Here's a list of the books I read this year. I starred my favourites. As you can see, I tried to read some of the old children's classics I never read as a kid. For example: Jungle Book, Watership Down, Wind in the Willows.
I am HOME!!! Which is (I think) good. And I survived Christmas in the south. There were challenges based the the situations down there (more to follow in a later blog), but on the positive, it made me realize that things could be a lot worse (they are for certain family members).
So if you are a reader, maybe you can find a good pick for 2013 in this list.
And Happy New Year to my blogging friends.
2012
1. I am number four - Pittacus
Lore
2. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
3. David Copperfield - Charles
DIckens
4. The Power of Six - Pittacus
Lore
5. Lizard Cage - Karen Connelly
*6. The Night Circus - Erin
Morgenstern
7. Dance with Dragons - George R.
R. Martin
8. Orx and Crake - Margaret
Attwood
9. Heart of Lies - M. L. Malcolm
10. I Am Number Four: The Lost
Files: Six's Legacy - Pittacus Lore
11. Horten's Miraculous
Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery & a Very Strange Adventure - Lissa Evans
12. Inheritance - Christopher Paolini
13. How to be Sick - Toni Bernard
14. The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obriht
15. Seven Splendid Suns - Khaled
Hosseini
*16. Watership Down - Richard
Adams
17. Augusta Locke - Willian
Haywood Henderson
18. The Tiger - John Vaillant
19. Sharp North - Patrick Cave
*20. Sweetness in the Belly –
Camilla Gibb
21. Churchill on Hudson Bay -
Agnes and Bernice MacIver
22. The Chosen – Chaim Potok
23. 100 Years of Solitude -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
*24. The Diviners - Margaret Laurence
25. Harry Potter and the Goblet
of Fire – J K Rowling
26. The White Bone – Barabara
Gowdy
27. Okay for Now – Gary D.
Schmidt
28. A Good House – Bonnie Burnard
29. The Flight of Gemma Hardy –
Margot Livesey
30. The Casual Vacancy – J K
Rowling
31. Magisterium – Jeff Hirsch
32. Cat’s Table – Michael
Ondaatje
33. The Sisters Brothers –
Patrick deWitt
*34. Divergent – Veronica Roth
35. Insurgent – Veronica Roth
36. The Tower, the Zoo, and the
Tortoise – Julia Stuart
37. The Virgin Cure – Ami McKay
38. The Prisoner of Azkaban – JK
Rowling
39. The Kindness of Strangers –
Katrina Kittle
40. The Maelstrom – Henry Neff
41. Summer of the Wolves – Lisa
Williams Kline
42. The Hobbit – J R Tolkien
43. The Wind in the Willows –
Kenneth Grahame
44. Plainsong – Kent Haruf
WOW! What a long list of books...most of which I have not read! Glad to hear you are home and it is going well.....Happy New Year, upnorth.
ReplyDeleteThanks Renee, happy new years to you too, I hope it's a decent one for both of us?!
DeleteWhat a long list! What were your top 3? Good to hear you survived the trip home :) Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteHi DolceVita, I actually put some little stars by the numbers of my fav. 5 from the year (Divergent was my favourite youth fiction but wouldn't have made my favourite 5 outright to be honest). If you are a reader, check them out. Happy New Year to you too.
DeleteThat's a huge list. I could not read that many simply because my body would not allow me to do. My slow blood circulation requires some constant motion, yet not too much.
ReplyDeleteHappy new year!
Yun Yi, reading is one of the blessings I still have. And it helps me sleep. I go to bed, read a few chapters and then drift off. I love exiting my sick world for another one, it's such an escape. Wish you were able to read more. Happy New Year, I hope the year ahead is a good one for you.
DeleteGreat list! We seem to have similar interests in books, as quite a few of your books were/are on my list as well (though on audio). I'm actually about to start Divergent -- I've heard good things. I'd not heard of Sweetness in the Belly -- thanks for the tip. It's going on my to-read list! I wondered, are you on Goodreads at all?
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you! Hope it brings you better health.