December
White is for Magic, Laurie faria Stolarz
Blue is for Nightmares, Laurie faria Stolarz
Sisterhood Interrupted, Deborah Siegel
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
After the Falls, Catherine Gildiner
The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
November
The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt
The Hand That First Held Mine, Maggie O’Farrell
The Sirens of Baghdad, Yasmin Khadra
The War That Killed Achilles, Caroline Alexander
Three Empires on the Nile: Egypt 1869-1899, Dominic Green
The Sealed Letter, Emma Donohue
October
The Fencer Trilogy, K. J. Parker
Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party, Paul Alkebulan
Alfred Douglas: A Poet’s Life and His Finest Work, Caspar Wintermans
Room, Emma Donoghue (I read it too but I just didn’t tell y’all about it)
September
Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
American Furies, Sasha Abramsky
The Fall of Rome, Martha Southgate
The Magicians and Mrs. Quent, Galen Beckett
The Tapestry of Love, Rosy Thornton
The Exception, Christian Jungersen
The Rock and the River, Kekla Magoon
Devices and Desires, K. J. Parker
Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta
Here Lies Arthur, Philip Reeve
August
Purple and Black, K. J. Parker
More than Just Race, William Julius Wilson
The Caliph’s House, Tahir Shah
Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon
Dark Quartet, Lynne Reid Banks
When We Were Romans, Matthew Kneale
Runaways, Brian Vaughn and Adrian Adolpha
Suite Scarlett, Maureen Johnson
Their Finest Hour and a Half, Lissa Evans
It Ends with Revelations, Dodie Smith
The Incident Report, Martha Baillie
Dead from the Waist Down, A. D. Nuttall
The Stoic in Love, A. D. Nuttall
Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity, William V. Harris
Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over Here, Juliet Gardiner
Curse of the Wolf Girl, Martin Millar
Kind Are Her Answers, Mary Renault
The Crown of Dalemark, Diana Wynne Jones
The Spellcoats, Diana Wynne Jones
Drowned Ammet, Diana Wynne Jones
Cart and Cwidder, Diana Wynne Jones
July
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Angels of Albion, Jane Robinson
Promises of Love, Mary Renault
The Purity Myth, Jessica Valenti
Wartime: Britain, 1939-1945, Juliet Gardiner
The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis, ed. and trans. Martin Moynihan
Talking about Detective Fiction, P. D. James
Diary of a Provincial Lady, E. M. Delafield
June
Reading Angel: The TV Spin-Off with a Soul, ed. Stacey Abbott
The West Wing: The American Presidency as Television Drama, ed. Peter C. Rollins & John E. O’Connor
The Uses of Enchantment, Bruno Bettelheim
A Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner
Beyond the Vicarage, Noel Streatfeild
The White Road, Lynn Flewelling
Love and Rockets, the Hernandez Brothers
The King of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner
The Queen of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner
The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner
May
An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
Tennis Shoes, Noel Streatfeild
On the Origin of Stories, Brian Boyd
Trying to Get Some Dignity: Stories of Triumph Over Childhood Abuse, Richard & Ginger Rhodes
The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan
When the Sirens Wailed, Noel Streatfeild
The Exiles and The Exiles at Home, Hilary McKay
Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones
House of Many Ways, Diana Wynne Jones
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
After You’d Gone, Maggie O’Farrell
April
The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett
Mendoza in Hollywood, Kage Baker
Poppy Shakespeare, Clare Allan
In the Garden of Iden, Kage Baker
Better than Running at Night, Hilary Frank
Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat
River in the Sky, Elizabeth Peters
Daughter of the Blood, Anne Bishop
March
Enlightened Sexism, Susan Douglas
Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
Broken Glass Park, Alina Bronsky, translated by Tim Mohr
The Unlikely Disciple, Kevin Roose
Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy
Yes Means Yes!, eds. Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
The Grand Sophy, Georgette Heyer
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, Susan Jane Gilman
February
White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi
Marcelo in the Real World, Francisco X. Stork
The Vintner’s Luck, Elizabeth Knox
The Opposite House, Helen Oyeyemi
Gunnerkrigg Court, Tom Siddell
The Icarus Girl, Helen Oyeyemi
The Unwritten, Vol. 1, Mike Carey and Peter Goss
Fire and Hemlock, Diana Wynne Jones
Clara Callan, Richard B. Wright
Deep Secret, Diana Wynne Jones
January
Peter and Max, Bill Willingham
The First Part Last, Angela Johnson
Don’t Sleep There Are Snakes, Daniel Everett
Conrad’s Fate, Diana Wynne Jones
The Lives of Christopher Chant, Diana Wynne Jones
Charmed Life, Diana Wynne Jones
The Moonflower Vine, Jetta Carleton
Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, adapted & illustrated by P. Craig Russell
Power of Three, Diana Wynne Jones
One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding, Rebecca Mead
Watching the English, Kate Fox
Ordinary Victories: What Is Precious, Manu Larcenet
The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch, Neil Gaiman & Michael Zulli
Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare