State of Wonder ~ Revolution ~ The Fault in Our Stars ~ The
Disenchantments ~ The Handmaid’s Tale ~ True Grit ~ Love? Maybe ~ The
Future of Us ~ Rebecca ~ The Snow Child ~ All These Lives ~ The
Thirteenth Tale ~ Hemlock ~ Enchanted Ivy ~ A Young Wife ~ The Guernsey
Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society ~ Wanderlove ~ The Art of
Fielding ~ The Espressologist ~ Dear American Airlines ~ American Born
Chinese ~ The Book Thief ~ Promise the Night ~ Amelia Anne is Dead and
Gone ~ The Time it Snowed in Puerto Rico ~ The Wilding ~ Jellicoe Road ~
Insurgent ~ The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer ~ How Should a Person Be? ~
Laura Rider’s Masterpiece ~ Audrey, Wait! ~ Skinny ~ So Much Closer ~
Monstrous Beauty ~ The Conscious Bride ~ Moloka’i ~ The Bungalow ~ MWF
Seeking BFF ~ Between Shades of Gray ~ Prairie Evers ~ Laura Lamont’s
Life in Pictures ~ Liar & Spy ~ Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony ~ Gone
Girl ~ Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing It in the Sandwich Islands ~
Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony ~ The Butterfly Clues ~
The Age of Miracles ~ Beautiful Ruins ~ Life As We Knew It ~ The Raven
Boys ~ The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy ~ Samantha Sutton and
the Labyrinth of Lies ~ Frost ~ Ask the Passengers ~ Rules of Civility ~
My Very UnFairytale Life ~ Catching Jordan ~ The Year We Left Home ~
Real Mermaids Don’t Wear Toe Rings ~ Mira’s Diary: Lost in Paris ~
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of Universe
That’s 62 books!
27 were YA, and 8 MG. I think 17 of those were 2012 releases.
How did I do on some of my reading goals?
1. Read more books than in 2011: Achieved! I read 52 books in 2011.
2. Catch up on classics: Not much progress here, although I did finally read Rebecca, and I read some obscure Mark Twain.
3. Read some YA Nonfiction: I did! I read The Pregnancy Project.
4. More genres: I read fewer scifi/fantasy books than in 2011, but more thrillers and more historical fiction.
5. Reread old favorites: Total fail. I didn’t reread anything. Can you blame me, though, when there are so many wonderful books to read?
This year, I want to keep up my book-a-week pace, read more debuts, and even out my MG-YA reading ratio.
Impressive list! I would say Handmaid’s Tale counts as a classic, and The Book Thief either will be a classic or is an instant classic, so that counts too:)
Ooh, there are several on your list I’ve been meaning to read. I like the idea of a book a week–of course, now that I’ve given myself permission to slow down, I’ve read a book a day for the last two days (and maybe again today.) Go figure. But I’m sure there will be many crazy weeks where one is a struggle (I haven’t written at all this week, for one thing.)
Yeah, so I started a Classics Challenge some time back and only managed to complete two on the list. So you’re not alone on not quite tackling that goal the way you wanted to. I’m still partway through GREAT EXPECTATIONS and have every intention of finishing it…at some point. 😛 I think that I’d like to branch out into some other genres a little more too, and perhaps read some non-fiction.
I finished The Rules of Civility yesterday (I got it for Christmas) and I LOVED it so. Made me worry about the livers of all those gin-swigging partiers, though. Whew, could they throw back some drinks. The mystery, the language and the City totally bewitched me.
What a great list– I ooohed and aaahed at some of my faves on there (Jellicoe Road, Rebecca) and those Roanoke books look super cool. That story fascinates!