Saturday, January 05, 2013

End of the Year Book ROUNDUP!


This book list is all 114 books I read last year. Missed my ultimate goal by six, missed my LY by 1. Not too shabby, though.

 January:
01 The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas (started at the tail end of 2011)
02 Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher
03 Bossypants, Tina Fey
04 Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man, Chaz Bono
05 The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever, Julia Quinn
06 Among Others, Jo Walton
07 The Virgin's Lover, Phillipa Gregory
08 Miserere, Teresa Frohock
09 Some Dream for Fools, Faisa Guene
10 4000 Years of Uppity Women: Rebellious Belles, Daring Dames, and Headstrong Heroines Through The Ages; Vicky Leon

February

11 Islands, Alistair MacLeod (I had been reading it off and on in 2011)
12 Blood Rights, Kristen Painter
13 Perfume, Patrick Suskind
14 Right Hand Magic, Nancy Collins
15 The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519, Christopher Hibbert
16 Rapunzel, Leila Bryce Sin
17 The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily; Nancy Goldstone
18 Zazen, Vanessa Veselka
19 The Sum of Our Days, Isabel Allende
20 Fear of Landing: You Fly Like a Woman, Sylvia Wrigley Spruck

March

21 Flesh and Blood, Kristen Painter
22 Bad Blood, Kristen Painter
23 Timeless, Gail Carriger
24 Of Blood and Honey, Stina Lecht
25 This Side of the Grave, Jeaniene Frost
26 Empire State, Adam Christopher
27 Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women, Elizabeth Kerri Mahon
28 Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages; Leland Gregory
29 Finnikin of the Rock, Melina Marchetta
30 Heidi, Johanna Spyri
31 The Hour of Dust and Ashes, Kelly Gay
32 A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs

April

33 Go the Fuck to Sleep, Adam Mansbach
34 Ladies Coupe, Anita Nair
35 The Warrior's Path, Catherine M. Wilson
36 The Nuremburg Trials, Ann Tusa
37 For the Sake of Sin, Suzie Grant
38 The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, Mary Seacole
39 Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters, Logan Marshall

May

40 Game of Survival, Marijane Meaker
41 Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg
42 The Stolen Crown: The Secret Marriage that Forever Changed the Fate of England, Susan Higganbotham
43 The Loss of the SS Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons, Lawrence Beesley
44 Vixen; Samantha Derr, ed.
45 Naamah's Blessing, Jacqueline Carey
46 The Hangman's Daughter, Oliver Potzsch
47 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeannette Winterson
48 Lesbian Crushes and Bulimia: A Diary on How I Acquired My Eating Disorder, Natasha Holme
49 Blackout, Mira Grant
50 Countdown, Mira Grant
51 The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle
52 Wicked Desires, Eliza Lloyd

June

53 The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution, Thomas P. Slaughter
54 Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory, and Justice in Guatemala, Ana Arana
55 A Cold Day for Murder, Dana Stabenow
56 Red Velvet and Absinthe: Paranormal Erotic Romance, Mitzi Szereto
57 After the Apple: Women in the Bible: Timeless Stories of Love, Lust, and Longing; Naomi Harris Rosenblatt
58 The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
59 Far Above Rubies, Cynthia Polansky
60 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth Graeme-Smith
61 Vlad: the Last Confession, CC Humphries
62 The Forever Queen, Helen Hollick
63 America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines; Gail Collins

July

64 Henry VIII's Seventh, Steve Farndon
65 Steamlust: Steampunk Erotic Fiction, Kristina Wright
66 Taking Instruction, Cheyenne McCrae
67 Fed, Mira Grant
68 San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the Californa Browncoats, Mira Grant
69 On Call in Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story, Dr Richard Jadick
70 Veil of Pearls, ML Tyndall
71 Island in the Sea of Time, SM Sterling
72 Sicko, I Set You Free: A Treasury of Erotica for the Easily Amused, Soren Narnia

August

73 World War Z, Max Brooks
74 50 Shades of Romney (Hint, They're All White), Tim Young
75 Futility or The Wreck of the Titan, Morgan Robertson
76 Isaac's Army: The Jewish Resistance in Occupied Poland, Matthew Brzezinsky
77 Romans de la Table Ronde: Erec et Enide, Cliges, Lancelot, Yvain; Chretien de Troyes
78 Shadows Before the Sun, Kelly Gay
79 Different Strokes: How I (Gulp) Wrote, Directed, and Starred in an X Rated Movie; Lawrence Block
80 The Gate 2: 13 Tales of Isolation and Despair, Robert J. Duperre, ed.
81 Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
82 Kidnapped at the Altar, Laura Jean Libby
83 Gregor the Overlander, Suzanne Collins
84 Grace Doll, Jennifer Laurens

September

85 Deadgirl, BC Johnson
86 Navajo Code Talkers, Nathan Aaseng
87 While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement, Carolyn Maull McKinstry
88 Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Sandra Cisneros
89 John Dies at the End, David Wong
90 Pollyanna, Eleanor Porter
91 Dark Futures: Tales of Dystopia SF, Jason Sizemore ed.
92 Time Up, Justin McLaughlin
93 The City of Refuge, Diana Wilder

October

94 The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R, Carole DeSanti
95 Breakdown, Katherine Amt Hanna
96 For the King's Favor, Elizabeth Chadwick
97 The Gate: 13 Dark and Odd Tales, Robert J. Duperre ed.
98 Room, Emma Donoghue
99 Master of Disguise, Antonio J Mendez
100 After the Rising, Orna Ross
101 City of Women, David Gillham

November

102 Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic, Jennifer Niven
103 Out for Blood, Kristen Painter
104 Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Michael Oren (the book that ate November)

December

105 The Kings' Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin; Elizabeth Goldsmith
106 The Ships We Sail, Miriam Oudon, ed.
107 In My Skin: A Memoir, Kate Holden
108 The Bloodletter's Daughter, Linda Lafferty
109 Russian Disco, Wladimir Kaminer
110 Genesis, Bernard Beckett
111 Gathering of Waters, Bernice McFadden
112 Bitten: Dark Erotic Stories, Susie Bright,ed.
113 The Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
114 His Last Duchess, Gabrielle Kimm

Coming Soon: A Summary of The Best/Worst/Other these Were!



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