Books read in 2012

[tamaranth]

67 books read in 2012
By gender
33 by women, 32 by men, 2 by K J Parker and one by Poppy Brite
By genre (with some crossovers)...
10 SF
26 fantasy
3 historical
8 crime / thriller
6 YA
2 non-fiction
12 for Coursera courses [though I haven't included the fragments of Aeneid, Homeric Hymns, various tragedies]
Top Six
Ragnarok: The End of the Gods -- A S Byatt
Among Others -- Jo Walton
The Magician King -- Lev Grossman
Deep Ancestry -- Spencer Wells
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms -- N K Jemisin
Runelight -- Joanne Harris
The Left Hand of Darkness -- Ursula Le Guin (never mind that it's the latest of many rereads)

I'd normally also note number of books purchased, but that's becoming less accurate as I tend not to add e-books to LibraryThing until I get around to reading them.



Last Movement--Joan Aiken
The Hurricane Party (Myths)--Klas Östergren
The Sea--John Banville
Secret Harmonies--Andrea Barrett
Servant of the Underworld (Obsidian and Blood)--Aliette de Bodard
Martian Chronicles--Ray Bradbury
Second Line: Two Short Novels of Love and Cooking in New Orleans--Poppy Z Brite
The Brief History of the Dead--Kevin Brockmeier
The Siren--Alison Bruce
A Princess of Mars--Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ragnarok: the End of the Gods (Myths)--A. S. Byatt
The Annotated Alice--Lewis Carroll
Little Brother--Cory Doctorow
Cradle Song--Robert Edric
The Invisible Circus--Jennifer Egan
The Sea Road--Margaret Elphinstone
Boneland--Alan Garner
Red Shift--Alan Garner
Herland--Charlotte Perkins Gilman
11, 000 Years Lost (Amulet)--Peni R Griffin
A Room Full of Bones: Ruth Galloway Investigation 4: A Ruth Galloway Investigation--Elly Griffiths
Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm--Jacob Grimm
The Magician King--Lev Grossman
The Other Wind--Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness (An orbit book)--Ursula K.Le Guin
Angelmaker--Nick Harkaway
Angelica Lost and Found--Russell Hoban
The Drowning Season--Alice Hoffman
Blue Diary--Alice Hoffman
The Odyssey-- Homer, trans. Robert Fagles
The Book of Lies--Mary Horlock
Madensky Square (Bello)--Eva Ibbotson
Dead Water--Simon Ings
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: Book One of the Inheritance Trilogy (Inheritance Trilogy 1)--N. K. JemisinThe Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy)--N K. Jemisin
The Kingdom Of Gods: Book Three of the Inheritance Trilogy--N. K. Jemisin
All My Friends are Superheroes--Andrew Kaufman
Pirate King (Mary Russell Mystery 11)--Laurie R. King
Throne of Glass--Sarah J Maas
The End Specialist--Drew Magary
The Eclipse of the Century--Jan Mark
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)--George R. R. Martin
Malvolio's Revenge--Sophie Masson
Recycler--Lauren McLaughlin
MythWorld Book One: The Festival of Bones--James A. Owen
Mr Fox--Helen Oyeyemi
The Hammer--K J. Parker
Sharps--K. J. Parker
Siren--Tricia Rayburn
An Atlas of Impossible Longing--Anuradha Roy
FlashForward--Robert J. Sawyer
Frankenstein--Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Spares--Michael Marshall Smith
Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum--Mark Stevens
Dracula--Bram Stoker
Rule 34--Charles Stross
Our Tragic Universe--Scarlett Thomas
The Bookman (The Bookman Histories)--Lavie Tidhar
Osama--Lavie Tidhar
Among Others--Jo Walton
The Island of Doctor Moreau--H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man--H.G. Wells
Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project--Spencer Wells
Bareback--Kit Whitfield
Flora's Fury: How a Girl of Spirit and a Red Dog Confound Their Friends, Astound Their Enemies, and Learn the Importance of Packing--Ysabeau S. Wilce
The Chrysalids (Penguin Modern Classics)--John Wyndham
Foiled--Jane Yolen and Mike Cavallaro