Reading List 2012
Well, it's December. And you know what? NaNoWriMo ATE MY LIFE. I completed the challenge but not the book, and barely read anything. I tried to continue Dreams of Terror and Death but then finished the novella I wanted to finish, also completed a short story, and then got interested in a fairy tale book and so put H.P. Lovecraft back on my shelf for next year. And Cold Mountain has been waiting on my night stand for me to pick it up again, which will happen soon.
So! What have I managed for November? Very little. I fell behind considerably in my goal, but at least got some additions. I'm currently working through a Les Miserables audiobook, Walk Two Moons, and of course Cold Mountain. I need to finish the audiobook, listen to other short(er) ones, and read some poetry collections or children's books in order to meet this year's goal. We'll see what I can do...
January:
1. Charlaine Harris - Dead as a Doornail
2. Dave Eggers - The Wild Things
3. Anne McCaffrey - If Wishes Were Horses
4 Jose Saramago - Death with Interruptions
5. Farley Mowat - Never Cry Wolf
6. Anne Bishop - The Invisible Ring
7. John Green - The Fault in Our Stars
8. Stephen R Lawhead - Tuck
9. Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry - Peter and the Starcatchers
February:
10. Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
11. Chuck Palahniuk - Damned
12. Michael Cunningham - The Hours,
13. Lewis Carrol - Through the Looking-Glass
14. Matthew Cody - Powerless
15. Charlaine Harris - Definitely Dead
16. W. B. Yeats - Collected Poems
17. Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
March:
18. Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle
19. Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love
20. Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
21. Julia Glass - Three Junes
22. T. S. Eliot - Old Possom's Book of Practical Cats
23. Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess
24. M.T. Anderson - The Feed
25. Barry Lopez - Of Wolves and Men
April:
26. Michael Morpurgo - War Horse
27. Cherie Priest - Boneshaker
28. George R. R. Martin - Game of Thrones
29. Nancy Farmer - The House of the Scorpion
30. John C. Hull - On Sight and Insight
31. Robert Gibb - Sheet Music
May:
32. Mary Crockett Hill - A Theory of Everything
33. Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen - Out of Africa
34. Esi Edugyan - Half-Blood Blues
35. Jennifer Egan - A Visit From the Goon Squad
36. Judith Vollmer - The Water Books
37. Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
June:
38. Giovanni Arpino - Scent of a Woman
39. M. T. Anderson - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1 The Pox Party
40. Robert Busch - The Wolf Almanac
41. Gailmarie Pahmeier - Shake It and It Snows
42. Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending
43. Matt Terhune - Bathhouse Betty
44. Gigi Marks - Shelter
45. Joanne Greenberg - Of Such Small Differences
46. Thomas More - Utopia
47. Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
July:
48. Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus
49. Sophocles - Antigone
50. Shirley Ann Grau - Keepers of the House
51. Robert Kurson - Crashing Through
52. Julie Otsuka - The Buddha in the Attic
53. Peter Blair - Farang
54. Charlaine Harris - All Together Dead
55. Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
56. Eric Boyd - Whiskey Sour: Short Stories
August:
57. Emily Dickinson - The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
58. Susan Sontag - In America
59. Yann Martel - Life of Pi
60. Annie Dillard - Teaching a Stone to Talk
61. Israel Centeno - Bamboo City
62. Luis Alberto Urrea - Sonoran Desert Sutras
63. Jan Beatty - Ravage
64. Katherine Ayers - One-eyed Cat
65. Chauna Craig - Eden Way
66. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
67. Samuel Hazo - Song of the Horse
68. Liane Ellison Norman - Roundtrip
69. Thom Dawkins - After Alluvium
September:
70. Clamp - Chobits
71. Eds. Leni C. Wiltsie and Emily R. Cerrone - The Thing With Feathers: An Anthology of Writing from Words Without Walls
72. Jim Henson - It's Not Easy Being Green
73. Toni Morrison - Home
74. D. H. Lawrence - The Lost Girl
75. Susan Orlean - My Kind of Place
76. Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
77. Matthew S. Moore - Chalk & Fire
78. D'Arcy Fallon - Hot Monkey Love
79. Carlton Mellick III - Red World
80. John Lithgow - Drama: An Actor's Education
81. Geraldine Brooks - March
82. Wendy Pini - ElfQuest: Hidden Years
October:
83. Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth
84. Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
85. Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
86. Antoine de Saint Exupery - The Little Prince
87. Matthew Dicks - Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
88. Seth Grahame-Smith - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
89. Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire
November:
90. Seth Grahame-Smith - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
91. Katheryn Erskine - Mockingbird
Apparently this book came about because of the Virginia Tech shootings. It's about a young girl whose mother died of cancer years prior and whose older brother was killed in a middle school shooting. The girl has Asperger's syndrome and makes it known in the first chapter or so. I much preferred Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend to this. The author wanted to show how people with Asperger's are normal, too, and I don't think she managed because she brought it to the forefront of everything instead of just having it be... there. The whole story is about closure and the girl making friends and learning about empathy. It's a decent read, though.
