Books Read
Books and Short Stories Read in 2012
JANUARY
1. The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
2. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
3. Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility adapted by Nancy Butler and Sonny Liew
4. The Secret Diary of a Princess: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Melanie Clegg
5. Lady Susan by Jane Austen
6. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
7. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
FEBRUARY
8. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
9. The House that I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
10. Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
11. The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
Books and Short Stories Read in 2011
JANUARY
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
2. The Tudor Secret by CW Gortner
3. The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. The Last Pendragon: A Story of Dark Age Wales by Sarah Woodbury
5. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
6. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
7. Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt
8. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
9. Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America by Benjamin Woolley
FEBRUARY
10. The Forever Queen by Helen Hollick
11. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
12. Autumn: The City by David Moody
13. A Conspiracy of Kings by Meghan Whalen Turner
14. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
15. Emily and Einstein by Linda Frances Lee
16. Fathom by Cherie Priest
MARCH
17. The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
18. Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
19. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
20. The Gates by John Connolly
21. The Other Life by Ellen Meister
22. Twice a Spy by Keith Thomson
23. The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
24. The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
25. The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick – DNF
APRIL
26. The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
27. Minding Ben by Victoria Brown – DNF
28. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
29. Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon
30. A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin
31. Witch Woman by Jeanette Baker
32. Dawn of Avalon: Morgan and Merlin — The Beginning by Anna Elliott
33. The Gauntlet: A Kit Marlowe Short by Karen Chance
34. The Queen’s Witch: A Kit Marlowe Short by Karen Chance
MAY
35. The Hypnotist by MJ Rose
36. The Restorer by Amanda Stevens
37. Livia, Empress of Rome by Matthew Dennison
38. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
39. Abandoned by Amanda Stevens
40. Heat Wave by Richard Castle
41. Poison: A Novel of the Renaissance by Sara Poole
42. The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma
43. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
JUNE
44. Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV by Karleen Koen
45. The Dark Enquiry by Deanna Raybourn
46. The Postmortal by Drew Magary
47. Child of the Northern Spring by Persia Woolley
48. Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews
49. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins – DNF
50. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
51. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
JULY
52. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
53. A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
54. Tales of Terror and Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
55. The Darling Strumpet by Gillian Bagwell
56. Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola & John Byrne
57. Reign of Madness by Lynn Cullen
58. Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks by Juliet Eilperin
AUGUST
59. Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey
60. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
61. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
62. Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran
63. A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin
64. A Long-Forgotten Truth by Rachel Ballard
65. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jule Verne
66. Twilight of Avalon by Anna Elliott
SEPTEMBER
67. The Last Days of Henry VIII: Conspiracies, Treason, and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant by Robert Hutchinson
68. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
69. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
70. The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor
71. The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell
72. Fiction Noir: Thirteen Stories, An Anthology edited by Rick Tannenbaum
73. The Taker by Alma Katsu
74. The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen
OCTOBER
75. Captain Nemo by Kevin J. Anderson
76. The Magician King by Lev Grossman
77. The Stonehenge Legacy by Sam Christer
78. That Which Should Not Be by Brett J. Talley
79. A Crimson Warning by Tasha Alexander
80. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
81. One Way Out: Tommy Pulls the Trigger by Seymon White
82. The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffmann
83. The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons
84. Queen of the Summer Stars by Persia Woolley
85. The Queen’s Rival by Diane Haeger
NOVEMBER
86. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
87. Star Trek 7 adapted by James Blish
88. The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York City by Deborah Blum
89. The Twelfth Enchantment by David Liss
90. One Shot by Lee Child
DECEMBER
91. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
92. Lord John and the Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon
93. A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin
94. The Affair by Lee Child
95. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: Issue 1 by Nancy Butler and Janet K. Lee
96. Futurama, Issue #57, Steampunk’d, editor Bill Morrison
97. Futurama, Issue #58, Boomsday!, editor Bill Morrison
98. Murder in the Bastille by Cara Black
99. MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend by Rachel Bertsche
Books and Short Stories Read in 2010
JANUARY
1. Tender is the Night by F. Scott. Fitzgerald
2. Versailles by Kathryn Davis
3. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
5. The Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick
6. The Wife’s Tale by Lori Lansens
7. The Black Tower by Louis Bayard
8. Ligeia from The Tales of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allen Poe (short story)
9. The Fall of the House of Usher from The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe by Edger Allen Poe (short story)
10. The Midnight Guardian: A Millennial Novel by Sarah Jane Stratford
11. Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
12. Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler
13. Conspirata by Robert Harris
14. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
FEBRUARY
15. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
16. The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flaming
17. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
18. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
19. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
20. The Magicians & Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett
21. The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
MARCH
22. The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown
23. Isis: A Tale of the Supernatural by Douglas Clegg
24. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
25. The Kingmaking by Helen Hollick
26. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
27. The Creation of Eve by Lynn Cullen
28. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
29. Disquiet by Julia Leigh
30. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
31. White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi – DNF
