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i've also decided to use this entry to keep tabs on all the books etc. i read in 2012. find me on goodreads if you want real-time reviews of the books. bolded are my top 20 favorite books of the year (excluding re-reads).
1. Josephine Tey - The Franchise Affair
2. Jackson Pearce - Sweetly
3. Emma Donoghue - Kissing the Witch
4. Enid Blyton - The Famous Five series, vols. 1-3
5. Günter Grass - The Tin Drum
6. Jennifer Crusie - Getting Rid of Bradley
7. Claire LaZebnik - The Smart One and the Pretty One
8. Enid Blyton - The Famous Five series, vols. 4-6
9. Kobayashi Soumei - 『在日朝鮮人のメディア空間』
10. Shin Gisu (ed.) - 『金達寿ルネサンス』
11. 『写真で見る在日コリアンの100年』
12. Terry Pratchett - Snuff
13. Enid Blyton - The Famous Five series, vols. 7-9
14. Bruce Cumings - Korea's Place in the Sun
15. Nnedi Okorafor - Akata Witch
16. Enid Blyton - The Famous Five series, vols. 10-12
17. Tessa Morris-Suzuki - Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War
18. Kerstin Gier - Ruby Red [translation]
19. Nnedi Okorafor - Who Fears Death
20. Elizabeth Wein - Code Name Verity
21. Enid Blyton - The Famous Five series, vols. 13-15
22. Daniel O'Malley - The Rook
23. Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides
24. Enid Blyton - The Famous Five series, vols. 16-18
25. Iwasaki Minoru (ed., et al.) - 『継続する植民地主義』
25. Josephine Tey - To Love and Be Wise
26. Enid Blyton - The Famous Five series, vols. 19-21
27. Ch'oe Hyoseon - 『海峡に立つ人-金達寿の文学と生涯』
28. P.G. Wodehouse - Jeeves in the Offing
29. Tessa Morris-Suzuki - Re-Inventing Japan
30. Lili Wilkinson - A Pocketful of Eyes
31. Tina Chen - Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture
32. Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley
33. Oguma Eiji - A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images
34. Alison Goodman - Eona
35. Hayashi Kouji - 『在日朝鮮人日本語文学論』
36. Maureen Johnson - Girl at Sea
37. Sarah Waters - Affinity
38. Hayashi Kouji - 『戦後非日文学論』
39. Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
40. Elizabeth Scott - The Unwritten Rule
41. Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
42. Elizabeth C. Bunce - Star Crossed
43. Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
44. Iwamoto Nao - 『町でうわさの天狗の子』 vols. 1-4
45. Miyamoto Yuriko - 『播州平野』
46. Chang Hyŏk-chu - 『孤児たち』
47. Elizabeth Scott - Living Dead Girl
48. John Gross [ed.] - The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
49. Kawamura Minato - 『生まれたらそこがふるさと』
50. Ngaio Marsh - A Man Lay Dead
51. Ngaio Marsh - Artists in Crime
52. Ellen Raskin - The Westing Game [re-read]
53. Sharalyn Orbaugh - Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation
54. Alethea Kontis - Enchanted
55. Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
56. Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London
57. Kamio Youko - 『虎と狼』 vols. 5-6
58. Karuho Shiiina - 『君に届け』 vol. 15
59. Iwamoto Nao - 『町でうわさの天狗の子』 vols. 5-9
60. Miyamoto Yuriko - 『風知草』
61. Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet
62. Rex Stout - Champagne for One
63. Georgette Heyer - Envious Casca
64. Georgette Heyer - They Found Him Dead
65. Kristin Cashore - Bitterblue
66. Etou Jun - 『閉された言語空間』
67. Shelley Adina - Lady of Devices
68. Shelley Adina - Her Own Devices
69. Harajiri Hideki - 『「在日」としてのコリアン』
70. Merrie Haskell - The Princess Curse
71. Rex Stout - Trouble in Triplicate
72. Georgette Heyer - Death in the Stocks
73. Elizabeth C. Bunce - Liar's Moon
74. China Miéville - Embassytown
75. Donald E. Westlake - God Save the Mark
76. Rachael Hutchinson [ed.] - Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature
77. Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind [translation]
78. Sue Townsend - The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
79. Young-ha Kim - Your Republic is Calling You [translation]
80. Ellen Raskin - Figgs & Phantoms [re-read]
81. Ben Aaronovitch - Moon Over Soho
82. Ysabeau S. Wilce - Flora's Fury
83. Rex Stout - The Mother Hunt
84. Terry Pratchett - The World of Poo
85. Ellen Raskin - The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues [re-read]
86. Kathryn Miller Haines - The Girl is Murder
87. Ellen Raskin - The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) [re-read]
88. Shannon Hale - Palace of Stone
89. Kirino Natsuo - 『I'm sorry, mama.（アイム ソーリー、ママ）』
