As the happy owner of a shiny new Kindle, a Christmas present from Chris, I’ve fallen in love with reading all over again. I love how crisp the electronic ink is and the progress bar at the bottom of the page letting me know how far, by percentage, I am into the book. And between free books from Amazon – odds are good I’ll be signing up for Amazon Prime – and Project Gutenberg, I’ve piled up a lovely stack of digital books to read.
With the new year and my new toy, it’s time to resurrect my tradition of keeping a list of books I’ve finished on my blog. Previous year’s lists, sadly, are gone with my old blog, but I often found them useful.
I’ll include the date I finish reading, along with title and author. When I review a book, I’ll link to the review post.
Happy Reading!
January 1: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
January 6: Anthem by Ayn Rand
January 13: I Want it Now! A Memoir of Life on the Set of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory by Julie Dawn Cole and Michael Esslinger
January 27: Uptown Local and Other Interventions by Diane Duane
February 1: Sugarland by Joni Rodgers
February 16: All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me by Jeff Dunham
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
Date unrecorded: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
Date unrecorded: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
Date unrecorded: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Date unrecorded: Doc Maynard: The man who invented Seattle by William C. Speidel
Date unrecorded: Sons Of The Profits Or, There’s No Business Like Grow Business! The Seattle Story, 1851-1901 by William C. Speidel
Date unrecorded: Some Haystacks Don’t Even Have Any Needle, and Other Complete Modern Poems. by Stephen, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith, compiled by Dunning
Date unrecorded: Sweet Potato Pie and Other Surrealities by Lawrence M. Schoen
Date unrecorded: Buffalogistics (Tales of the Amazing Conroy #3) by Lawrence M. Schoen
Date unrecorded: Crazy on You (Kindle Single) by Rachel Gibson
Date unrecorded: How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story (Kindle Single) by John Scalzi
Date unrecorded: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Date unrecorded: Drinking with Dead Women Writers (Drinking with Dead Writers) by Elaine Ambrose and AK Turne
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
Not Taco Bell Material by Adam Carolla
In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks by Adam Carolla
Kahless (Star Trek: The Next Generation) by Michael Jan Friedman
Redshirts by John Scalzi
June 16: Matched by Ally Condie
August 1: No Plot? No Problem by Chris Baty
August 3: On Bear Mountian by Deborah Smith
August 12: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
August 16: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
August 18: We Are All Weird by Seth Godin
August 18: Star Trek 100 Page Spectacular 2012 (Comic)
August 18: Star Trek TNG/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 #1, #2, #3 (comic)
August 22: Star Trek Ongoing #9, #10, #11 (comic, IDW Publishing)
August 26: Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
Date unrecorded: A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
September 8: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
September 17: Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
September 27: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
October 2: The Man in the Empty Boat by Mark Salzman
October 15: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
November 1: The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
November 1: Beyond the Hole in the Wall: Discover the Power of Self-Organized Learning (Kindle Single) by Sugata Mitra
Date unrecorded: Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Date unrecorded: Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick
Date unrecorded: Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness by Jessica Valenti
Date unrecorded: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Date unrecorded: This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Novemeber 26: A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Date unrecorded: Morning is a Long Time Coming by Bette Greene
Date unrecorded: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
December 22: Regarding Ducks and Universes by Neve Maslakovic
Happy Reading!