92. Jack Zipes - Don't Bet on the Prince
I have a long list of fairy tale lit crit books on my Amazon wish list. My friend got this one for me a couple years ago. When I began NaNoWriMo, it called to me. It turns out that, according to this book, my NaNoWriMo novel is a feminist fairy tale. I suspected as much, but the book confirmed it. It's interesting. It began with an essay, then had a part with feminist fairy tales, and then continued with a handful of more lit crit essays. It was entertaining and fascinating and I'm very glad I read it.
December:
93. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
This has been open on my Android Kindle for a while. The problem with this story is that you can't read a little bit and then return to it a few weeks later and be able to pick up where you left off. So, because of the looming deadline and the fact that I can't stop and go with this one, I decided to finish it. The percentages flew by, so it only took about a day and a half, if that. I'm not too impressed by the book. I think what impressed me more was the fact that it's an old sailor telling other sailors about an event that he survived, and the punctuation marks actually matched and made things easy to understand. It's all about slavery and wilderness and "darker" environments that make a person investigate their inner souls, and such. I probably would've gotten more from this if I had read it in school.
So! What have I managed for November? Very little. I fell behind considerably in my goal, but at least got some additions. I'm currently working through a Les Miserables audiobook, Walk Two Moons, and of course Cold Mountain. I need to finish the audiobook, listen to other short(er) ones, and read some poetry collections or children's books in order to meet this year's goal. We'll see what I can do...
January:
1. Charlaine Harris - Dead as a Doornail
2. Dave Eggers - The Wild Things
3. Anne McCaffrey - If Wishes Were Horses
4 Jose Saramago - Death with Interruptions
5. Farley Mowat - Never Cry Wolf
6. Anne Bishop - The Invisible Ring
7. John Green - The Fault in Our Stars
8. Stephen R Lawhead - Tuck
9. Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry - Peter and the Starcatchers
February:
10. Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
11. Chuck Palahniuk - Damned
12. Michael Cunningham - The Hours,
13. Lewis Carrol - Through the Looking-Glass
14. Matthew Cody - Powerless
15. Charlaine Harris - Definitely Dead
16. W. B. Yeats - Collected Poems
17. Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
March:
18. Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle
19. Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love
20. Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
21. Julia Glass - Three Junes
22. T. S. Eliot - Old Possom's Book of Practical Cats
23. Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess
24. M.T. Anderson - The Feed
25. Barry Lopez - Of Wolves and Men
April:
26. Michael Morpurgo - War Horse
27. Cherie Priest - Boneshaker
28. George R. R. Martin - Game of Thrones
29. Nancy Farmer - The House of the Scorpion
30. John C. Hull - On Sight and Insight
31. Robert Gibb - Sheet Music
May:
32. Mary Crockett Hill - A Theory of Everything
33. Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen - Out of Africa
34. Esi Edugyan - Half-Blood Blues
35. Jennifer Egan - A Visit From the Goon Squad
36. Judith Vollmer - The Water Books
37. Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
June:
38. Giovanni Arpino - Scent of a Woman
39. M. T. Anderson - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1 The Pox Party
40. Robert Busch - The Wolf Almanac
41. Gailmarie Pahmeier - Shake It and It Snows
42. Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending
43. Matt Terhune - Bathhouse Betty
44. Gigi Marks - Shelter
45. Joanne Greenberg - Of Such Small Differences
46. Thomas More - Utopia
47. Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
July:
48. Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus
49. Sophocles - Antigone