APRIL
32. Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
33. The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb
34. A Corpse at St. Andrews Chapel by Mel Starr
35. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
36. The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley – DNF
37. The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick
38. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Connor McNees
39. Pendragon’s Banner by Helen Hollick
40. Shadow of the King by Helen Hollick
MAY
41. The Ark by Boyd Morrison
42. The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
43. Persuasion by Jane Austen
44. The Summer We Read Gatsby by Danielle Ganek
45. The City & The City by China Mievielle
46. In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield
47. Shakespeare Undead by Lori Handeland
JUNE
48. Graceling by Kristin Cashore
49. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
50. The Conquest by Elizabeth Chadwick
51. Benighted by Kit Whitfield
52. The Divine Sacrifice by Tony Hays
53. Fire by Kristin Cashore
54. Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci
JULY
55. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
56. The Dead Travel Fast by Deanna Raybourn
57. The King’s Mistress by Emma Campion
58. The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
59. The Rosetta Key by William Dietrich- DNF
60. The Scarlet Contessa by Jeanne Kalogridis
61. The Whale: In Search of Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare
62. Kraken by China Mieville
AUGUST
63. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
64. Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones
65. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
66. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
67. Howls’ Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
68. The Thieves of Manhattan by Adam Langer
69. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
70. Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch – DNF
71. The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America by Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith
72. Achilles by Elizabeth Cook
73. Life in Medieval France by E.R. Chamberlin
74. The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
75. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
SEPTEMBER
76. Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
77. Esperanza by Trish J. MacGregor
78. The Mosaic of Shadows by Tom Harper
79. Dracula in Love by Karen Essex
80. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
81. The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
82. Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
83. The Dead Path by Stephen M. Irwin
84. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
OCTOBER
85. The Clouds Beneath the Sun by Mackenzie Ford – DNF
86. A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer
87. Chasing the Night by Iris Johansen
88. Fire in the East by Harry Sidebottom – DNF
89. The Burning Times by Jeanne Kalogridis
90. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
91. Corrag by Susan Fletcher
92. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
NOVEMBER
93. The Hard Way by Lee Child
94. Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews
95. The House on Durrow Street by Galen Beckett
96. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
97. The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
98. The Exile by Diana Gabaldon
99. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
DECEMBER
100. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
101. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
102. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
103. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Books and Short Stories Read in 2009
(My first year blogging I didn’t break books out by month.)
1. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
2. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
3. Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
4. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
5. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
6. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
7. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
8. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
9. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
10. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
11. Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
12. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland &
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
13. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
14. Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament by S.G. Browne
15. Nightwalker by Heather Graham
16. Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
17. The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny
18. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
19. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
21. The Devlin Diary by Christi Phillips
22. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
24. Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews
25. Without Fail by Lee Child
26. Tripwire by Lee Child
27. Running Blind by Lee Child
28. The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
29. Mortal Prey by John Sanford
30. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
31. Memnoc the Devil by Anne Rice — DNF
32. The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato
33. Murder in the Rue de Paradis by Cara Black
34. Killing Floor by Lee Child
35. Die Trying by Lee Child
36. Storm Cycle by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen
37. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
38. Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
39. Echo Burning by Lee Child
40. The Camel Club by David Baldacci
41. Persuader by Lee Child
42. The Mage’s Daughter by Lynn Kurland
43. Dracula by Bram Stoker
44. Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange
45. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
46. The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
47. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
48. Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
49. Drood by Dan Simmons (Did Not Finish)
50. Century: Book 1 The Ring of Fire by P.D. Baccalario
51. The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
52. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
53. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
54. Dracula The Undead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt
55. Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwell
56. Excalibur by Bernard Cornwell
57. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
58. The King’s Favorite by Susan Holloway Scott
59. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
60. Haunting Bombay by Shilpa Agarwal
61. The Killing Way by Tony Hays
62. The Fleet Street Murders by Charles Finch
63. The Devil’s Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici by Jeanne Kalogridis
64. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
65. Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran
66. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
67. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
68. Covenant with the Vampire by Jeanne Kalogridis
69. A Highlander’s Temptation by Sue-Ellen Welfonder
70. Kristin Lavransdatter: I The Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Undset
71. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett — DNF
72. Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
73. Fallen by Lauren Kate
74. The Archer’s Tale by Bernard Cornwell
75. The Devil’s Alphabet by Daryl Gregory
76. Star Trek: The Great Adventures, Book 1 by James Blish
77. Vagabond by Bernard Cornwell
78. Heretic by Bernard Cornwell
79. The Taker and the Keeper by Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin
80. Powers by John B. Olson (Did Not Finish)
81. Into the Path of Gods by Kathleen Cunningham Guler
82. The House on Tradd Street by Karen White
