2012 Reading List

January 2012 – Last year I wanted to read 75 books, but due to studies and other commitments I only managed 57. These books are listed below. This year to bring some focus to my reading I’ve signed up for a number of reading challenges. These challenges are listed elsewhere on this blog and the total of books I’ve committed to read for these challenges is 48, but I anticipate reading others outside of this. This means I hope to read about 60 books, which should be fairly realistic.

This years reading is as follows:

1. ‘The Sisters Brothers’ – Patrick deWitt (January 5)
2. ‘We All Fall Down’ – Eric Walters (January 6)
3. ‘Watch For the Light: Readings for advent and Christmas’ – Plough Publishing House (January 7)
4. ‘No Country For Old Men’ – Cormac McCarthy (January 10)
5. ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ – Ernest Hemingway (January 12)
6. ‘The Invention of Hugo Cabret’ – Brian Selznick (January 15)
7. ‘Robopocalypse’ – Daniel H. Wilson (January 20)
8. ‘Wonderstruck’ – Brian Selznick (January 22)
9. ‘Prince Caspian’ – C.S. Lewis (January 23)
10. ‘Greenvoe’ – George Mackay Brown (January 30)
11. ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ – Oscar Wilde (February 1)
12. ‘A Complicated Kindness’ – Miriam Toews (February 18)
13. ‘The Sign of the Four: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel’ – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle/I.N.J. Culbard/Ian Edginton (February 22)
14. ‘Leviathan’ – Scott Westerfeld (February 24)
15. ‘The Last Lecture’ – Randy Pausch (February 26)
16. ‘The Practice of the Presence of God’ – Brother Lawrence (February 29)
17. ‘When True Simplicity is Gained’ – Martin E. Marty, Micah Marty (March 4)
18. ‘Surfacing’ – Margaret Atwood (March 7)
19. ‘Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1′ – Stephenie Meyer, Young Kim (March 11)
20. ‘Mudhouse Sabbath’ – Lauren F. Winner (March 16)
21. ‘The Stranger’ – Albert Camus (March 18)
22. ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children’ – Ransom Riggs (March 20)
23. ‘The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories’ – Tim Burton (March 22)
24. ‘The Hunger Games’ – Suzanne Collins (March 30)
25. ‘Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation’ – Tim Hamilton (April 2)
26. ‘The Last Eyewitness: The Final Week’ – Chris Seay and David Capes (April 8)
27. ‘How To Make An American Quilt’ – Whitney Otto (April 17)
28. ‘Behemoth’ – Scott Westerfeld (April 21)
29. ‘The Martian Chronicles’ – Ray Bradbury (April 23)
30. ‘The 39 Steps’ – John Buchan (April 26)
31. ‘The Book Thief’ – Markus Zusak (May 2)
32. ‘Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter’ – Plough Publishing House (May 3)
33. ‘The Orkney Scroll’ – Lyn Hamilton (May 4)
34. ‘The Earthquake Machine’ – Mary Pauline Lowry (May 10)
35. ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ – Seth Grahame-Smith (May 19)
36. ‘Never Let Me Go’ – Kazuo Ishiguro (May 22)
37. ‘Goliath’ – Scott Westerfeld (May 27)
38. ‘Silver’ – Andrew Motion (June 2)
39. ‘Seraphina’ – Rachel Hartman (June 8)
40. ‘The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel’ – Rick Riordan, Robert Venditti,  José Villarrubia, Attila Futaki (June 14)
41. ‘Inukshuk’ – Gregory Spatz (June 18)
42. ‘The Wars’ – Timothy Findley (June 20)
43. ‘The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen’ – Susin Nielsen (June 21)
44. ‘The Twilight Zone: The Odyssey of Flight 33′ – Rod Sterling (June 29)
45. ‘The Light Between Oceans’ – M.L. Stedman (July 5)
46. ‘Mik Murdoch: Boy Superhero’ – Michell Plested (July 7)
47. ‘Ayn Rand’s Anthem’ – Charles Santino, Joe Staton (Illustrator), Ayn Rand (July 7)
48. ‘Catching Fire’ – Suzanne Collins (July 8)
49. ‘Mockingjay’ – Suzanne Collins (July 10)
50. ‘The Shipping News’ – E. Annie Proulx (July 16)
51. ‘How the Scots Invented Canada’ – Ken McGoogan (July 29)
52. ‘The Flood’ – Ian Rankin (July 31)
53. ‘The Secret Hour’ – Scott Westerfeld (August 2)
54. ‘Section 132′ – Helga Zeiner (August 14)
55. ‘Touching Darkness’ – Scott Westerfeld (August 22)
56. ‘The Hobbit’ – J.R.R. Tolkien (August 25)
57. ‘Jewels’ – Lakisha Spletzer (August 31)
58. ‘Sailor Twain: Or: The Mermaid in the Hudson’ – Mark Siegel (September 3)
59. ‘Blue Noon’ – Scott Westerfeld (September 6)
60. ‘Circle of Fire’ – S.M. Hall (September 8)
61. ‘Breaking the Circle’ – S.M. Hall (September 12)
62. ‘The Graveyard Book’ – Neil Gaiman (September 14)
63. ‘The Road’ – Cormac McCarthy (September 19)
64. ‘Coraline’ – Neil Gaiman (September 22)
65. ‘Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein’ – Jonathan Cott (September 30)
66. ‘The Raven and Other Poems’ – Edgar Allan Poe (October 3)
67. ‘Drops Like Stars: A Few Thoughts on Creativity and Suffering’ – Rob Bell (October 8)
68. ‘Comet in Moominland’ – Tove Jansson (October 9)
69. ‘Fattypuffs and Thinifers’ – Andre Maurois (October 14)
70. ‘The Casual Vacancy’ – J.K. Rowling (October 16)
71. ‘Clockwork, Or, All Wound Up’ – Philip Pullman (October 26)
72. ‘Sasha Plotkin’s Deceit’ – Vaughn Sherman (October 31)
73. ‘ParaNorman’ – Elizabeth Cody Kimmel (November 9)
74. ‘Have A Little Faith’ – Mitch Albom (November 11)
75. ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ – Jonathan Safran Foer (November 15)
76. ‘War Horse’ – Michael Morpurgo (November 28)
77. ‘Farm Boy’ – Michael Morpurgo (November 30)
78. ‘Night Shift’ – Stephen King (December 4)
79. ‘Skipping Christmas’ – John Grisham (December 5)
80. ‘A Christmas Carol’ – Charles Dickens’ (December 11)
81. ‘Where Were You?’ – Gloria Jean Hansen (December 16)
82. ‘Clockwork Angels: The Novel’ – Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart (December 30)
83. ‘The City of Ember: The Graphic Novel’ – Jeanne DuPrau, Dallas Middaugh, Niklas Asker (December 30)