Read in 2012

 (Books linked to reviews once read. 100+ includes all books, including reread and not reviewed. # for review pending, * for quick review as opposed to full, bold for books I plan on reading 'next', - for books I want to read this year. Reread books not reviewed.)

2012 Reading Challenge

2012 Reading Challenge
Reno has read 34 books toward her goal of 100 books.
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2012 Recap

Tolkien Challenge (a personal 'timelimitless' challenge, listed in the order I plan to read them, ** indicates where I hope to read up to in 2012):
  • The Annotated Hobbit by Douglas A. Andersen
  • The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • * The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • * The History of the Hobbit by John D. Rateliff
  • * The Art of the Hobbit by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
  • * J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter 
  • J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
  • ** The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter (halfway through! - 31 Dec 2012)
  • War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet B. Croft
  • Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth
  • The Lord of the Rings: Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
  • The History of Lord of The Rings (The History of Middle-Earth Volumes Six to Nine) by Christopher Tolkien
    • The Return of the Shadow
    • The Treason of Isengard
    • The War of the Ring
    • Sauron Defeated
  • The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The History of Middle Earth Volumes 1-5, 10 and 11 by Christopher Tolkien
  • J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography by Wayne G. Hammond (if I can find it! Thankfully my uni library has it. I might just wait for the much anticipated second edition ;P)
2012 TBR Pile Challenge:
TBR Double Dare:
2012 TBR (books on my TBR before the year started):
  • Access All Areas by Ninjalicious
  • All Quite on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  • The Dodecahedron by Paul Glennon
  • * Fifth Avenue 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson
  • The Great Reset by Richard Florida
  • Genuine Happiness by Allan B. Wallace 
  •  The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheimer
  • The Yosemite by John Muir
  • London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
  • Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
  • Mavericks by Peter Charles Newman
  • The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Nonzero by Robert Wright
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
  • Russia and the Soviet Union by John Thompson
  • Secrets by Daniel Allsberg
  • * Siddharta by Hermann Hesse
  • * South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami 
  • * The Story of Stuff by Annie Lennox
  • Torture Team by Philippe Sands 
  • When Media Goes to War by Anthony Dimaggio
  • The Worm Ouroboros by Eric Rucker Eddison
Foodies Read 2:
  • The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
Upcoming TBR List (books added after January 1 2011):
  1. Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield
  2. *Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
  3. The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner
  4. The Annotated Peter Pan by Maria Tatar
  5. The Art of Lord of the Rings by Gary Russell
  6. Blood and Flowers by Penny Blubaugh
  7. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
  8. The Centre of the World by Andreas Steinhofel
  9. Closing Time by Joseph Heller
  10. The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
  11. The Double by Jose Saramago
  12. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
  13. Essays by George Orwell (not sure what collection yet)
  14. * Ernest Hemingway on Writing by Larry W. Phillips
  15. Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood by Maria Tatar
  16. Justice by Rhiannon Paille
  17. A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas Basbanes
  18. The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente
  19. The Good Father by Noah Hawley
  20. * Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
  21. Ifferisms by Mardy Grothe
  22. In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M. Valente
  23. * In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
  24. The Indignation of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Tanigawa
  25. The Intrigues of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Tanigawa
  26. The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer
  27. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
  28. Memories of Empire by Django Wexler
  29. Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin
  30. My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
  31. * The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
  32. * The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
  33. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Delimma by Trenton Lee Stewart
  34. Neverisms by Mardy Grothe
  35. New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 by Theresa Carpenter
  36. Orwell and Politics: Animal Farm in the Context of Essays, Reviews and Letters Selected from the Complete Works of George Orwell by Peter Davison
  37. * Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  38. Paris Times Eight by Deidre Kelly
  39. Pen, Paper & Printing Ink by Andrew King
  40. The Peter Pan Chronicles: The Nearly 100 Year History of the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by Bruce K. Hanson
  41. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  42. Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
  43. The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
  44. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary by Jack Lynch
  45. The Scar by China Mieville
  46. Sherlock Holmes Vol. 3, The New Annotated by Leslie Klinger
  47. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
  48. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
  49. * The Stranger by Albert Camus
  50. Success Secrets of Sherlock Holmes by David Acord
  51. Unwholly by Neal Shusterman
  52. Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
  53. * The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Tanigawa
  54. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
  55. * Wild by Cheryl Strayed
  56. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
  57. The World's Protected Areas by Stuart Chape
  58. Who Could That Be at This Hour? by Lemony Snicket 
  59. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Not Reviewed (because I read the book solely for school or relaxation, not critical thinking...or I had no cohesive thoughts on the book ;P):
  • The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
  • Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
  • The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Flame of Surrender by Rhiannon Paille
  • The Cupboard of Full Life by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Reread:
  • The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
  • The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
  • The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
  • The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket 
  • The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket
  • The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket
  • White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
  • Stardust by Neil Gaiman
  • The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket
  • Unwind by Neal Shusterman
  • The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket
  • The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket
  • The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket
  • Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
  • The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket
  • The End by Lemony Snicket
Dropped:
  •  Existentialism for Dummies by Christopher Panza and Gregory Dale (~150 pages, January 1 to 3, read enough to get an idea of the philosophy and realize while I agree with certain points, actually adopting a philosophy to call my own isn't for me so I eventually stopped digging in deeper and just read chapters that interested me, such as existential films and literature and the politics chapter) 
  • The Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner (172 pages, I really wanted to like this book which is why I stuck with it so long, but truthfully I was totally disinterested by about 10 pages in. Interesting premise, poor execution.)
  • Sorcery and Cecelia by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer (7 pages, I cannot possibly understand what possessed me to put this book on my TBR. Sure, the premise probably attracted me but I am not at all a fan of books written in correspondence form, especially books written from the perspective of 'young ladies' in the 1800s.)

Books I MayMightWill Read Someday:
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 
  • A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Castle by Franz Kafka
  • Candide by Voltaire
  • Characters and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela
  • Diaries of Anais Nin
  • The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker 
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Foundation series by Isaac Asimov 
  • Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
  • Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
  • Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Howl by Allen Ginsberg
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
  • Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  • The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
  • The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
  • Scene and Structure by Jack Bickham
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  • Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
  • The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
  • They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children by Romeo Dallaire
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
  • Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

3 comments:

  1. Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby, and Walden are favorites of mine - I hope you enjoy them!

    I wasn't a fan of The Once and Future King (odd, since I'm a huge fan of Arthurian legend!).

    Also, I really need to read Infinite Jest someday... I've never read any DWF. Seeing should be on my TBR list too, since I loved Blindness.

    Glad you're joining us - good luck!

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  2. Wow - you have some great reading plans for 2012. So glad you added the Foodies Read 2 to your challenge list. I look forward to seeing what great food books you decide to read. Good luck with all your challenges.

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  3. I don't think you've got enough books to read... ;)

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Thanks for commenting, I appreciate you taking some time to do so :)

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