Book List of 2012

an unflattering pic of the book-binged shelf. I am not an expert photographer. Heck, I'm not even an amateur.

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   I can't believe it took me this long to compile a list of the books I've read during the previous year. The main goal was just 30 but you know how it is with books, one thing always leads to another. While some of the books were bought from bookshops I happen to come across while travelling, there were those which some people lent me. There were also titles ordered from  www.bookdepository.com, an online bookshop that delivers books free of charge, heaven-sent for my fellow book lovers out there but can be quite disappointing and frustrating especially for those who can't wait for 30+ days in order for the books to arrive (IF it arrives at all). I am quite pleased with this year's acquisitions (umm 2012). Though there were some which I never bothered to finish (not because they were awful but because the collection kept piling up and because, truth be told, I suffer ADHD. That upon other reasons he he), the ones in bold letters are the ones I enjoyed most and strongly  recommend. I am now in the process of compiling the list for 2013 :-)  

   
   

   
   

   Books of 2012

   
   

   1.       Anagrams – Lorrie Moore 

   2.       Who Will Run The Frog Hospital– Lorrie Moore

   3.       Like Life – Lorrie Moore

   4.       Heartbreak and Magic – Ian Rosales Casocot

   5.       Beautiful Accidents – Ian Rosales Casocot

   6.       The Girl’s Guide To Hunting and Fishing – Melissa Banks

   7.       Alibis – Andre Aciman

   8.       The Way by Swann’s – Marcel Proust (unfinished)

   9.       You Deserve Nothing – Alexander Maksik

   10.   Uncollected Poems – Rainer Maria Rilke

   11.   Waking the Dead – Yvette Tan ( not owned)

   12.    The Great Gatsby – Francis Scott Fitzgerald

   13.   This Side of Paradise – Francis Scott Fitzgerald (unfinished)

   14.   Palo Alto – James Franco

   15.   White Teeth – Zadie Smith

   16.   Boy Meets Boy – David Levithan

   17.   A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway

   18.   The Fault In Our Stars – John Green

   19.   The Museum of Innocence – Orhan Pamuk

   20.    Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman

   21.   I Feel Bad About My Neck --Nora Ephron (unfinished)

   22.   Eleven – Mark Watson, July 6

   23.   The Uncommon Reader , Allan Bennet–

   24.   An Abundance of Katherines, John Green –  

   25.   Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares, David Levithan and –  

   26.   Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

   27.   The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell –   

   28.   Looking for Alaska, John Green –  

   29.   Paper Towns, John Green (unfinished)

   30.   NP, Banana Yoshimoto

   31.   The Line of Beauty, Alan Holinghurst (unfinished)

   32.   Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami,  

   33.   Number9Dream, David Mitchell

   34.   Where Things Come Back, John Corey Whaley

   35.   Ex Libris, Ann Fadiman

   36.   Why We Broke Up, Daniel Handler

   37.   American Gods, Neil Gaiman

   38.   Death in Venice, Thoman Mann 

   39.   A Tiny Bit Marvelous, Dawn French

   40.   Before Ever After, Samantha Soto

   41.   Almost French, Sarah Turnbull