10 years I've been keeping track of the number of books I've read. This is the first I've written down every title... minus the few handfuls of novels I would have bought, finished and sent packing within a day out at the park.
* Books I've read before this year, some I also read more than once this year.
*** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
A Changed Man - Francine Prose
A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews *** ~ I'll read this again and again.
A Queer History of the Ballet - Peter Stoneley
A Sort of Life - Graham Greene
A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards - Ann Bauer
A Year of Biblical Womanhood - Rachel Held Evans
Addiction: What's Really Going On? Inside a Heroin Treatment Program - Deborah McCloskey
American Nerd - Benjamin Nugent
An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World - Pankaj Mishra *
Anorexia's Fallen Angel - Barbara McClintock
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City - Nick Flynn
Arguing With Idiots - Glenn Beck
Ash - Malinda Lo
Beyond Fundraising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment - Kay Sprinkel Grace
Big Trouble - Dave Barry
Bitter in the Mouth - Monique Troung
Black Vinyl White Powder - Simon Napier-Bell
Blink & Caution - Tim Wynne-Jones
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell ***
Bossypants - Tina Fey
Boy Alone - Karl Taro Greenfeld
Brocabulary: The New Man-I-Festo of Dude Talk - Daniel Maurer
By the People: A History of Americans as Volunteers
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Children of Welfare - Joan J. Johnson
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa - Dambisa Moyo
Dear Photograph - Taylor Jones
Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change - Mary Joyce
Don't Be Afraid - Steven Hayward
Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness - Peter H. Rossi
Einstein: His Life and Universe - Walter Issacson
Emergence: Labeled Autistic - Temple Grandin *
Every Dead Thing - John Connolly
Fantastic Voyage - Isaac Asimov
Fire and Ice - J.A. Jance
Fly Away Home - Eve Bunting
Freedom - Johnathan Franzen
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
Gods of Eden- William Bramley *
Green is the New Red - Will Potter
Growing Up on the Spectrum - Lynn Kern Koebel & Claire LaZebnik
Half the Sky: Turning Opression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide - Nicholas D. Kristoff
His Way; The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra - Kitty Kelley *
Hold onto Your NUTs: The Relationship Manual for Men - Wayne M. Levine
Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis - Jack Layton *
How Can I Talk if My Lips Don't Move: Inside My Autistic Mind - Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
How I Became a Famous Novelist - Steve Hely *** ~ funniest book I've read in a long time
How I slept My Way to the Middle - Kevin Pollack
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas - David Bornstein
How to Increase Homelessness - Joel John Roberts
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie *** ~ A book that'll change anyone's life.
I Am Ozzy - Ozzy Osbourne
If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? - Erma Bombeck *
Inside Scientology - Janet Reitman
In the Miso Soup - Ryū Murakami
Is God a Mathematician? - Mario Livio *
Jar City - Arnaldur Indridason
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Just Take My Heart - Mary Higgins Clark
Lance Armstrong's War - Daniel Coyle
Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir - James Salant *
Lennon - Tim Riley
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
Lullabies for Little Criminals - Heather O'Neill
Luna - Julie Anne Peters
Lying With Strangers - James Grippando
MWF Seeking BFF - Rachel Bertsche
Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness - Brendan O'Flaherty
Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli
Martha Inc. - Christopher Byron
Mission to America - Walter Kin
Mr. Clarinet - Nick Stone
Music For Torching - A.M. Homes
My Friend Leonard - James Frey
Noble House - James Clavell
Novel - George Singleton
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham *** ~ This may be the best novel I've ever read, it'll probably take me another 5 readings to truly find the meaning.
Our Daily Bread - Lauren B. Davis
Pink - Marilyn Griffith
Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel *
Rachel's Holiday - Marian Keyes
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America - Jonathan Kozol *** ~ This book makes me point a critical finger at myself and explore my true intentions and reactions.
