These are the 62 books I read this year (3 less than last year):
1. Les Misérables—Victor Hugo
2. Exposing the Real Che Guevara—Humberto Fontova
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God—Zora Neale Hurston
4. The Girl Who Played with Fire—Stieg Larsson
5. Inquisition—Toby Green
6. War and Peace—Leo Tolstoy
7. Guilty—Ann Coulter
8. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest—Stieg Larsson
9. How to Reach and Teach All Students—Simplified—Elizabeth Breaux
10. Mint Condition—Dave Jamieson
11. Righteous Indignation—Andrew Breitbart
12. The Complete Maus—Art Spiegelman
13. The Pale King—David Foster Wallace
14. Into Thin Air—Jon Krakauer
15. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People—Stephen R. Covey
16. Heaven Is for Real—Todd Burpo
17. I’d Go with the Helmet, Ray: A Doonesbury Book—G. B. Trudeau
18. American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar—Harvey Pekar
19. Persepolis—Marjane Satrapi
20. Demonic—Ann Coulter
21. The Recognitions—William Gaddis
22. Parrot and Olivier in America—Peter Carey
23. Persepolis 2—Marjane Satrapi
24. Falling Man—Don DeLillo
25. A Reliable Wife—Robert Goolrick
26. Wisconsin Death Trip—Michael Lesy
27. Primetime Propaganda—Ben Shapiro
28. Frindle—Andrew Clements
29. Don’t Cry—Mary Gaitskill
30. A Visit from the Goon Squad—Jennifer Egan
31. The Uncoupling—Meg Wolitzer
32. The Stoning of Sally Kern—Sally Kern
33. The Discomfort Zone—Jonathan Franzen
34. Riding toward Everywhere—William T. Vollmann
35. In My Time—Dick Cheney
36. Prince Caspian—C. S. Lewis
37. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader—C. S. Lewis
38. Troublemaker—Christine O’Donnell
39. Arguing with Idiots—Glenn Beck
40. The Invention of Hugo Cabret—Brian Selznick
41. Complete Plays 1913-1920—Eugene O’Neill
42. Salvage the Bones—Jesmyn Ward
43. Binocular Vision—Edith Pearlman
44. Flush—Carl Hiaasen
45. The Sojourn—Andrew Krivak
46. The No Spin Zone—Bill O’Reilly
47. The Buddha in the Attic—Julie Otsuka
48. Teacher Man—Frank McCourt
49. Bone Palace Ballet—Charles Bukowski
50. When You Reach Me—Rebecca Stead
51. The Help—Kathryn Stockett
52. The Angel Esmeralda—Don DeLillo
53. Americana—Don DeLillo
54. Savvy—Ingrid Law
55. The Tiger’s Wife—Téa Obreht
56. End Zone—Don DeLillo
57. Scumble—Ingrid Law
58. Mockingbird—Kathryn Erskine
59. Great Jones Street—Don DeLillo
60. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets—Stephen Crane
61. Ratner’s Star—Don DeLillo
62. Quartet—Jean Rhys
My top 10 books that I read this year:
1. The Help—Kathryn Stockett
2. Demonic—Ann Coulter
3. The Discomfort Zone—Jonathan Franzen
4. American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar—Harvey Pekar
5. A Visit from the Goon Squad—Jennifer Egan
6. The Angel Esmeralda—Don DeLillo
7. Heaven Is for Real—Todd Burpo
8. The Complete Maus—Art Speigelman
9. Righteous Indignation—Andrew Breitbart
10. Falling Man—Don DeLillo
For 2012, I plan to read mostly non fiction books. I have class coming up where I will have to read some Young Adult literature, but other than that it will be all non fiction. My plan for the next three years is to spend each year reading only a certain genre of literature. In 2012, it will be non fiction; in 2013, it will be poetry and drama; and in 2014, it will be novels and short stories. I plan to start of the year reading Barbara Ravage’s Burn Unit.
