2012 Booklist

I know I’m not going to finish reading any books in the next 2.5 hours, so here is my 2012 booklist. I’m pretty happy; I read more books than I bought, and I surpassed my resolution of 24 books by ten! (Although I did reread one book, Saint Valentine by Nick Tomlinson.) I was pleasantly reintroduced to YA fiction by John Green – after finishing his amazing books, I went on to read The Hunger Games, The Name of the Star, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, The Magicians and The Book Thief – all of which I enjoyed immensely.

I’ll definitely save one new year’s resolution for my 2013 reading list Aaand I linked a few reviews/synopses I did for a few books I read this year!

Bought/Received:

1. One for the Road and other stories: Recollections of Singapore and Malaysia by Julian Davison [8 Feb 12]
2. The Man Who Turned into Himself by David Ambrose [22 Feb 12]
3. Four Stories by Alan Bennett [22 Feb 12]
4. The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe [22 Feb 12]
5. Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo [22 Feb 12]
6. Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen [22 Feb 12]
7. Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink [29 Mar 12]
8. Paperboy by Christopher Fowler [29 Mar 12]
9. One Day by David Nicholls [From Kakak, 23 May 12]
10. Starter For Ten by David Nicholls [28 May 12]
11. The Understudy by David Nicholls [28 May 12]
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien [28 May 12]
13. The Book of Hard Words by David Bramwell [28 May 12]
14. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen [28 May 12]
15. Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Browne [28 May 12]
16. 127 Hours by Aron Ralston [10 Jun 12]
17. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne [10 Jun 12]
18. Mathematics Minus Fear by Lawrence Potter [10 Jun 12]
19. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman [10 Jun 12]
20. The Fault in Our Stars (Signed Vlogbrothers Copy) by John Green [10 Jun 12]

(10-15: Popular Book Sale; 16-20: Penguin Book Sale)

Finished:

1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett [9 Jan 12]
2. Jane and the Damned by Janet Mullany [11 Jan 12]
3. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [22 Jan 12]
4. The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Introduced by Jonathan Stroud) [8 Feb 12]
   - The Adventure of the Speckled Band
   - The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
   - The Musgrave Ritual
   - The Reigate Puzzle
   - Silver Blaze
   - The Adventure of Dancing Men
   - The Adventure of the Six Napoleans
   - The Missing Three-Quarter
5. The Hobbit, Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien [29 Feb 12]
6. Looking for Alaska by John Green [19 Mar 12]
7. Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo [28 Mar 12]
8. Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances [6 Apr 12]
   - The Jubile Express by Maureen Johnson
   - A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle by John Green
   -  The Patron Saint of Pigs by Lauren Myracle
9. Paper Towns by John Green [17 Apr 12]
10. Saint Valentine by Nick Tomlinson [2 May 12]
11. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green [5 May 12]
12. The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [12 May 12]
    - The Greek Interpreter
    - The Gloria Scott
    - The Resident Patient
    - The Boscombe Valley Mystery
    - The Three Students
    - The Noble Bachelor
    - The Crooked Man
    - The Five Orange Pips
13. An Assembly Such As This by Pamela Aidan [8 Jun 12]
14. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger [12 Jun 12]
15. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins [1 Jul 12]
16. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins [4 Jul 12]
17. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins [5 Jul 12]
18. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson [7 Jul 12]
19. E. E. Cummings by Catherine Reef [9 Jul 12]
20. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald [11 Jul 12]
21. From Notting Hill with Love…Actually by Ali McNamara [25 July 12]
22. You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon [15 Aug 12]
23. Guide to the Hunger Games by Caroline Carpenter [22 Aug 12]
24. The Fault in our Stars by John Green [30 Aug 12]
25. Slog’s Dad by David Almond (Illustrated by Dave McKean) [13 Sep 12]
26. The Savage by David Almond (Illustrated by Dave McKean) [15 Sep 12]
27. Skellig by David Almond [15 Sep 12]
28. That was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton [27 Sep 12]
29. One Day by David Nicholls [20 Oct 12]
30. All Unquiet Things by Anna Jarzab [10 Nov 12]
31. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown [11 Dec 12]
32. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart [20 Dec 12]
33. The Magicians by Lev Grossman [21 Dec 12]
34. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak [24 Dec 12]