Books Read 2012
December
*Can Animals Be Moral?* Mark Rowlands
*Bowl of Heaven* Gregory Benford & Larry Niven
*Hey, Mister* Pete Sickman-Garner (graphic novel)
*Batman: Arkham Asylum* Grant Morrison (graphic novel)
*The Unwritten* (Vol. 6) Mike Carey (graphic novel)
*We3* Grant Morrison (graphic novel)
*Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity* Katherine Boo
*Batman: The Court of Owls* Scott Snyder (graphic novel)
*2312* Kim Stanley Robinson
*Some Kind of Fairy Tale* Graham Joyce
November
*The Drowned Cities* Paolo Bacigalupi
*Ship Breaker* Paolo Bacigalupi
*Habibi* Craig Thompson (graphic novel)
*Open City* Teju Cole
*Anya’s Ghost* Vera Brosgol (graphic novel)
*It’s Fine By Me* Per Petterson
*Alif the Unseen* G. Willow Wilson
*The Forgiven* Lawrence Osborne
*Say Nice Things About Detroit* Scott Lasser
*Ill Fares the Land* Tony Judt (2nd read)
*The Moviegoer* Walker Percy
*The Gunslinger* Stephen King
*Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore* Robin Sloan
October
*The Middlesteins* Jami Attenberg
*The Yellow Birds* Kevin Powers
*The Painted Veil* W. Somerset Maugham
*The Buddha in the Attic* Julie Otsuka
*Every Love Story is a Ghost Story* D.T. Max
*Girlfriend in a Coma* Douglas Coupland (2nd read)
*Ender’s Game* Orson Scott Card (3rd read)
September
*The Left Hand of Darkness* Ursula K. Le Guin
*Train Dreams* Denis Johnson
*Vortex* Robert Charles Wilson
*Axis* Robert Charles Wilson
*Spin* Robert Charles Wilson
*Inside* Alix Ohlin
*Freakangels* (vol. 6) Warren Ellis (graphic novel)
*Freakangels* (vol. 5) Warren Ellis (graphic novel)
*Freakangels* (vol. 4) Warren Ellis (graphic novel)
*Freakangels* (vol. 3) Warren Ellis (graphic novel)
*Freakangels* (vol. 2) Warren Ellis (graphic novel)
*Freakangels* (vol. 1) Warren Ellis (graphic novel)
August
*Coming Through Slaughter* Michael Ondaatje
*The God Engines* John Scalzi
*Dusk and Other Stories* James Salter
*Divisidero* Michael Ondaatje (2nd read)
*Citrus County* John Brandon
*What Happened to Sophie Wilder* Christopher R. Beha (2nd read)
*Motherless Brooklyn* Jonathan Lethem
*Anil’s Ghost* Michael Ondaatje (2nd read)
July
*Invisible* Paul Auster (2nd read)
*The Whole Five Feet* Christopher R. Beha
*The Prisoner of Heaven* Carlos Ruiz Zafon
*Pure* Andrew Miller
*The Words* Jean-Paul Satre
*What Happened to Sophie Wilder* Christopher R. Beha
*Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail* Cheryl Strayed
*Swamplandia!* Karen Russell (eBook)
June
*A Game of Thrones* George R.R. Martin
*The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film* Michael Ondaatje
*Life-Altering Experiences* Phil Dhingra (eBook)
*Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness* Scott Jurek
*Hobby Farm: Living Your Rural Dreams For Pleasure and Profit* Carol Ekarius (eBook)
*Born to Run* Christopher McDougall (eBook)
*Awkwardness* Adam Kotsko (eBook)
*First Love* Ivan Turgenev (eBook)
May
*In the Skin Of a Lion* Michael Ondaatje
*Jamrach’s Menagerie* Carol Birch
*Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures* Graham Harman (eBook)
*Crash* J.G. Ballard
*Running In the Family* Michael Ondaatje
*Circus Philosophicus* Graham Harman (eBook)
*Who Fears Death* Nnedi Okorafor
*Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows* Melanie Joy
*The Shape of Design* Frank Chimero (eBook)
*Dancing About Architecture: A Little Book of Creativity* Phil Beadle (eBook)
*G.* John Berger
April
*Mother, Stranger* Cris Beam (eBook)
*The Unwritten* (vol. 5) Mike Carey (graphic novel)
*The Unwritten* (vol. 4) Mike Carey (graphic novel)
*The Unwritten* (vol. 3) Mike Carey (graphic novel)
*Conversations with David Foster Wallace* Stephen J. Burn
*The Unwritten* (vol. 2) Mike Carey (graphic novel)
*Clumsy* Jeffrey Brown (2nd read)
*Lost at Sea* Bryan Lee O’Malley (graphic novel)
*The Unwritten* (vol. 1) Mike Carey (2nd read) (graphic novel)
*Gutenberg the Geek* Jeff Jarvis (eBook)
*Unschooling* Astra Taylor (eBook)
*The English Patient* Michael Ondaatje
*Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic* Elizabeth Kaye (eBook)
March
*Follow Me Down* Kio Stark
*The Melting Season* Jami Attenberg
*Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress* Dai Sijie
*The Cat’s Table* Michael Ondaatje
*Anil’s Ghost* Michael Ondaatje
*Divisadero* Michael Ondaatje
*The Road* Cormac McCarthy
February
*Perfume: The Story of a Murderer* Patrick Suskind
*Reading Like a Writer* Francine Prose (2nd read)
*Let the Great World Spin* Colum McCann (2nd read)
*American Subversive* David Goodwillie
*Closed Book* Gilbert Adair
*Mr. Midshipman Hornblower* C.S. Forester
*1Q84* Haruki Murakami
January
*250 Things You Should Know About Writing* Chuck Wendig (eBook)
*Inner Art: Beauty and the Third Eye* Leslie Ihde
*Roughing It* Mark Twain (eBook)
*The Twenty-Seventh City* Jonathan Franzen
*Take This Book* Melissa Gira Grant (eBook)
