These are my 15 favorite books of 2012 (amongst the ones that I blogged about)
Things Fall Apart |
Achebe, Chinua |
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
Alexie, Sherman |
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter |
Bissell, Tom |
Pyongyang: A Journey In North Korea |
DeLisle, Guy |
Mill On The Floss |
Eliot, George |
The Sportswriter |
Ford, Richard |
The Feminist Mystique [2] |
Friedan, Betty |
The Power And The Glory |
Greene, Graham |
Second Shift |
Hochschild, Arlie Russell |
Collected Poems |
Larkin, Phillip |
The Blind Side |
Lewis, Mike |
Pursuit of Love |
Mitford, Nancy |
The Pillow Book |
Shonagon, Sei |
The Warden |
Trollope, Anthony |
Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey To The End Of Taste |
Wilson, Carl |
And these are all the books that I blogged about in 2012
Things Fall Apart |
Achebe, Chinua |
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
Alexie, Sherman |
Speak |
Anderson, Laurie Halse |
Pride and Prejudice |
Austen, Jane |
The Girl’s Guide To Hunting And Fishing |
Bank, Melissa |
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books And The People Who Read Them |
Batuman, Elif |
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter |
Bissell, Tom |
Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation |
Bissell, Tom |
Drop City |
Boyle, T.C. |
Agnes Grey |
Bronte, Ann |
How To Stop Worrying And Start Living |
Carnegie, Dale |
Silent Spring |
Carson, Rachel |
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower |
Chbosky, Stephen |
Falconer |
Cheever. John |
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd |
Christie, Agatha |
The Hunt For Red October |
Clancy, Tom |
Hunger Games |
Collins, Suzanne |
Chocolate War |
Cormier, Robert |
Best American Essays (2011) |
Danticat, Edwidge (ed) |
Robinson Crusoe |
Defoe, Daniel |
Pyongyang: A Journey In North Korea |
DeLisle, Guy |
Little Dorrit |
Dickens, Charles |
Mill On The Floss |
Eliot, George |
Middlemarch |
Eliot, George |
Collected Poems |
Eliot, T.S. |
Bridget Jones’ Diary [2] |
Fielding, Helen |
Tender Is The Night |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
The Sportswriter |
Ford, Richard |
Independence Day |
Ford, Richard |
The Feminist Mystique [2] |
Friedan, Betty |
Stranieri |
Gans, Tristan |
The Man Who Folded Himself |
Gerrold, Davi |
Something Borrowed |
Giffin, Emily |
The Fault In Our Stars |
Green, John |
The Power And The Glory |
Greene, Graham |
Brighton Rock |
Greene, Graham |
Escape From Camp 14 |
Harden, Blaine |
House of the Seven Gables (didn’t finish) |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
Second Shift |
Hochschild, Arlie Russell |
The Odyssey |
Homer |
The American |
James, Henry |
Why We Can’t Wait [2] |
King Jr., Martin Luther |
Confessions of a Shopaholic |
Kinsella, Sophie |
Collected Poems |
Larkin, Phillip |
Conjure Wife |
Leiber, Fritz |
The Stepford Wives |
Levin, Ira |
The Blind Side |
Lewis, Mike |
Changing Places |
Lodge, David |
Small World: An Academic Romance |
Lodge, David |
Sloppy Firsts |
McCafferty, Megan |
Dragonflight |
McCaffrey, Anne |
Oranges |
McPhee, John |
Pursuit of Love |
Mitford, Nancy |
Election |
Perrotta, Tom |
Atlas Shrugged |
Rand, Ayn |
Wide Sargasso Sea |
Rhys, Jean |
The Overachievers |
Robbins, Alexandra |
God’s Harvard |
Rosin, Hanna |
Nine Stories |
Salinger, J.D. |
Redshirts |
Scalzi, John |
It’s A Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken |
Seth |
And The Band Played On |
Shilts, Randy |
The Pillow Book |
Shonagon, Sei |
Against Interpretation and other essays |
Sontag, Susan |
Red Plenty |
Spufford, Francis |
Pulphead |
Sullivan, John Jeremiah |
Confessions of a Pickup-Artist Chaser |
Thorn, Clarisse |
The Warden |
Trollope, Anthony |
The Way We Live Now |
Trollope, Anthony |
Barchester Towers |
Trollope, Anthony |
Framley Parsonage |
Trollope, Anthony |
The Small House At Allington |
Trollope, Anthony |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Twain, Mark |
Farthing |
Walton, Jo |
Half A Crown |
Walton, Jo |
Drinking at the Movies |
Wertz, Julia |
Miss Lonelyhearts |
West, Nathanael |
House of Mirth |
Wharton, Edith |
Picture of Dorian Gray |
Wilde, Oscar |
Stoner |
Williams, John |
Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey To The End Of Taste |
Wilson, Carl |
Old School |
Wolff, Tobias |
Revolutionary Road |
Yates, Richard |
Heroines |
Zambreno, Kate |
The most bittersweet part of compiling this list is looking at all the books that I didn’t blog about. As always, these included many of my most favorite books of the year. Sometimes you read something, and you just don’t have anything to say. Or you do have something, and then the moment passes. Out of all the books that I didn’t blog, perhaps my favorite was The Road by Cormac McCarthy. What a thoroughly excellent book. Here are twenty books that I enjoyed but did not write about.
No Longer At Ease |
Achebe, Chinua |
A Man Of The People |
Achebe, Chinua |
U and I |
Baker, Nicholson |
A Provincial Celebrity in Paris |
Balzac, Honore de |
How To Win Friends And Influence People |
Carnegie, Dale |
The Little Sister |
Chandler, Raymond |
Great Expectations |
Dickens, Charles |
Less Than Zero |
Ellis, Brett Easton |
Washington Square |
James, Henry |
Portrait Of A Lady |
James, Henry |
Thinking, Fast And Slow |
Kahnemann, Daniel |
The Road |
McCarthy, Cormac |
Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids |
Milner, Murray Jr. |
Major Barbara |
Shaw, George Bernard |
Beyond Freedom and Dignity |
Skinner, B.F. |
Seven Days In The Art World |
Thornton, Sarah |
A Handful of Dust |
Waugh, Evelyn |
Put Out More Flags |
Waugh, Evelyn |
The Touchstone |
Wharton, Edith |
In Pharaoh’s Army |
Wolff, Tobias |
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