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Ubik, Phillip K. Dick
True Deceiver, Tove Jansson
Rework, Jason Fried
Travels in Siberia, Ian Frazier
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, Marilyn Johnson
Great Plains, Ian Frazier
We've Got The Neutron Bomb, Spitz/Mullen
A Preferred Blur, Henry Rollins
Love is a Mix Tape, Rob Sheffield
You're a Horrible Person But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice, (Various)
The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over The Ship, Charles Bukowski
True Grit, Charles Portis
Talking with Girls About Duran Duran,, Rob Sheffield
Demian, Herman Hesse
Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
Tomato Red, Daniel Woodrell
Sister Brothers, Patrick deWitt
A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Bossypants, Tina Fey
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Bayou Trilogy, Daniel Woodrell
The Pale King, David Foster Wallace
After Dark, Haruki Murakami (re-read)
Give Us a Kiss, DanielWoodrell
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
The Possessed, Etif Batuman
Shampoo Planet, Doug Coupland
Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff
We All Fall Down, Michael Harvey
See A Little Light, Bob Mould
Blood, Bones and Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton
Egg Said Nothing, Caris O'Malley
Madam Bovary, Gustav Flaubert
African in Greenland, Tete-Michal Kpomassie
Visible Man, Chuck Klosterman
My Korean Deli, Ben Ryder Howe
Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
1Q84, Haruki Murakami
Ask the Dust, John Fante
Busy Monsters, William Giraldi
Train Dream, Denis Johnson (going to finish tonight or tomorrow)

Assuming I counted correctly and didn't miss any, I read 41 books this year.

Thirty-nine were new to me, two were re-reads.

Thirty-one were from the library, ten were mine. I didn't borrow any books this year. That's interesting.

Nine were authored by women, 31 by men, and one by both.

Seventeen were non-fiction, 24 were fiction.

Three best books I read this year, not necessarily in order:

The Pale King
1Q84
Sense and Sensibility
Madam Bovary
White Teeth

Most disappointing book:

Bossypants

And...you?

RandomAnthony wrote: "Three best books I read this year, not necessarily in order:

The Pale King
1Q84
Sense and Sensibility
Madam Bovary
White Teeth "

I'm waiting for the actual end of the month to do my count.
I like that your three best books actually look like five. I thought White Teeth was fantastic. Have you read any of her other stuff? I was disappointed by On Beauty. I have The Autograph Man but haven't read it yet.


I think Amber started a similar thread down in the lists section, incidentally.

Oops. Five best books. Heh. I had done a lot of counting by then.:)

Everyone keeps telling me that both The Autograph Man and On Beauty are disappointing. Which one is the essay one?

Shit. I missed a thread? I looked in the books sections to see if someone started one. I looked in the wrong place. I'll put the above in that one as well. Thanks, Pi.

I started a topic in Lists :)

1. The Litigators Grisham, John
2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Murakami, Haruki
3. Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustav
4. All the Pretty Horses McCarthy, Cormac
5. Stolen Life: A Memoir Dugard, Jaycee
6. Smokin' Seventeen (Stephanie Plum, #17) Evanovich, Janet
7. The Hypnotist Kepler, Lars
8. French Lessons Sussman, Ellen
9. Ten Thousand Saints: A Novel Henderson, Eleanor
10. The Tiger's Wife Obreht, Téa
11. Kings of Colorado: A Novel Hilton, David
12. Robopocalypse: A Novel Wilson, Daniel
13. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin Larson, Erik *
14. The Informationist Stevens, Taylor
15. If You Ask Me: And of Course You Won't White, Betty
16. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Audiobook) Foer, Joshua *
17. Blindness Saramago, José
18. The Weird Sisters Brown, Eleanor *
19. Sing you Home Picoult, Jodi
20. The Fifth Witness (Mickey Haller, #4) Connelly, Michael
21. Bossypants Fey, Tina
22. Started Early, Took My Dog Atkinson, Kate
23. Willie Mays Hirsch, James
24. The Shadow of the Wind Zafón, Carlos Ruiz
25. The Paris Wife McLain, Paula *
26. Super Sad True Love Story Shteyngart, Gary
27. The 19th Wife Ebershoff, David
28. The Last Talk with Lola Faye Cook, Thomas H.
29. Jane Eyre Brontë, Charlotte
30. My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space Scottoline, Lisa
31. A Visit from the Goon Squad Egan, Jennifer *
32. The Kitchen House Grissom, Kathleen
33. The Emperor of All Maladies Mukherjee, Siddhartha
34. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Murakami, Haruki
35. The Batboy Lupica, Mike
36. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Eggers, Dave
37. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Winchester, Simon
38. The Cookbook Collector Goodman, Allegra
39. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Hillenbrand, Laura
40. I Know This Much is True Lamb, Wally
41. Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
42. The Lonely Polygamist Udall, Brady
43. You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness Klam, Julie



the best books I read were The Tiger's Wife, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival Resilience and Redemption, Kings of Colorado: A Novel, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Shadow of the Wind

currently reading Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine

Ok, I’ve read about 57 books this year, but a large chunk were Doctor Who adventures that take about 5 hours to listen to on audio and even less time to read, so I went through them like potato chips. I've only counted the re-reads that felt like new, otherwise I've probably read closer to 65.

