Book-It 'o12! ROUND UP!
I am indeed bummed that I only got to exactly fifty books last year (several library books I dawdled on until I couldn't renew them any further and... well...), but it's all the more incentive for this year. It's last year's Fifty Books Challenge!
Favorite Books:
Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer
The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder
The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice
Bossypants
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns)
Name All the Animals
The Silence of Our Friends
I Am A Pole (And So Can You!)
The Year of the Beasts
The Onion Presents Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, and Moral Rectitude from America's Finest News Source 1988-2008
The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel
Girl Walks into a Bar...: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
Cupcakes, Cookies & Pie, Oh, My!
X'ed Out
Peaches for Father Francis: A Novel
The Hive
Jacqueline Kennedy : The White House Years: Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
Echo: The Complete Edition
The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopaedia Of Existing Information
Life After Death
Least Favorite Books:
Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer
The Three Incestuous Sisters: An Illustrated Novel
Never Knowing
Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
The Raging Quiet
The Crazy World of Cats
Deliverance From Evil: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
Comic Book History of Comics
Powers: The Definitive Hardcover Collection, Vol. 3
Life After Death
Books That Felt Like a Sisyphean Ordeal:
Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer
Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage
The Obamas
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
Deliverance From Evil: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
Comic Book History of Comics
Powers: The Definitive Hardcover Collection, Vol. 3
Books That Made Me Want to Smack the Author(s):
Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer
Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage
Comic Book History of Comics
Powers, Vol. 3: Little Deaths
Powers, Vol. 4: Supergroup
Powers, Vol. 2: Roleplay
Powers, Vol. 1: Who Killed Retro Girl?
Powers: The Definitive Hardcover Collection, Vol. 3
Life After Death
Books That Helped Me Look at the World in a New Way:
Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer
Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage
The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder
The Obamas
The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice
Bossypants
Lucky
The Source of All Things: A Memoir
Name All the Animals
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns)
The Silence of Our Friends
Get Well Soon
The Burning Time
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel
Girl Walks into a Bar...: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
X'ed Out
Peaches for Father Francis: A Novel
Comic Book History of Comics
Snowblind
Jacqueline Kennedy : The White House Years: Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
Echo: The Complete Edition
The Encyclopedia of Magic & Witchcraft: An Illustrated Historical Reference to Spiritual Worlds
Life After Death
Tori Amos: All These Years: The Authorized Biography
Books I've Already Recommended to People:
The Obamas
The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice
Bossypants
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns)
The Onion Presents Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, and Moral Rectitude from America's Finest News Source 1988-2008
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
Girl Walks into a Bar...: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
Cupcakes, Cookies & Pie, Oh, My!
Most Disappointing Books:
The Three Incestuous Sisters: An Illustrated Novel
Lucky
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns)
Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
The Sigh
Comic Book History of Comics
Peaches for Father Francis: A Novel
Life After Death
Most Depressing (as in Sadness-Inducing) Books:
Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
Life After Death
Most Uplifting Books:
Bossypants
Name All the Animals
Girl Walks into a Bar...: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
Cupcakes, Cookies & Pie, Oh, My!
Peaches for Father Francis: A Novel
The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopaedia Of Existing Information
Life After Death