Reinventing Mona - Jennifer Coburn
Revolution! - Michael L. Brown
Revolution 2020 - Chetan Bhagat
Road Dogs - Elmore Leonard
Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road - Willie Nelson
Same Kind of Different Me - Ron Hall
Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz
Self Made Man - Norah Vincent
Seven Types of Ambiguity - Elliot Perlman
Social Entrepreneurship: The Art of Mission-Based Venture Development - Peter C. Brinkerhoff *
Sorta Like A Rock Star - Matthew Quick
Steal Like An Artist - Austin Kleon *
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Steve Jobs: A Biography - Walter Issacson
Street Crazy: America's Mental Health Tragedy - Stephen B. Seager *
Sweetheart - Chelsea Cain
Tchaikovsky - Roland John Wiley
Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women - Elliot Liebow
Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill - Jessica Stern
The Art of Making Money - Jason Kersten
The Beatles: The Biography - Bob Spitz
The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch
The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World - David Icke
The Bite of the Mango - Mariatu Kamara with Susan McLelland
The Bodies Left Behind - Jeffery Deaver
The Cold Spot - Tom Piccirilli
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon *** ~ A truly great read on being an outsider looking in.
The Cutting Crew - Steve Mosby
The Debutante - Kathleen Tessaro
The Family Under the Bridge - Natalie Savage Carlson *
The Forgotten Waltz - Anne Enright
The Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
The Guardians - Andrew Pyper
The Heroin Diaries - Nikki Sixx
The Homeless - Christopher Jencks
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
The Joy of Hate - Greg Gutfeld
The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
The Know-It-All - A.J. Jacobs
The Man's Manual - Gregg Stebben
The Marbury Lens - Andrew Smith
The Men Who Stare at Goats - Jon Ronson
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City - Jennifer Toth *
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
The Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
The Photographer - Emmanuel Guibert
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver *
The Recovery Formula: An Addict's Guide to Getting Clean & Sober Forever - Beth Burgess
The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy - Polly Williams
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason *
The Straw Men - Michael Marshall
The Time We All Went Marching - Arley McNeney
The Tolkien Reader - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Velveteen Killer Rabbit - Elia Anie *** ~ It's not for the faint of heart, but Elia Anie has a knack for showing you the dark side of otherwise adorable creatures. Parody.
The War of the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa
The Wealthy Barber - David Chilton * ~ Read it. Every year. Sometimes twice.
The Wild Woman's Guide to Fundraising - Mazarine Treyz
The Wizard of Loneliness - John Treadwell Nichols
The Working Poor: Invisible in America - David K. Shipler
The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
There's a Boy in Here: Emerging from the Bonds of Autism - Judy Barron
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism - Temple Grandin *
Three Cuos of Team: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time - Greg Mortenson
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Turn Me On, Dead Man - Andru J. Reeve
Twitter for Good: Change the World One Tweet at a Time - Claire Diaz-Ortiz *** ~ Twitter's official guide to using the platform for social change, must read for anyone in the field.
Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas
Under the Dome - Stephen King
Underworld - Don DeLillo
Unnatural Death - Dorothy L. Sayers
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin - Norah Vincent
We Don't Live Here Anymore - Andre Dubus
What's to Become of the Boy; Or, Something to Do with Books - Heinrich Böll *
What Was That Number Again? - Neil Hedley
When the Game was Ours - Larry Bird & Earvin "Magic" Johnson
When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada - Peter C. Newman *
Where Rainbows End - Cecelia Ahern
Without Apology: Girls, Women and the Desire to Fight - Leah Hager Cohen
World of Chickens - Nick Earls
You Cannot Be Serious - John McEnroe
50 Shades of Grey - EL James ~ Yes, I read it. What a waste of brain cells.
Good golly, I love to lose myself in a book. This year, 2 atypical behaviours on the book front: I bought several books new, which I RARELY do. I'm a thrift shopper which is why most of the books I read are OLD. Secondly, I think I only read about 5 truly horrid books this year, and only 1 on the list above. The others were randoms I picked up somewhere and read in an afternoon.
2012 has been a good year for reading!
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