With the help of a Kindle and a little more discipline reading on the metro, I think I was able to have a better 2012 than 2011 in terms of volume of reading.
Here is what I read in 2012:
- Gai-Jin by James Clavell (still reading)
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristoby Tom Reiss
- Heaven on Earth (A Journey through Shari’a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World) by Sadakat Kadri
- How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vannegut
- Timbuctoo by Tahir Shah
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw (hardcopy)
- Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
- Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
- State of Wonder by Ann Pachett
- A Life Full of Holes by Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi (as recorded and translated by Paul Bowles)
- Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
- The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- The Coldest Winter Ever by Souljah Sister
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
- The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Highlights include How You Lose Her, State of Wonder and A Life Full of Holes. Were it not for the dense Heaven On Earth and the long Gai-Jin, I probably could have gotten to a lot more books on my reading list.
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