2012 Reading List
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I always try to make my first post of the year my reading list for the year, so I can find it easily. Last year I read 77 books, 10 of which were nonfiction. I'm going to try to make that 15 nonfiction in the coming year.
2012 Reading List
* nonfiction
2012 Reading List
- The Body Finder - Kimberly Derting
- Kitty's Greatest Hits - Carrie Vaughn
- Chalice - Robin McKinley
- Phoenix Dance - Dia Calhoun
- Dragon Age: The Calling - David Gaider
- A Long Long Sleep - Anna Sheehan
- The Ghost and the Goth - Stacey Kade
- Beauty - Robin McKinley
- Desires of the Dead - Kimberly Derting
- The Candidates - Inara Scott
- Star Crossed - Elizabeth C. Bunce (REALLY GOOD)
- The Urban Fantasy Anthology - ed. Peter S. Beagle & Joe R. Lansdale (I am totally counting this a read, even though I stopped reading two of the stories halfway through because of disgusting misogyny in one and disgusting blasphemy in the other.)
- Blackveil - Kristen Britain (will someone please read the sequel when it comes out and just tell me what happens? I am sick of reading spoiled whiny characters and poorly edited writing just to find out if Zachary and Karigan ever bloody get together.)
- Liar's Moon - Elizabeth C. Bunce
- Forever - Maggie Stiefvater
- A Matter of Profit - Hilari Bell (EVERY BOOK I have read by Hilari Bell has been amazingly insightful and unique. I will always read this woman's books.)
- Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots - Abby McDonald
- Down These Strange Streets - ed by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois
- Carpathia - Matt Forbeck
- Thirteenth Child - Patricia C. Wrede
- Blood Red Road - Moira Young (GO READ THIS RIGHT NOW!)
- Honor's Paradox - P.C. Hodgell
- Under Attack - Hannah Jayne
- The Grimm Legacy - Polly Schumann
- Echoes of Betrayal - Elizabeth Moon
- Delirium - Lauren Oliver
- Across the Universe - Beth Revis
- Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community - Andrew Marin*
- Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity - Adam Hamilton*
- Armed and Magical - Lisa Shearin
- The Trouble With Demons - Lisa Shearin
- Bewitched and Betrayed - Lisa Shearin
- Con and Conjure - Lisa Shearin
- Love Wins - Rob Bell* (? Do I call this nonfiction when I think his theology is shaky?)
- Welcome to Bordertown - ed. by Holly Black & Ellen Kushner
- The Five Love Languages for Singles - Gary Chapman*
- Gabriel: Zero Point - Steve Umstead
- Surrender None - Elizabeth Moon
- Insurgent - Veronica Roth
- A Bride's Story 2 - Kaoru Mori
- The Sword & the Pen: A Life of Lew Wallace - Ray E. Boomhower*
- Grave Memory - Kalayna Price
- The Sleeping Doll - Jeffery Deaver
- The Boy from the O - Sandy Kendall
- Sisters Red - Jackson Pearce
- Once Was Lost - Sara Zarr
- Greatshadow - James Maxey
- The Explosionist - Jenny Davidson
- The Love Talker - Elizabeth Peters
- The Bride's Baby - Liz Fielding
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen*
- Cold Magic - Kate Elliott
- Deerskin - Robin McKinley
- A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master - Rachel Held Evans*
- The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
- She Loves You, She Loves You Not... - Julie Anne Peters
- The Third Gate - Lincoln Child
- Pandemonium - Lauren Oliver
- Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas
- Haiku for the Single Girl - Beth Griffenhagen*
- Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (I realize this is a NYT Bestseller, but it irked me to no end that they seem to think live ammunition is used in Civil War reenactments. Um, no, dipshits, that would NEVER happen, unless y'all in the south take it WAY more seriously than we Northerners. Sheesh.)
- Till We Have Face - C.S. Lewis
- Across the Great Barrier - Patricia Wrede
- Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
* nonfiction