50 Books in 2012
Hit my target of reading 50 books in 2012, made it just under the wire, too. Slightly disappointed that I read less than the year prior (56 was 2011's total), but happy I hit my goal. List is under the cut. Some I can recommend, others I'd stay away from, but all of them passed through my brain sometime last year.
Happy New Year!
1) The Fountain Head - Ayn Rand
2) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
3) The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
4) The Lucifer Effect - Dr. Philip Zambardo
5) Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
6) The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber
7) Castle - J. Robert Lennon
8) Uncle Rudolph - Paul Bailey
9) The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
10) Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
11) Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
12) Asylum - Patrick McGrath
13) The History Boys - Alan Bennett
14) Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
15) The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier
16) A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
17) Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown - anthology edited by Marvin Kaye
18) Doctor Who: The Glamour Chase - Gary Russell
19) The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
20) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
21) Monster - Duncan MacMillan
22) Stranger than Fiction: Welsh Ghosts and Folklore
23) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
24) The Old Romantic - Louise Dean
25) The Immortalization Commission - John Gray
26) Apartment 16 - Adam Nevill
27) Mrs de Winter - Susan Hill
28) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John le Carre
29) The Egyptologist - Arthur Phillips
30) The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
31) The Town That Forgot How to Breathe - Kenneth J. Harvey
32) The Observations - Jane Harris
33) The Vows of Silence - Susan Hill
34) Private Battles - Simon Garfield
35) Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
36) Theories of International Politics and Zombies - Daniel W. Drezner
37) The War of the Worlds - HG Wells
38) The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
39) Starter for Ten - David Nicholls
40) We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
41) Family Britain: 1951-1957 - David Kynaston
42) As Simple As Snow - Gregory Galloway
43) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
44) Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen - Marilyn Chin
45) The Ninth Life of Louis Drax - Liz Jensen
46) Doctor Who: The Peacemaker - James Swallow
47) Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
48) The Apple: Crimson Petal Stories - Michel Faber
49) Live and Let Die - Ian Fleming
50) Doctor Who: The King's Dragon
And I'm starting 2013 with The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Happy New Year!
1) The Fountain Head - Ayn Rand
2) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
3) The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
4) The Lucifer Effect - Dr. Philip Zambardo
5) Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
6) The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber
7) Castle - J. Robert Lennon
8) Uncle Rudolph - Paul Bailey
9) The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
10) Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
11) Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
12) Asylum - Patrick McGrath
13) The History Boys - Alan Bennett
14) Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
15) The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier
16) A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
17) Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown - anthology edited by Marvin Kaye
18) Doctor Who: The Glamour Chase - Gary Russell
19) The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
20) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
21) Monster - Duncan MacMillan
22) Stranger than Fiction: Welsh Ghosts and Folklore
23) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
24) The Old Romantic - Louise Dean
25) The Immortalization Commission - John Gray
26) Apartment 16 - Adam Nevill
27) Mrs de Winter - Susan Hill
28) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John le Carre
29) The Egyptologist - Arthur Phillips
30) The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
31) The Town That Forgot How to Breathe - Kenneth J. Harvey
32) The Observations - Jane Harris
33) The Vows of Silence - Susan Hill
34) Private Battles - Simon Garfield
35) Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
36) Theories of International Politics and Zombies - Daniel W. Drezner
37) The War of the Worlds - HG Wells
38) The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
39) Starter for Ten - David Nicholls
40) We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
41) Family Britain: 1951-1957 - David Kynaston
42) As Simple As Snow - Gregory Galloway
43) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
44) Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen - Marilyn Chin
45) The Ninth Life of Louis Drax - Liz Jensen
46) Doctor Who: The Peacemaker - James Swallow
47) Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
48) The Apple: Crimson Petal Stories - Michel Faber
49) Live and Let Die - Ian Fleming
50) Doctor Who: The King's Dragon
And I'm starting 2013 with The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende