The Goal
One of my recurring annual goals is to finish reading at least 26 books for the year. In 2012, I managed to finish 36. Although, 6 of those were lighter reads. So maybe I should discount those and bring it down to 30. In any event, I exceeded my goal. The full list is below.
2012 Reading List
Title | Author | Rating | |
How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything |
Dov Seidman | Review |
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Defending Jacob: A Novel |
William Landay | Review |
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The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways | Earl Swift | Review |
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Ten Tea Parties: Patriotic Protests That History Forgot | Joseph Cummins | ||
A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five | George R.R. Martin | ||
Why the Law Is So Perverse |
Leo Katz | Review |
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business |
Charles Duhigg | Review |
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A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan | ||
The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family |
Liza Mundy | Review |
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Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston |
Michael Rawson | Review |
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The Walking Dead, Book 7 | Robert Kirkman | ||
Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War | Megan Kate Nelson | ||
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2) | Suzanne Collins | ||
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3) | Suzanne Collins | ||
Show Time |
Phil Harvey | Review |
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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt |
T.J. Stiles | Review | |
Cutting-Edge Cycling | Hunter Allen | ||
Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | ||
Pines | Blake Crouch | ||
Amazing Gracie: A Dog’s Tale | Dan Dye | ||
The Age of Miracles | Karen Thompson Walker | ||
Sharp Objects | Gillian Flynn | ||
Already Gone | John Rector | ||
Nine Steps to Sara | Lisa Olsen | ||
The Walking Dead, Book 8 | Robert Kirkman | ||
The American Alpine Journal 2012 | John III Harlin | ||
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author,Who Went in Search of Them | Donovan Hohn | ||
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End | Manel Loureiro | ||
The Dead Room | Robert Ellis | ||
Make Magic! Do Good! |
Dallas Clayton | Review |
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xkcd: volume 0 | Randall Munroe | ||
Save Yourself, Mammal!: A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Collection | Zach Weinersmith | ||
The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable |
James Owen Weatherall | Review |
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The Most Dangerous Game: A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Collection | Zach Weinersmith | ||
The Remaining | D.J. Molles | ||
No-Man’s Lands: One Man’s Odyssey Through The Odyssey |
Scott Huler | Review |