List the Books You Read in 2012, and Rate Them

[Reader of Books]

Books read in 2012

1. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood -- 9/10.
2. Dubliners by James Joyce -- 7/10.
3. The Book of Joby by Mark J. Ferrari -- 8/10.
4. Collected Fictions by J.L. Borges -- 8/10.
5. American Gods by Niel Gaiman -- 7/10.
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë -- 7/10.
7. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie -- 8.5/10.
8. The City and the City by China Meiville -- 8/1010.
9. Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeff Loeb and Tim Sale -- 8.5/10.
10. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien -- 10/10.
11. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins -- 6.5/10.
12. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson -- 6/1013. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron -- 9/10.
14. The Iliad by Homer -- 6/10.
15. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke -- 9/10.
16. Trumpet by Jackie Kay -- 8/10.
17. The Pagoda by Patricia Powell -- 6/10.
18. The Best Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant -- 6/10.
19. Bel Canto by Ann Pratchett -- 7/10.
20. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk -- 5/10.
21. Night by Elie Wiesel -- 7/10.
22. The Best Short Stories of O. Henry -- 7/10.
23. Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- 8/10.
24. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins -- 7.5/10.
25. The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov -- 5/10.
26. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy -- 8/10.
27. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins -- 7.5/10.
28. Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- 7/10.
29. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd -- 7/10.
30. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison -- 9/10.
31. The Aspern Papers by Henry James -- 5/10.
32. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James -- 6/10.
33. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski -- 9/10.
34. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien -- 8/10.
35. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons -- 8/10.
36. The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov -- 8/10.
37. The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller -- 8/10.
38. Labyrinths by J.L. Borges -- 9/10.
39. The Aeneid by Virgil -- 8.5/10
40. The Trial by Franz Kafka -- 7/10.
41. Grettir's Saga by Jesse Byock (translator) -- 5/10.
42. Sir Gawain and the Green Night by Burton Raffel (translator) -- 8.5/10.
43. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino -- 7.5/10.
44. Candide by Voltaire -- 8.5/10.
45. Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman, et al -- 8.5/10.
46. The Lais of Marie de France by Glyn S. Burgess (translator) -- 9/10
47. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- 7/10.
48. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway -- 8/10.
49. Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth -- 5/10.
50. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell -- 10/10.
51. The Golden Legend (excerpts) by Jacobus de Voragine -- 7.5/10.
52. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding -- 9/10.
53. Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay -- 6/10.
54. The Magus by John Fowles -- 6/10.
55. Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli -- 8/10.
56. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman -- 7/10.
57. Life of Pi by Yann Martel -- 8.5/10.
58. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll -- 7/10.
59. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll -- 7.5/10.
60. Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman, et al -- 8/10.
61. The Giant Book of Poetry by William Roetzheim (editor) -- 8/10.
62. Moby Dick by Herman Melville -- 10/10.
63. The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King -- 8.5/10.
64. The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King -- 9/10.

[lawpark]

So, which is the one book you have read in 2012 that you liked most?

For me, it would be French Literature: A Very Short Introduction - by John Lyons.

[2X2E5]

Notes From the Underground by Dostoevsky 10/10 <3

Idiot by Dostoevsky 9/10
The Plague by Camus 9/10
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe 10/10
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera 9/10
Adolphe by Constant 8/10
Vita Nuova by Dante 7/10
Love by Stendhal 9/10

[Bibliophile79]

Here's my list. I used the 5 star rating system from my Goodreads account (but I also included 1/2 star ranks where applicable). Also included dates

January
Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire 12/31/11 - 1/8/12 ***
Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin 1/8 - 1/10 *****
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 1/10 - 1/11 *** 1/2
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss 1/11 - 1/19 *****
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman 1/19 - 1/23 *****
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk 1/23 - 1/26 ***

February
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski 1/26 - 2/3 ****
The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett 2/3 - 2/7 **
The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology by Joseph Campbell 2/7 - 2/22 **
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis 2/22 - 2/24 *****
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 2/24 - 2/28 **** 1/2

March
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 3/2 - 3/5 **
Supergods by Grant Morrison 3/5 - 3/10 *** 1/2
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs 3/10 - 3/13 ****
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 3/13 - 3/22 **** 1/2
March by Geraldine Brooks 3/22 - 3/27 ****
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore 3/27 - 3/28 *****
I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert 3/28 - 3/29 ****
Debt of Bones by Terry Goodkind 3/29 - 3/30 ****

April
Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind 3/30 - 4/9 *****
Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind 4/10 - 4/18 **** 1/2

May
Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind 4/20 - 5/1 ****
The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs 5/3-5/4 ***
Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs 5/6 - 5/8 ***
Driving Mr. Yogi by Harvey Araton 5/8 - 5/10 *****
The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King 5/10 - 5/14 ****
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami 5/14 - 5/19 **
Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters by Jean Shepherd 5/19 - 5/20 ****

June
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury 6/7 - 6/8 ****
Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith 6/8 - 6/13 **** 1/2
The Complete Far Side 1980-1994 by Gary Larson 4/25 - 6/26 **** 1/2
The Instructions by Adam Levin 6/13 - 6/28 * 1/2
Marvels by Kurt Busiek 6/26 - 6/28 *****

July
A Fistful of Fig Newtons by Jean Shepherd 6/29 - 7/1 ***
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller 6/28 - 7/1 ****
How To Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale by Jenna Jameson and Neil Strauss 7/1 - 7/3 ****
Fletch Won by Gregory McDonald 7/3 - 7/7 *** 1/2
The Reivers by William Faulkner 7/7 - 7/11 ***
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett 7/11 - 7/15 ****
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman 7/23 *****
The Sandman Vol. 2: A Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman 7/24 *****
Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 7/22 - 7/26 **** 1/2
The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman 7/28 ****
The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman 7/29 *****

August
North and South by John Jakes 7/26 - 8/3 ****
Love and War by John Jakes 8/3 - 8/18 ****
Odd Interlude by Dean Koontz 8/19 - 8/20 ****
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins 8/20 - 8/29 **
Grendel by John Gardner 8/29 - 8/30 **** 1/2

September
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey 8/30 - 9/2 ***
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore 9/3 - 9/4 **
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 9/4 - 9/12 ****
This Book Does Not Exist by Mike Schneider 9/12 - 9/14 **
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 9/14 - 9/20 ****
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter 9/20 - 9/24 **** 1/2

October
Heaven and Hell by John Jakes 9/24 - 10/8 ***
This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It by David Wong 10/8 - 10/12 ****
Baal by Robert McCammon 10/13 - 10/17 **
The Twelve by Justin Cronin 10/17 - 10/23 ****
Everything’s Eventual by Stephen King 10/24 - 10/30 ***

November
Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese 11/10 - 11/17 ***
Mercury Rises by Robert Kroese 11/17 - 11/21 **
Mercury Rests by Robert Kroese 11/21 - 11/23 **
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks 11/23 - 11/29 **

December
Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey 11/29 - 12/7 **** 1/2
City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte 12/7 - 12/ 10 *****
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling 12/10 - 12/18 ***
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker 12/18 - 12/20 ****
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 12/20 - 12/22 *** ½
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore 12/22 - 12/24 *** ½

Is there a 2013 thread floating about?

[Scheherazade]

Is there a 2013 thread floating about?

That is an impressive list, 79!

Here is the 2013 log:

http://www.online-literature.com/for...te-2013-01-365

[Bibliophile79]

Thank you. Last year was kind of a slow year though, I read 91 books in '11 lol