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Jan-4-2012

Booklist, 2012 Edition

Posted by gigigriffis under books

Stricken items have been read or removed.

Memoir & Travel:

  1. Stone Voices: the Search for Scotland
  2. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
  3. Black Lamb and Gray Falcon
  4. Blankets (Thompson)
  5. Lighting Up (Shapiro)
  6. Loose Girl
  7. Smashed
  8. Slave Hunter
  9. Cleopatra: A Life
  10. The Glass Castle
  11. Hippie Boy
  12. Ruined by Reading
  13. A Bed of Red Flowers
  14. Beyond the Broken Gate
  15. Black Virgin Mountain
  16. The Bond Between Women: A Journey to Fierce Compassion
  17. Breaking the Limit: One Woman’s Motorcycle Journey Through North America
  18. Cycling the Sacred Mountain
  19. Traveling Mercies (Lamont)
  20. The Tender Bar
  21. Speaking with Strangers
  22. The Color of Water
  23. Drinking: A Love Story
  24. Autobiography of a Face
  25. The Liars Club
  26. Cherry
  27. A Girl Named Zippy
  28. Dry
  29. Lois on the Loose
  30. Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
  31. Necessary Sins: A Memoir
  32. Somebody’s Heart is Burning
  33. Steep Passages: A World Wide Eco Adventure Unlocks Nature’s Spiritual Truths
  34. How to Be Lovely
  35. Every Secret Thing
  36. The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade
  37. Let’s Pretend this Never Happened
  38. Fairy Tale Interrupted
  39. The New Jim Crow
  40. The Journal of Best Practices

Content & Business:

  1. Killer Web Content
  2. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

Fantasy, Science Fiction & the Like:

  1. Soulless
  2. Job: A Comedy of Justice (Heinlein)
  3. King Solomon’s Mines
  4. Island
  5. Lancelot (Percy)
  6. Stranger in a Strange Land
  7. Invention of a Morel
  8. Monster: Blood Tatoo
  9. The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
  10. Valis
  11. Patrick (Lawhead)
  12. Otherland
  13. The Telling (Le Guin)
  14. The Lost Hero
  15. Spell of the Highlander
  16. The Queen’s Own
  17. Daughter of the Forest
  18. Poison Study
  19. Neuromancer
  20. The Unexpected Dragon
  21. Rhapsody
  22. Game of Thrones
  23. Anansi Boys

Crime & Mystery:

  1. City of Lost Girls
  2. If I am Missing or Dead
  3. The Devil in the White City
  4. The Pig Did It
  5. Along Came a Spider
  6. 1st to Die
  7. The ABC Murders
  8. The Secret Lovers
  9. And Only to Deceive
  10. Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
  11. The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern
  12. The Cat Who Turned On and Off
  13. Shadow Baby
  14. The Big Sleep
  15. The Anniversary Man
  16. Gone
  17. Started Early, Took My Dog

Other Novels:

  1. Nothing (Henry Green)
  2. Forgotten Garden
  3. Never Let Me Go
  4. Kite Runner
  5. Dance to the Music of Time
  6. Bel Canto
  7. The Help
  8. I am Half-Sick of Shadows
  9. Death Comes to Pemberly
  10. The Snow Child

Geekery:

  1. A Brief History of Time
  2. Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
  3. The Ethics of Aristotle
  4. The Psychology of Happiness
  5. Crime Signals (Givens)
  6. The Paradox of Choice
  7. Thinking, Fast and Slow
  8. The American Way of Death
  9. SPEECH-LESS: Tales of a White House Survivor
  10. The Ways and Power of Love
  11. The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community
  12. Murder Most Rare
  13. Briefs of Leading Cases in Law Enforcement
  14. The Righteous Mind

Re-Reads:

  1. The Importance of Being Earnest
  2. Exodus
  3. To Kill a Mockingbird
  4. The Blind Assassin
  5. The Lovely Bones
  6. How to Remodel a Man
  7. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
  8. The Last Unicorn
  9. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
  10. Picture of Dorian Grey
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  1. DK Said,

    The Denver library has a really good mp3 audio play version of The Importance of Being Earnest. I love James Marsters’ voice.

    Now that I know your reading tastes a little better, I retract my Neuromancer recommendation.

  2. Gigi Said,

    Mmm, noted.

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