The Books I Read in 2012

I will begin with my top 10 favorite books that I read this year:

1. Ragtime--E. L. Doctorow
2. Train Dreams--Denis Johnson
3. The Hunger Games--Suzanne Collins
4. Robert Altman: Interviews--David Sterritt
5. Wonderstruck--Brian Selznick
6. Never Fall Down--Patricia McCormick
7. The Lonely Polygamist--Brady Udall
8. The Nashville Chronicles--Jan Stuart
9. Changing My Mind--Zadie Smith
10. A Patriot's History of the United States--Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen

Here are the 99 books I read this year:

1. Burn Unit--Barbara Ravage
2. A Patriot's History of the United States--Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen
3. Far from Home--Mary Chung Hayashi
4. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging--Louise Rennison
5. Changing My Mind--Zadie Smith
6. My Seinfeld Year--Fred Stoller
7. Dead End in Norvelt--Jack Gantos
8. Lost Detroit--Dan Austin
9. Where Things Come Back--John Corey Whaley
10. Jasper Jones--Craig Silvey
11. Bless This Mouse--Lois Lowry
12. Breaking Stalin's Nose--Eugene Yelchin
13. The Christmas Barn--C.L. Davis
14. Steve Jobs--Walter Isaacson
15. Holes--Louis Sachar
16. American Born Chinese--Gene Luen Yang
17. Death at an Early Age--Jonathan Kozol
18. When Your Kids Push Your Buttons--Bonnie Harris
19. The Hunger Games--Suzanne Collins
20. How to Be Alone--Jonathan Franzen
21. Inside Out & Back Again--Thanhha Lai
22. Coming Apart--Charles Murray
23. Barrel Fever and Other Stories--David Sedaris
24. Why We Broke Up--Daniel Handler
25. The Scorpio Races--Maggie Stiefvater
26. Naked--David Sedaris
27. Red Army--Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott
28. Holidays on Ice--David Sedaris
29. Swamplandia!--Karen Russell
30. The Graveyard Book--Neil Gaiman
31. Spies of Mississippi--Rick Bowers
32. Black Hands, White Sails--Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
33. Catherine, Called Birdy--Karen Cushman
34. Farther Away--Jonathan Franzen
35. Quiet--Susan Cain
36. The Midwife's Apprentice--Karen Cushman
37. Out of My Mind--Sharon M. Draper
38. Red Scarf Girl--Ji-li Jiang
39. Life on Mars--Tracy K. Smith
40. Robert Altman: Interviews--David Sterritt
41. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories--Ernest Hemingway
42. Train Dreams--Denis Johnson
43. Remainder--Tom McCarthy
44. Netherland--Joseph O'Neill
45. Sacred Marriage--Gary Thomas
46. The Winter Room--Gary Paulsen
47. Obama Zombies--Jason Mattera
48. Moon over Manifest--Clare Vanderpool
49. The Lonely Polygamist--Brady Udall
50. Christopher Durang Explains It All for You--Christopher Durang
51. The Bridge of San Luis Rey--Thornton Wilder
52. Missing May--Cynthia Rylant
53. Secret of the Andes--Ann Nolan Clark
54. The Moviegoer--Walker Percy
55. The Amateur--Edward Klein
56. Ragtime--E. L. Doctorow
57. Twilight--Stephenie Meyer
58. The White Darkness--Geraldine McCaughrean
59. The Tyranny of Cliches--Jonah Goldberg
60. The Lincoln Lawyer--Michael Connelly
61. Gomorrah--Roberto Saviano
62. The Higher Power of Lucky--Susan Patron
63. Young Lonigan--James T. Farrell
64. Same Kind of Different as Me--Ron Hall and Denver Moore
65. The Death of Nora Ryan--James T. Farrell
66. Quiet Strength--Tony Dungy
67. Going Bovine--Libba Bray
68. Sam Holman--James T. Farrell
69. Unprotected--Miriam Grossman
70. Luckiest Man--Jonathan Eig
71. Neighbors--Thomas Berger
72. This Is How You Lose Her--Junot Diaz
73. The Lone Pilgrim--Laurie Colwin
74. Mugged--Ann Coulter
75. Kingdom Come--Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins
76. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children--Ransom Riggs
77. Wonderstruck--Brian Selznick
78. Children of a Lesser God--Mark Medoff
79. Nothing--Janne Teller
80. Prelude to the Century (Our American Century)
81. Cleopatra--Stacy Schiff
82. World's Fair--E.L. Doctorow
83. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk--Ben Fountain
84. Paradise--Donald Barthelme
85. Endangered--Eliot Schrefer
86. Bomb--Steve Sheinkin
87. Whites--Norman Rush
88. Out of Reach--Carrie Arcos
89. Goblin Secrets--William Alexander
90. The Yellow Birds--Kevin Powers
91. Never Fall Down--Patricia McCormick
92. The Nashville Chronicles--Jan Stuart
93. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village--Laura Amy Schlitz
94. Back to Blood--Tom Wolfe
95. Man Made--Joel Stein
96. Fool Me Twice--Aaron Klein & Brenda J. Elliott
97. The Plague of Doves--Louise Erdrich
98. The Round House--Louise Erdrich
99. Can America Survive?--John Hagee