi
The Robe of Skulls, Vivian French
July
The Coachman Rat, David Henry Wilson
Children Who See Too Much, Betsy McAlister Groves
Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag
Stolen Voices, Zlata Filipovic & Melanie Challenger, eds.
The Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies
The Thirteenth Child, Patricia C. Wrede
River of Darkness, Rennie Airth
Censoring an Iranian Love Story, Shahriar Mandanipour
The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
Sister Light, Sister Dark, Jane Yolen
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
Forbidden Fruit, Mark D. Regnerus
Fire from Heaven, Mary Renault
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
The Patron Saint of Butterflies, Cecilia Galante
The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness
Smoke and Mirrors, Barbara Michaels
The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
Ordinary Victories, Manu Larcenet
Fables: Arabian Nights (and Days), Bill Willingham
C.S. Lewis: Letters to Children
Reinventing Comics, Scott McCloud
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
June
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, Katherine Howe
Devil-May-Care, Elizabeth Peters
The Love Talker, Elizabeth Peters
Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud
My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
A History of Psychiatry, Edward Shorter
The Witch of Portobello, Paulo Coehlo
The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (trans.)
The House at Riverton, Kate Morton
May
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling
Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation, Martin Millar
A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
Thames: Sacred River, Peter Ackroyd
Life As We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Death Collector, Justin Richards
The Genie of Sutton Place, George Selden
Mother Come Home, Paul Hornschemeier
The Savage, David Almond and Dave McKean
Feeling Like a Kid, Jerry Griswold
Have His Carcase, Dorothy Sayers
Time at the Top, Edward Ormondroyd
Travel Far, Pay No Fare, Anne Lindbergh
Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy Sayers
Love and Friendship, Alison Lurie
The Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster
Winter Rose, Patricia McKillip
Sima’s Undergarments for Women, Ilana Stanger-Ross
April
Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary, Pamela Dean
The Case of Madeleine Smith, Rick Geary
The Shooting Party, Isabel Colegate
Death: The High Cost of Living, Neil Gaiman
The Queen of Spells, Dahlov Ipcar
The Court of the Air, Stephen Hunt
Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden
Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy
The Ordinary Princess, M.M. Kaye
Well Wished, Franny Billingsley
The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox
The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury
Walking Through Walls, Philip Smith
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O’Farrell
The Elfish Gene, Mark Barrowcliffe
Accidentally on Purpose, Mary Pols
Those Who Hunt the Night, Barbara Hambly
March
The New Moon with the Old, Dodie Smith
An Inconvenient Wife, Megan Chance
100 Bullets: The Counterfifth Detective, Bill Azzarello et. al.
A Far Cry from Kensington, Muriel Spark
Fables: All the Other Ones, Bill Willingham et. al.
Fables: The Mean Seasons, Bill Willingham et. al.
The Dancers of Sycamore Street, Julie L’Enfant
The Child that Books Built, Francis Spufford
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
Thursday’s Children, Rumer Godden
February
The Servants, Michael Marshall Smith
The Fire Fighter, Francis Cottam
Joy Street, Michael T. Wise, ed.
Broadcasts from the Blitz, Philip Seib
9 of 1: A Window to the World, Oliver Chin
The Children’s War, Monique Charlesworth
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
January
In the Springtime of the Year, Susan Hill
Virgin: An Untouched History, Hanne Blank
Year of the Griffin, Diana Wynne Jones
The Dark Lord of Derkholm, Diana Wynne Jones
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman
Rereading Sex, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
The Shadow in the North, Philip Pullman
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates