January

  • you better not cry: stories for christmas by augusten burroughs
  • high school confidential: secrets of undercover student by jeremy iversen
  • my year of meats by ruth ozeki
  • half-broke horses: a true-life novel by jeannette walls
  • why is my mother getting a tattoo?: and other questions i wish i never had to ask by jancee dunn
  • i love a man in uniform: a memoir of love, war and other battles by lily burana
  • punk rock dad: no rules, just real life by jim lindberg
  • i'm perfect, you're doomed: tales from a jehovah's witness upbringing by kyria abrahams
  • the vanishing act of esme lennox by maggie o'farrell
  • cleaving by julie powell
  • eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything across italy, india and indonesia by elizabeth gilbert
  • a monk swimming: a memoir by malachy mccourt

February

  • lit: a memoir by mary karr
  • down by the river by edna o'brien
  • not a happy camper: a memoir by mindy schneider
  • happy birthday or whatever: track suits, kim chee, and other family disasters by annie choi
  • the truth about the irish by terry eagleton
  • the english american: a novel by allison larkin
  • the memory keeper's daughter by kim edwards
  • live through this: a mother's memoir of runaway daughters and reclaimed love by debra gwartney
  • dead until dark by charlaine harris
  • the prize winner of defiance, ohio: how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less by terry ryan
  • serving crazy with curry by amulya malladi

March

  • committed: a skeptic makes peace with marriage by elizabeth gilbert
  • daughter of the queen of sheba: a memoir by jacki lyden
  • woman who eat: a new generation on the glory of food edited by leslie miller
  • choice: true stories of birth, contraception, infertility, adoption, single parenthood and abortion edited by karen bender & nina de gramont
  • the amazing adventures of dietgirl by shauna reid
  • little chapel on the river: a pub, a town and the search for what matters most by gwendolyn bounds
  • the omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals by michael pollan
  • mystic river by dennis lehane
  • eating the dinosaur by chuck klosterman

April

  • cherry by mary karr
  • exile in guyville: how a punk rock redneck faggot texan moved to west hollywood and refused to be shiny and happy by dave white
  • waiter rant: thanks for the tip - confessions of a cynical waiter by steve dublanica
  • bento box in the heartland: my japanese girlhood in whitebread america by linda furiya
  • i'm a stranger here myself: notes on returning to america after 20 years away by bill bryson
  • we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson
  • the book of lost things by john connolly

May

  • sex and bacon: why i love things that are very, very bad for me by sarah katherine lewis
  • trailer trashed: my dubious efforts toward upward mobility by hollis gillespie

June

  • half-assed: a weight-loss memoir by jennette fulda
  • the help by kathryn stockett
  • the happiness project by gretchen rubin
  • best friends forever by jennifer weiner
  • triumph: life after the cult - a survivor's lessons by carolyn jessop
  • how to sew a button: and other nifty things your grandmother knew by erin bried
  • a year in provence by peter mayle
  • are you there, vodka? it's me, chelsea by chelsea handler
  • between, georgia by joshilyn jackson

July

  • the ghost map: the story of london's most terrifying epidemic - and how it changed science, cities and the modern world by steven johnson
  • bastard out of carolina by dorothy allison
  • how did you get this number by sloane crosley
  • hungry: lessons learned on the journey from fat to thin by allen zadoff

August

  • the lace reader by brunonia barry
  • my life in france by julia child
  • nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in america by barbara ehrenreich (reread)
  • the importance of being kennedy by laurie graham
  • that old cape magic by richard russo

September

  • never satisfied: a cultural history of diets, fantasies & fat by hillel schwartz
  • french women don't get fat: the secret of eating for pleasure by mireille guiliano (reread)
  • the devil in massachusetts: a modern enquiry into the salem witch trials by marion starkey
  • medium raw: a bloody valentine to the world of food and the people who cook by anthony bourdain
  • queenan country: a reluctant anglophile's pilgrimage to the mother country by joe queenan
  • old school by tobias wolff
  • never shower in a thunderstorm by anahad o'connor
  • a year in the merde by stephen clarke

October

  • peyton place by grace metalious
  • the girls who went away: the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decade before roe v. wade by ann fessler
  • the new york regional mormon singles halloween dance by elna baker
  • the lonely polygamist by brady udall
  • the fasting girl: a true victorian medical mystery by michelle stacey
  • a walk in the woods: rediscovering america on the appalachian trail by bill bryson

November

  • mennonite in a little black dress by rhoda janzen
  • the liars' club by mary karr
  • in the heart of the sea: the tragedy of the whaleship essex by nathaniel philbrick

December

  • almost french by sarah turnbull
  • food, girls and other things I can't have by allen zadoff
  • unbearable lightness by portia de rossi
  • an idiot girl's christmas by laurie notaro
  • wishin' and hopin': a christmas story by wally lamb
  • everything that rises must converge by flannery o'connor
  • girls to the front: the true story of the riot grrrl revolution by sara marcus
dec 3 2013 ∞
dec 3 2013 +