Saturday, December 29, 2012

2012: The year in books


Stolen Innocence
Why Have Kids?
Beautiful Ruins
Gone Girl: A Novel
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
The Book of Mormon Girl
The Abstinence Teacher
1861: The Civil War Awakening
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Becoming Sister Wives
Devil’s Gate
Below Stairs
The Role (unpublished manuscript)
Caleb’s Crossing
The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada’s Polygamous Mormon Sect
State of Wonder
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
Twilight of the Elites
The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted …
The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History
A LOT of gluten/celiac-related books that I won’t list here – let me know if you need recommendations.

Re-read:
Outlander series
Harry Potter series (minus Deathly Hallows)

So what does this list say about me?
·      Six books about Mormons and/or FLDS? Apparently my appetite for books about Mormonism and polygamy has not yet been met. It’s a great time to be interested in books about Mormons.
·      I like re-reading books, particularly series. I also re-watch movies and TV shows.
·      There is a small list, but longer than usual, of books I didn’t finish this year. Instead of trudging through just to finish, when half of the people in your book club won’t have finished it either, why suffer through the ones you hate? There won’t be a test! Being able to easily access eBooks from NYPL has added to this -- I feel much less pressure to finish books I didn't pay for.   

Books I’m currently reading, but won’t finish before 2013:
Peter the Great
Less Than Zero
The Murder of the Century