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 | |
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 A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five |
George R.R. Martin | |
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 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 | |
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 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 | |
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 Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War |
Megan Kate Nelson | |
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 Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2) |
Suzanne Collins | |
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 Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3) |
Suzanne Collins | |
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 Show Time |
Phil Harvey | Review |
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 The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt |
T.J. Stiles | Review |
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 Cutting-Edge Cycling |
Hunter Allen | |
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 Gone Girl |
Gillian Flynn | |
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 Pines |
Blake Crouch | |
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 Amazing Gracie: A Dog’s Tale |
Dan Dye | |
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 The Age of Miracles |
Karen Thompson Walker | |
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 Sharp Objects |
Gillian Flynn | |
|
 Already Gone |
John Rector | |
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 Nine Steps to Sara |
Lisa Olsen | |
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 The Walking Dead, Book 8 |
Robert Kirkman | |
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 The American Alpine Journal 2012 |
John III Harlin | |
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 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 | |
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 Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End |
Manel Loureiro | |
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 The Dead Room |
Robert Ellis | |
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 Make Magic! Do Good! |
Dallas Clayton | Review |
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 xkcd: volume 0 |
Randall Munroe | |
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 Save Yourself, Mammal!: A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Collection |
Zach Weinersmith | |
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 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 | |
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 The Remaining |
D.J. Molles | |
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 No-Man’s Lands: One Man’s Odyssey Through The Odyssey |
Scott Huler | Review |