2012 Reads

January

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

A Storm of Swords Part I: Steel and Snow by George R.R. Martin

February

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

A Storm of Swords Part II: Blood and Gold by George R.R. Martin

March

The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré

April

A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

Clandestine in Chile by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

May

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

June

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Reportage on Crime by Nick Joaquin

Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

July

Heart of Darkness/Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

August

Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

Wit by Margaret Edson

Gagamba by F. Sionil Jose

Ilustrado  by Miguel Syjuco

Reportage on Lovers by Nick Joaquin

Shopgirl by Steve Martin

Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal

That Kind of Guy by Mina V. Esguerra

September

A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Everyman by Philip Roth

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

October

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

Le Bal and Snow in Autumn by Irene Nemirovsky

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith

November

Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock

Beneath the Wheel by Herman Hesse

Leaf Storm and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids by Kenzaburo Oe

Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa

December

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

The Lemoine Affair by Marcel Proust

Chess by Stefan Zweig

Two Gallants by James Joyce

The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories edited by Alberto Manguel