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