50. Shirley Ann Grau - Keepers of the House
51. Robert Kurson - Crashing Through
52. Julie Otsuka - The Buddha in the Attic
53. Peter Blair - Farang
54. Charlaine Harris - All Together Dead
55. Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
56. Eric Boyd - Whiskey Sour: Short Stories
August:
57. Emily Dickinson - The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
58. Susan Sontag - In America
59. Yann Martel - Life of Pi
60. Annie Dillard - Teaching a Stone to Talk
61. Israel Centeno - Bamboo City
62. Luis Alberto Urrea - Sonoran Desert Sutras
63. Jan Beatty - Ravage
64. Katherine Ayers - One-eyed Cat
65. Chauna Craig - Eden Way
66. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
67. Samuel Hazo - Song of the Horse
68. Liane Ellison Norman - Roundtrip
69. Thom Dawkins - After Alluvium
September:
70. Clamp - Chobits
71. Eds. Leni C. Wiltsie and Emily R. Cerrone - The Thing With Feathers: An Anthology of Writing from Words Without Walls
72. Jim Henson - It's Not Easy Being Green
73. Toni Morrison - Home
74. D. H. Lawrence - The Lost Girl
75. Susan Orlean - My Kind of Place
76. Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
77. Matthew S. Moore - Chalk & Fire
78. D'Arcy Fallon - Hot Monkey Love
79. Carlton Mellick III - Red World
80. John Lithgow - Drama: An Actor's Education
81. Geraldine Brooks - March
82. Wendy Pini - ElfQuest: Hidden Years
October:
83. Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth
84. Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
85. Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
86. Antoine de Saint Exupery - The Little Prince
87. Matthew Dicks - Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
88. Seth Grahame-Smith - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
89. Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire
November:
90. Seth Grahame-Smith - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
91. Katheryn Erskine - Mockingbird
Apparently this book came about because of the Virginia Tech shootings. It's about a young girl whose mother died of cancer years prior and whose older brother was killed in a middle school shooting. The girl has Asperger's syndrome and makes it known in the first chapter or so. I much preferred Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend to this. The author wanted to show how people with Asperger's are normal, too, and I don't think she managed because she brought it to the forefront of everything instead of just having it be... there. The whole story is about closure and the girl making friends and learning about empathy. It's a decent read, though.
92. Jack Zipes - Don't Bet on the Prince
I have a long list of fairy tale lit crit books on my Amazon wish list. My friend got this one for me a couple years ago. When I began NaNoWriMo, it called to me. It turns out that, according to this book, my NaNoWriMo novel is a feminist fairy tale. I suspected as much, but the book confirmed it. It's interesting. It began with an essay, then had a part with feminist fairy tales, and then continued with a handful of more lit crit essays. It was entertaining and fascinating and I'm very glad I read it.
December:
93. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
This has been open on my Android Kindle for a while. The problem with this story is that you can't read a little bit and then return to it a few weeks later and be able to pick up where you left off. So, because of the looming deadline and the fact that I can't stop and go with this one, I decided to finish it. The percentages flew by, so it only took about a day and a half, if that. I'm not too impressed by the book. I think what impressed me more was the fact that it's an old sailor telling other sailors about an event that he survived, and the punctuation marks actually matched and made things easy to understand. It's all about slavery and wilderness and "darker" environments that make a person investigate their inner souls, and such. I probably would've gotten more from this if I had read it in school.