A Retrospective.

The Year in Review.  53 books + 2666 (a book I never should have opened).  I made it! 
So many lovelies . . . and my favorite book of the year - the Book Thief.
My favorite book "moment" of the year - meeting Anna Quindlen in person.  Bucket list check.

I've bolded my favs below.

Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
What Now? by Ann Patchett
Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child
Babywise
The Baby Whisperer
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachmann
The Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Down Came the Rain by Brooke Shields (and her editor)
It Sucked and Then I Cried by blogger Heather Armstrong
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems
Eaarth by Bill McKibben
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldmann
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
Eating Pomegranates by Sarah Gabriel
Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by the notorious Ina May

Healthy Child, Healthy World by Christopher Gavigan
Heading Home with your Newborn by Jana and Shu
Halfbroke Horses by Jeanette Walls
The Power of Purpose by Richard Leider
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safron Foer
The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson
2666 by Robert Bolano
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Nurtureshock by Po Bronson
Your Best Birth by Ricki Lake
The Alice Walker book
The Art of Eating In by Cathy Erway
Marriage and Other Acts of Cruelty by Kate Braestrup
Baby Proof by Emily Giffin
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenberger
The Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore
Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd