starred books this year

I think my last list went up in July, 2011.
So from a year's worth of reading:

Peter Temple, Truth
Timothy Taylor, The Blue Light Project
Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe
Gregory Maguire, The Next Queen of Heaven
Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took my Dog
Henning Mankell, The Troubled Man
Miroslav Penkov, East of the West
Harumi Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Wayne Johnston, A World Elsewhere
Cynthia Ozick, Foreign Bodies
Jhumpa Lahire, The Namesake
Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
Ann Packer, Swim Back to Me
Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake
Tom Perotta, The Leftovers
Claire Messud, The Emperor's Children
Cordelia Strude, Lemon
Spalding Gray, Journals
Max Barry, Machine Man
Howard Norman, What is Left the Daughter
Max Barry, Jennifer Government
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending , Flaubert's Parrot
Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
Markus Zuzak, The Book Thief
Johan Harstad, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to you in all the Confusion?
Kathryn Davis, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf
Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues
Miriam Toews, Irma Voth
Elizabeth Hay, Alone in the Classroom
Peter Heller, The Dog Stars