December
- Boo, Katherine: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (narrative nonfiction)
- Semple, Maria: Where’d You Go, Bernadette (fiction)
- Heller, Jason: Taft 2012 (fiction)
- Cullen, Dave: Columbine (nonfiction)
- Hoffert, Melanie: Prairie Silence (memoir)
- Condie, Ally: Matched, Crossed, and Reached (YA fiction)
- Collins, Gail: As Texas Goes… (nonfiction)
- Kidder, Tracy and Todd, Richard: Good Prose (nonfiction)
November
- Yalom, Marilyn: How the French Invented Love (nonfiction)
- McDougall, Christopher: Born to Run (narrative nonfiction)
- Harkaway, Nick: Angelmaker (fiction)
October
- Reiss, Tom: The Black Count (narrative nonfiction)
- Rapkin, Mickey: Pitch Perfect (narrative nonfiction)
- Hartman, Rachel: Seraphina (YA fantasy)
- Gladstone, Brooke: The Influencing Machine (nonfiction/comic)
- Leto, Lauren: Judging a Book By Its Lover (nonfiction)
- Rowling, J.K.: The Casual Vacancy (fiction)
- Cahalan, Susannah: Brain on Fire (narrative nonfiction)
September
- Vaill, Amanda: Everybody Was So Young (narrative nonfiction)
- Issenberg, Sasha: The Victory Lab (nonfiction)
- Parini, Jay: The Passages of H.M. (fiction)
- Parini, Jay: The Last Station (fiction)
- Torregrosa, Luisita Lopez: Before the Rain (memoir)
- Johnson, Steven: Future Perfect (nonfiction)
- Witchel, Alex: All Gone (memoir)
- Fey, Tina: Bossypants (memoir/audiobook)
August
- Winters, Ben: The Last Policeman (fiction/audiobook)
- Straub, Emma: Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures (fiction)
- Flynn, Gillian: Gone Girl (fiction)
- Nunberg, Geoffrey: Ascent of the A-Word (nonfiction)
- Povich, Lynn: The Good Girls Revolt (memoir)
- Brooks, Joanna: The Book of Mormon Girl (memoir)
- Gillizza, Chris: The Gospel According to The Fix (nonfiction)
- Rosin, Hanna: The End of Men (nonfiction)
- Heilemann, John and Halperin, Mark: Game Change (nonfiction/audiobook)
July
- Cline, Ernest: Ready Player One (fiction/audiobook)
- Lepore, Jill: The Mansion of Happiness (nonfiction)
- Morgenstern, Erin: The Night Circus (fiction)
- Tartt, Donna: The Secret History (fiction)
- Moran, Caitlin: How to Be a Woman (memoir)
- Rogan, Charlotte: The Lifeboat (fiction)
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby (fiction)
- Shipstead, Maggie: Seating Arrangements (fiction)
- Grossman, Lev: Codex (fiction)
- Berk, Justin: The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin (fiction)
June
- du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca (fiction)
- Massie, Robert K.: Catherine the Great (nonfiction)
- French, Paul: Midnight in Peking (narrative nonfiction)
- Stone, Alex: Fooling Houdini (narrative nonfiction)
- Iversen, Kristen: Full Body Burden (narrative nonfiction)
- Jones, Tayari: Silver Sparrow (fiction)
- Van Booy, Simon: Everything Beautiful Began After (fiction)
- Lawson, Jenny: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (memoir/audio book)
- Towles, Amor: Rules of Civility (fiction)
- Sharpe, Katherine: Coming of Age on Zoloft (nonfiction)
May
- Simon, David: Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (narrative nonfiction)
- Gottschall, Jonathan: The Storytelling Animal (nonfiction)
- Fox, John: The Ball (nonfiction)
- Russell, Mary Doria: The Sparrow (fiction)
- Hartman, Ellen: The Long Shot (fiction – romance)
- Vanderkam, Laura: All the Money in the World (nonfiction)
- Heller, Joseph: Catch-22 (fiction)
- Henkin, Joshua: The World Without You (fiction)
- Lewis-Kraus, Gideon: A Sense of Direction (memoir)
- Diffenbaugh, Vanessa: The Language of Flowers (fiction)
April
- Green, John: The Fault in Our Stars (YA fiction)
- Krist, Gary: City of Scoundrels (nonfiction)
- Gawande, Atul: Complications (memoir)
- Davis-Gardner, Angela: Butterfly’s Child (fiction)
- Peters, Elizabeth: Crocodile on the Sandbank (fiction/mystery)
- Martin, George R.R.: Clash of Kings (fiction/fantasy)
- Speart, Jessica: Winged Obsession (narrative nonfiction)
- Moriarty, Laura: The Chaperone (fiction)
- Nicholls, Davis: One Day (fiction/audio book)
- Lancaster, Jen: Bitter is the New Black (memoir)
- Ozma, Alice: The Reading Promise (memoir)
- Bergstein, Rachelle: Women From the Ankle Down (nonfiction)
- Miller, Jennifer: The Year of the Gadfly (fiction)
- Fadiman, Anne: Ex Libris (essays)
March
- Huffman, Alan and Rejebian, Michael: We’re With Nobody (nonfiction)
- Danticat, Edwidge (editor): Best American Essays 2011 (essays)
- McCourt, D.E.: Notes from the Firehouse (memoir)
- Reding, Nick: Methland (narrative nonfiction)
- Arvin, Nick: The Reconstructionist (fiction)
- Shadid, Anthony: House of Stone (memoir)
- King, Gilbert: Devil in the Grove (nonfiction)
- Strayed, Cheryl: Wild (memoir)
- Kapur, Akash: India Becoming (narrative nonfiction)
- Groff, Lauren: The Monsters of Templeton (fiction)
February
- Kaling, Mindy: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) (essays/memoir)
- Konietzko, Bryan: Avatar The Last Airbender: The Lost Adventures (fiction, graphic novel)
- Kaku, Michio: Physics of the Future (nonfiction)
- Harris, Alissa: Raised Right (memoir)
- Cain, Susan: Quiet (nonfiction)
- Lancaster, Jen: My Fair Lazy (memoir)
- Livesey, Margot: The Flight of Gemma Hardy (fiction)
- Chazen, Jerome: My Life at Liz Claiborne (memoir)
- Larson, Erik: In the Garden of Beasts (narrative nonfiction)
- Zuckoff, Mitchell: Lost in Shangri-La (narrative nonfiction)
- Reichl, Ruth: Garlic and Sapphires (memoir)
January
- Flinn, Kathleen: The Kitchen Counter Cooking School (nonfiction)
- Atwood, Margaret: Oryx and Crake (fiction)
- Preston, Caroline: The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt (fiction)
- Pankhurst, Carolyn: The Nobodies Album (fiction)
- Ridley, Glynis: The Discovery of Jeanne Baret (narrative nonfiction)
- Wallace, David Foster (editor): Best American Essays 2007 (essays)
- Kempe, Frederick: Berlin 1961 (nonfiction)
- Brooks, David: The Social Animal (nonfiction)
I have a sometimes-used ratings system, inspired by Anastasia at Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog, which is as follows:
Rating: 
= Loved it!
Rating: 
= Liked it a lot.
Rating: = I’m glad I read it, but I probably won’t reread it.
Rating: = Mostly bad, but had some merit.
Rating: = Not very good, I didn’t enjoy it much.
Rating: = Did not finish, or so bad I had nothing nice to say about it.
