It's time. What did I read in 2012?
Stats:
Books read: 80
Fiction: 71
Nonfiction: 7
Poetry: 2
Young adult: 16
Classics: 9
Male authors: 32
Female authors: 48
Re-reads: 10
Favorite reads, in no particular order (links are to my reviews):
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
The Master Blaster by P.F. Kluge
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown
You & Me by Padgett Powell
The Odds by Stewart O'Nan
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
Books I wished I hadn't bothered to finish and could get those hours of my life back:
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous (*snort*)
Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan (the ridiculous updated version, not the original classic)
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
So...how was your 2012 reading life?
Oh I hear you about Harold Fry. One of the most frustratingly artificial set-ups and endings I read this year!
Posted by: Alex in Leeds | January 01, 2013 at 01:54 PM
I had a lot of trouble with the narrative structure and the fact that a key plot twist, known to the main characters, was not revealed to the readers until the end. Oh, I was annoyed about that.
Posted by: Amy Rea | January 01, 2013 at 07:29 PM
Looks like a good year of reading! And if you only have four "get my life back" books out of 80, that's pretty good :)
Posted by: Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness) | January 01, 2013 at 07:34 PM
Kim, the 50-page rule saved me from expanding that part of the list!
Posted by: Amy Rea | January 02, 2013 at 08:48 PM
Great list. You read a ton of books last year!
Posted by: Miss T | January 04, 2013 at 08:15 AM