In 2012, one of my goals is to actually get through some of the books collecting dust on my bookshelves. Well…my book-SHELF, because last year I pared down my collection to only one, which as an English major and a book lover was difficult. I’m still waiting on my gold star.
In an effort to have less clutter I’m slowly working my way through the following books, with some library books mixed in. (If you are interested in my book reviews, they are right here.) These are listed in no specific order except the order that they sit on my bookshelf — which is organized by color OBVIOUSLY. 
I’ll be crossing them off as I finish!
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American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in that House by Meghan Daum
The Town That Food Saved by Ben Hewitt
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
Sedaris by Kevin Kopelson
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper
The Rural Life by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Naked by David Sedaris
Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
To Have and To Hold by Jane Green
The Wonderspot by Melissa Bank
The Queen’s Fool by Phillipa Gregory
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Crazy Salad by Nora Ephron
Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks
The Butcher and The Vegetarian by Tara Austen Weaver
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Month of Sundays by John Updike
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Candy Girl by Diablo Cody
The What is the What by Dave Eggers
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Good Enough to Eat by Stacey Ballis
Fast Food nation by Eric Schlosser
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
House of Daughters by Sarah Kate Lynch
Testimony by Anita Shreve
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
A Cook’s Tour by Anthony Bourdain
Little Children by Tom Perotta
Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
Book of Days by Emily Fox Gordon
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
Second Chance by Jane Green
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Whole World Over by Julia Glass
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
What Reminas by Carole Radziwill
Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
Three Junes by Julia Glass
The Beach House by Jane Green
Women Food and God by Geneen Roth
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Wickett’s Remedy by Myla Goldberg
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
I Was Told There Would Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
Villages by John Updike
The Sound of No Hands Clapping by Toby Young
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
The Information by Marin Amis
Bringing Out the Dead by Joe Connelly
Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Snobs by Julian Fellowes
Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Wells
The Gathering by Anne Enright
My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler
The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman
The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman
The Night Villa by Carol Goodman
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Likeness by Tana French
Speak Softly, She Can Hear by Pam Lewis
The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Old School by Tobias Wolff
UltraMarathon Man by Dean Karnazes
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
The Late Bloomer’s Revolution by Amy Cohen
If You Were Here by Jen Lancaster
