I tried to read at least one book each week last year. (A. Book. A. Week.). Here’s what I managed to read. Click titles to see my remarks.
January
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
February
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales by Ying Chang Compestine
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
March
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Paulie Pastrami Achieves World Peace by James Proimos
My Heart is Like a Zoo by Michael Hall
Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Types by Sharon Werner
April
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon
The Busy Family’s Guide to Money by Sandra Black
The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod
I Am An Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World by Eve Ensler
May
America’s Cheapest Family by Annette and Steve Economides
Jane Slayre by Charlotte Bronte and Sherri Browning Erwin
Grave Sight (Harper Connelly Book 1) by Charlaine Harris
Grave Surprise (Harper Connelly Book 2) by Charlaine Harris
An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly Book 3) by Charlaine Harris
Storm Front (Dresden Files Book 1) by Jim Butcher
Fool Moon (Dresden Files Book 2) by Jim Butcher
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
June
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Grave Peril (Dresden Files Book 3) by Jim Butcher
His Majesty’s Dragon (Temeraire Book 1) by Naomi Novik
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
July
Summer Knight (Dresden Files Book 4) by Jim Butcher
Blockade Billy by Stephen King
Death Masks (Dresden Files Book 5) by Jim Butcher
Grave Secrets (Harper Connelly Book 4) by Charlaine Harris
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
The Four Arguments by Don Miguel Ruiz
Throw Out Fifty Things by Gail Blanke
August
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead edited by Jeffrey Eugenides
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
September
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Blood Rites (Dresden Files Book 6) by Jim Butcher
October
How I Write by Janet Evanovich
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
November
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
December
Tinsel: A Search for America’s Christmas Present by Hank Stuever
When Santa Fell to Earth by Cornelia Funke