These are the books I finished in 2012, grouped loosely according to how much I liked them. The links will take you to each book's page on goodreads for a summary, reviews, and other information. If you've read any of these and would like to share an opinion or if you have questions about any of them, I'd love to hear from you in a comment.
Five Stars
1. In Europe by Geert Mak
2. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
3. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
4. The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
5. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
6. The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
Four Stars
7. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie Chang
8. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
9. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
10. When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins
11. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
13. Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America by Jonathan Kozol
14. Let Me Go by Helga Schneider
15. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
16. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
17. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
18. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
19. More Baths, Less Talking by Nick Hornby
20. The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman
21. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
22. Winter of the World by Ken Follett
23. The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
24. Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
Three Stars
25. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
26. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
27. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
28. Get Me Out of Here by Henry Sutton
29. Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day by Stephan Talty
30. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
31. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow
32. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
33. The Informationist by Taylor Stevens
34. My Berlin Kitchen by Luisa Weiss
35. The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down by Andrew McCarthy
36. The Expats by Chris Pavone
37. Rip Tide by Stella Rimington
38. I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother by Allison Pearson
39. One Day by David Nicholls
40. The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
41. The Fear Index by Robert Harris
42. Enigma by Robert Harris
43. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
44. How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
45. The Broker by John Grisham
Two Stars
46. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
47. Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America by David Wise
48. The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
49. Life Goes On by Hans Keilson
50. After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life that Came Next by Jana Hensel
51. Watermark by Joseph Brodsky
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