My goal this year, since I had absolutely no class work to do after graduating in December, was to read 100 books. I fell way short and only got to the 50-book mark. I'd like to feel sad about that, but I also got 230 pages of a short story collection written from February to December. Win/win.
A few of the books on the list were ones that I started but didn't finish. They're in bold. I'm leaving them on here and will hopefully be finishing them shortly. For the most part, I was pretty happy with this year's choices, but there were a couple huge duds as well.
2012 Reading List:
January
01.) Steven Millhauser - "The Barnum Museum" (237pgs)
02.) Joshua Mohr - "Damascus" (206pgs)
03.) Lemony Snicket - "A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 10: The Slippery Slope" (337pgs)
04.) Stephen Beachy - "boneyard" (303pgs)
05.) Italo Calvino - "The Watcher" (181pgs)
(1,264pgs total)
February
06.) Stephen King - "Dark Tower, Book 1: The Gunslinger" (224pgs)
07.) Stephen King - "Dark Tower, Book 2: The Drawing of the Three" (400pgs)
08.) Blake Butler - "Scorch Atlas" (150pgs)
09.) Lewis Buzbee - "The Haunting of Charles Dickens" (357pgs)
10.) Stephen King - "Dark Tower, Book 3: The Waste Lands" (422pgs)
11.) Don DeLillo - "Libra" (456pgs)
(2,009pgs total)
March
12.) Stephen King - "Dark Tower, Book 4: Wizard & Glass" (672pgs)
13.) Stephen King - "Dark Tower, Book 5: Wolves of the Calla" (736pgs)
14.) Ben Marcus - "The Flame Alphabet" (304pgs)
15.) Jeremy Robert Johnson - "Extinction Journals" (84pgs)
(1,796pgs total)
April
16.) Amelia Gray - "Threats: A Novel" (278pgs)
17.) Don DeLillo - "The Body Artist" (126pgs)
18.) Don DeLillo - "Love Lies Bleeding: A Play" (97pgs)
19.) Stephen King - "Dark Tower, Book 6: Song of Susannah" (411pgs)
20.) Roberto Bolano - "The Savage Detectives" (648pgs)
21.) Robert Lopez - "Kamby Bolongo Mean River" (177pgs)
22.) Stephen King - "Dark Tower, Book 7: The Dark Tower" (845pgs)
(2,582pgs total)
May
23.) Stephen King - "Dark Tower, Book 4.5: The Wind Through the Keyhole" (307pgs)
24.) Rick Moody - "The Four Fingers of Death" (725pgs)
(1,032pgs total)
June
*none*
July
25.) Thomas Glave - "The Torturer's Wife" (262pgs)
26.) Roald Dahl - "Tales of the Unexpected" (471pgs)
27.) Lemony Snicket - "A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 11: The Grim Grotto" (323pgs)
(1,056pgs total)
August
*none*
September
28.) Steven Millhauser - "Dangerous Laughter" (244pgs)
29.) (reread) Blake Butler - "Scorch Atlas" (152pgs)
30.) David Mitchell - "Cloud Atlas" (509pgs)
31.) Don DeLillo - "Cosmopolis" (209pgs)
32.) Chuck Palahniuk - "Diary" (260pgs)
(1,374 pgs total)
October
33.) Italo Calvino - "Difficult Loves" (300pgs)
34.) Don DeLillo - "The Angel Esmerelda" (211pgs)
35.) Flannery O'Connor - "Everything That Rises Must Coverge" (320pgs)
36.) Lemony Snicket - "A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12: The Penultimate Peril" (353pgs)
37.) Mark Z. Danielewski - "The Fifty Year Sword" (288pgs)
(1,472 pgs total)
November
38.) Lemony Snicket - "A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13: The End" (368pgs)
39.) Don DeLillo - "Falling Man" (246pgs)
40.) Chris Adrian - "A Better Angel" (240pgs)
41.) Nick Bantock - "Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence" (48pgs)
42.) Ransom Riggs - "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" (352pgs)
(1,254 pgs total)
December
43.) Shirley Jackson - "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" (146pgs)
44.) Salvador Plascencia - "The People of Paper" (245pgs)
45.) Gary Lutz - "Stories in the Worst Way" (151pgs)
46.) Dexter Palmer - "The Dream of Perpetual Motion" (353pgs)
47.) Bruno Schulz - "The Street of Crocodiles" (160pgs)
48.) Ryan Boudinot - "Blueprints of the Afterlife" (427pgs)
(1,482 pgs total)
15,321 pages for the year
(24,470)
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