Readings on Jane Austen
A Jane Austen Education
The Dark Half (re-read)
The Whole Five Feet
Pet Sematary (re-read)
The Dead Zone (re-read)
Needful Things
Harry Potter and Philosophy
The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter
Stitches
Just Kids
Housekeeping vs. the Dirt
The Polysyllabic Spree
Wolf Hall
Pillars of the Earth
The Easter Parade
The Eyre Affair
The Handmaid’s Tale
Doctor Who: The Last Voyage
DW:Autonomy
DW: Nuclear Time
DW: The King’s Dragon
DW: The Doctor Trap
DW: Made of Steel
DW: The Slitheen Excursion
DW: The Nightmare of Black Island
DW: The Forever Trap
Stephen Moffat’s Doctor Who 2010
DW: Apollo 23
DW: Judgment of the Judoon
The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who
DW: Dead Air
DW: The Krillitane Storm
Red Unicorn
Gold Unicorn
Black Unicorn
DW: Night of the Humans
Nights at the Circus
Cat’s Eye
Wise Children
The Bloody Chamber
A Reading Diary
DW: The Forgotten Army
Sepulchre
Anna Karenina
Among the Bohemians
The 101 Dalmatians
Into a Paris Quartier
Labyrinth
Her Fearful Symmetry
The Amber Spyglass
The Subtle Knife
The Golden Compass
Through the Language Glass
I Feel Bad About My Neck

Top 5:
The Golden Compass
Wolf Hall
Among the Bohemians
Stitches
The Handmaid's Tale
(I've just noticed that this list doesn't really match what I said in Janine's 2011 thread, but I think I have a better idea now that I've seen my list more clearly)

Most Surprising (in a good way):
Wolf Hall

Most disappointing:
It's a tie between Pillars of the Earth and Her Fearful Symmetry. Pillars was an overall letdown, Symmetry didn't really disappoint until the end.

i read 48 books in 2011 or at least i put 48 on GR's. i generally have a goal of 52 cada uno so i fell a bit short. i have put astericks by some of my favs



The Return of Tarzan – Edgar Rice Burroughs
*Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Talk in the Park – Curt Smith
Soft Target – Stephen Hunter
The Burning Soul – John Connolly
The Vault – Boyd Morrison
Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper – Geoffrey Gray
Code Talker – Chester Nez
*Shock Wave – John Sandford
*Buried Prey – John Sandford
Empire of the Moghul: Raiders from the North – Alex Rutherford
Brothers At War – Alex Rutherford
*Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
Hornet Flight – Ken Follett
The 5th Witness – Michael Connelly
*The Lincoln Lawyer – Michael Connelly
Pursuit of Honor – Vince Flynn
Term Limits – Vince Flynn
American Assassin – Vince Flynn
*2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America – Albert Brooks
Pocket 47 – Jude Hardin
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs – Jon Scieszka
Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore – David McPhail
Empire of the Summer Moon: The Rise and Fall of the Commanches – S.C. Gwynne
Moonlight Mile – Dennis Lehane
Evel – Leigh Montville
The Bullpen Gospels – Dirk Hayhurst
A Heartbeat Away – Michael Palmer
The Ragged Edge of the World – Eugene Linden
*In Zanesville – Jo Ann Beard
Cross Fire – James Patterson
The Heart and the Fist – Eric Greitens
Eyes of the Innocent – Brad Parks
Practical Wisdom – Barry Swartz
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World – Jack Weatherford
The Sentry – Robert Crais
*Matterhorn – Karl Marlantes
The Reversal – Michael Connelly
*Khan: Empire of Silver – Conn Iggulden
Fall of Giants – Ken Follett
Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind Sports – Tobia Moskowitz
Dead Zero – Stephen Hunter
NFL Unplugged – Anthony Gargano
*The Pacific – Hugh Ambrose
The Confession – John Grisham
An Ordinary Decent Criminal – Michael Van Rooy
The Games The Changed The Game – Ron Jaworski
Extremes: Surviving The World’s Harshest Environments – Nick Middleton

Rick Astley is my favorite asterick.

My list is too long: 809 books, stories, novellas read in 2012. remember, I am mostly housebound if not bedbound these days with lots of time on my hands. I'd say 70% of the books were borrowed from the library and the rest I bought for my kindle and my Nook. the ereaders make it too easy to buy books and wreck my book budget every month. I am a voracious reader and I prefer genre books.

That's an impressive number, Michele, especially if you read them in the past month.

Michele wrote: "My list is too long: 809 books, stories, novellas read in 2012. remember, I am mostly housebound if not bedbound these days with lots of time on my hands. I'd say 70% of the books were borrowed fro..."

Wow. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around that number in one year.