90. Ernestine Schlant and J. Thomas Rimer [eds.], Legacies and Ambiguities: Postwar Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan
91. John Lie - Modern Peoplehood
92. Ben Aaronovitch - Whispers Under Ground
93. Junot Diaz - This is How You Lose Her
94. Yoshida Sensha - 『ぷりぷり県』 vols. 1-2
95. Jen Campbell - Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
96. Rachel Hartman - Seraphina
97. Li-Young Lee - Behind My Eyes
98. Andre Schmid - Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919
99. V.C. Andrews - Flowers in the Attic
100. P.G. Wodehouse - Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
101. James Thurber - The Wonderful O
102. Justine Larbalestier & Sarah Rees Brennan - Team Human
103. Michele Mason & Helen Lee (eds.) - Reading Colonial Japan
104. Agatha Christie - The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
105. Holly Black and Ellen Kushner [eds.] - Welcome to Bordertown
106. Patricia Highsmith - Ripley Under Ground
107. Rex Stout - Three Men Out
108. Theodore Hughes - Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier
109. Ann Sherif - Japan's Cold War
110. Rex Stout - Three Witnesses
111. Patrice Kindl - Keeping the Castle
112. Rex Stout - Trio for Blunt Instruments
113. Patricia C. Wrede - The Far West
114. Satoru Saito - Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880-1930
115. Catherynne M. Valente - Deathless
116. Rex Stout - Murder By the Book
117. Leah Scheier - Secret Letters
118. Gordon Korman - The Juvie Three
119. Agatha Christie - Poirot Investigates [re-read]
120. Agatha Christie - The Labours of Hercules [re-read]
here are some links to goodreads reviews of 2012. this is not a list of the best/worst books i read in 2012 but a list of goodreads reviews i particularly liked writing.
reviews of some books i loved:
junot diaz, this is how you lose her
catherynne m. valente, deathless
v.c. andrews, flowers in the attic
carlos ruiz zafón, the shadow of the wind
elizabeth e. wein, code name verity
reviews of some books i hated:
jeffrey eugenides, the virgin suicides
patricia wrede, the far west
patrice kindl, keeping the castle
scott lynch, the lies of locke lamora
ngaio marsh, artists in crime
i've also decided to use this entry to keep tabs on all the books etc. i read in 2012. find me on goodreads if you want real-time reviews of the books. bolded are my top 20 favorite books of the year (excluding re-reads).
1. Josephine Tey - The Franchise Affair
2. Jackson Pearce - Sweetly
3. Emma Donoghue - Kissing the Witch
4. Enid Blyton - The Famous Five series, vols. 1-3
5. Günter Grass - The Tin Drum
6. Jennifer Crusie - Getting Rid of Bradley
7. Claire LaZebnik - The Smart One and the Pretty One
8. Enid Blyton - The Famous Five series, vols. 4-6
9. Kobayashi Soumei - 『在日朝鮮人のメディア空間』
10. Shin Gisu (ed.) - 『金達寿ルネサンス』
11. 『写真で見る在日コリアンの100年』
12. Terry Pratchett - Snuff
13. Enid Blyton - The Famous Five series, vols. 7-9
14. Bruce Cumings - Korea's Place in the Sun
15. Nnedi Okorafor - Akata Witch
16. Enid Blyton - The Famous Five series, vols. 10-12
17. Tessa Morris-Suzuki - Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War
18. Kerstin Gier - Ruby Red [translation]
19. Nnedi Okorafor - Who Fears Death
20. Elizabeth Wein - Code Name Verity
21. Enid Blyton - The Famous Five series, vols. 13-15
22. Daniel O'Malley - The Rook
23. Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides
24. Enid Blyton - The Famous Five series, vols. 16-18
25. Iwasaki Minoru (ed., et al.) - 『継続する植民地主義』
25. Josephine Tey - To Love and Be Wise
26. Enid Blyton - The Famous Five series, vols. 19-21
27. Ch'oe Hyoseon - 『海峡に立つ人-金達寿の文学と生涯』
28. P.G. Wodehouse - Jeeves in the Offing
29. Tessa Morris-Suzuki - Re-Inventing Japan
30. Lili Wilkinson - A Pocketful of Eyes
31. Tina Chen - Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture
32. Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley
33. Oguma Eiji - A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images
34. Alison Goodman - Eona
35. Hayashi Kouji - 『在日朝鮮人日本語文学論』
36. Maureen Johnson - Girl at Sea
37. Sarah Waters - Affinity
38. Hayashi Kouji - 『戦後非日文学論』
39. Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
40. Elizabeth Scott - The Unwritten Rule
41. Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
42. Elizabeth C. Bunce - Star Crossed
43. Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
44. Iwamoto Nao - 『町でうわさの天狗の子』 vols. 1-4
45. Miyamoto Yuriko - 『播州平野』
46. Chang Hyŏk-chu - 『孤児たち』
47. Elizabeth Scott - Living Dead Girl
48. John Gross [ed.] - The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
49. Kawamura Minato - 『生まれたらそこがふるさと』
50. Ngaio Marsh - A Man Lay Dead
51. Ngaio Marsh - Artists in Crime
52. Ellen Raskin - The Westing Game [re-read]
53. Sharalyn Orbaugh - Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation
54. Alethea Kontis - Enchanted
55. Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
56. Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London
57. Kamio Youko - 『虎と狼』 vols. 5-6
58. Karuho Shiiina - 『君に届け』 vol. 15
59. Iwamoto Nao - 『町でうわさの天狗の子』 vols. 5-9
60. Miyamoto Yuriko - 『風知草』
61. Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet
62. Rex Stout - Champagne for One
63. Georgette Heyer - Envious Casca
64. Georgette Heyer - They Found Him Dead
65. Kristin Cashore - Bitterblue
66. Etou Jun - 『閉された言語空間』
67. Shelley Adina - Lady of Devices
68. Shelley Adina - Her Own Devices
69. Harajiri Hideki - 『「在日」としてのコリアン』
70. Merrie Haskell - The Princess Curse
71. Rex Stout - Trouble in Triplicate
72. Georgette Heyer - Death in the Stocks
73. Elizabeth C. Bunce - Liar's Moon
74. China Miéville - Embassytown
75. Donald E. Westlake - God Save the Mark
76. Rachael Hutchinson [ed.] - Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature
77. Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind [translation]
78. Sue Townsend - The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
79. Young-ha Kim - Your Republic is Calling You [translation]
80. Ellen Raskin - Figgs & Phantoms [re-read]
81. Ben Aaronovitch - Moon Over Soho
82. Ysabeau S. Wilce - Flora's Fury
83. Rex Stout - The Mother Hunt
84. Terry Pratchett - The World of Poo
85. Ellen Raskin - The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues [re-read]
86. Kathryn Miller Haines - The Girl is Murder
87. Ellen Raskin - The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) [re-read]
88. Shannon Hale - Palace of Stone
89. Kirino Natsuo - 『I'm sorry, mama.（アイム ソーリー、ママ）』
90. Ernestine Schlant and J. Thomas Rimer [eds.], Legacies and Ambiguities: Postwar Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan
91. John Lie - Modern Peoplehood
92. Ben Aaronovitch - Whispers Under Ground
93. Junot Diaz - This is How You Lose Her
94. Yoshida Sensha - 『ぷりぷり県』 vols. 1-2
95. Jen Campbell - Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
96. Rachel Hartman - Seraphina
97. Li-Young Lee - Behind My Eyes
98. Andre Schmid - Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919
99. V.C. Andrews - Flowers in the Attic
100. P.G. Wodehouse - Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
101. James Thurber - The Wonderful O
102. Justine Larbalestier & Sarah Rees Brennan - Team Human
103. Michele Mason & Helen Lee (eds.) - Reading Colonial Japan
104. Agatha Christie - The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
105. Holly Black and Ellen Kushner [eds.] - Welcome to Bordertown
106. Patricia Highsmith - Ripley Under Ground
107. Rex Stout - Three Men Out
108. Theodore Hughes - Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier
109. Ann Sherif - Japan's Cold War
110. Rex Stout - Three Witnesses
111. Patrice Kindl - Keeping the Castle
112. Rex Stout - Trio for Blunt Instruments
113. Patricia C. Wrede - The Far West
114. Satoru Saito - Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880-1930
115. Catherynne M. Valente - Deathless
116. Rex Stout - Murder By the Book
117. Leah Scheier - Secret Letters
118. Gordon Korman - The Juvie Three
119. Agatha Christie - Poirot Investigates [re-read]
120. Agatha Christie - The Labours of Hercules [re-read]
here are some links to goodreads reviews of 2012. this is not a list of the best/worst books i read in 2012 but a list of goodreads reviews i particularly liked writing.
reviews of some books i loved:
junot diaz, this is how you lose her
catherynne m. valente, deathless
v.c. andrews, flowers in the attic
carlos ruiz zafón, the shadow of the wind
elizabeth e. wein, code name verity
reviews of some books i hated:
jeffrey eugenides, the virgin suicides
patricia wrede, the far west
patrice kindl, keeping the castle
scott lynch, the lies of locke lamora
ngaio marsh, artists in crime