Books I Read in 2012

 So this year I must have decided I had something to prove to myself, and possibly to everyone else around me who made comments on how many books I buy. To justify myself, I decided to try to read an average of one book a week — 52 in total for the year. I made it, but it was tough. Over half of them were read in the last three months when I unexpectedly found a lot of free time on my hands. Some of them had been started in previous years, so it was also a shelf-clearing exercise. I won’t be doing it again this next year, but I do have another book-related resolution that you can read about tomorrow.

Skulduggery Pleasant, Derek Landy

How to Read Books for Pleasure in an Age of Distraction, Alan Jacobs

The Man Who Was Thursday, G K Chesterton

Grendel, John Gardner

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

The Vesuvius Club, Mark Gatiss

The Saragossa Manuscript, Jan Potocki

The Ministry of Fear, Graham Greene

Doctor Who: The Gallifrey Chronicles, Lance Parkin

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

World War Z, Mark Brooks

Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins

The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitt

Loitering With Intent, Muriel Spark

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

The Confidential Agent, Graham Greene

Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene

The D. A. Breaks a Seal, Erle Stanley Gardner

Scoop, Evelyn Waugh

Isolarion, James Attlee

Bring Up the Bodies, Hillary Mantel

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer, Seth Grahame-Smith

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby

Under the Garden, Graham Greene

Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins

The Spirit Well, Stephen Lawhead

The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

Love Over Scotland, Alexander McCall Smith

The Magic Christian, Terry Southern

The Defendant, G K Chesterton

War Horse, Michael Morpurgo

Science and Literature, Aldous Huxley

The Big City (or The New Mayhew), Alan Atkinson, Ronald Searle

Different Seasons, Stephen King

Love in the Ruins, The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World, Walker Percy

Three Men and a Maid, P G Wodehouse

Star Wars: Tempest, Troy Denning

The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius

The Giant, O’Brien, Hillary Mantel

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

The Etymologicon, Mark Forsyth

Kirby: King of Comics, Mark Evanier

Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Sean Howe

The Hammer and the Cross, Robert Ferguson

Doctor Who: Shada, Douglas Adams & Gareth Roberts

The House on Haunted Hill, Shirley Jackson

Bambi vs Godzilla, David Mamet

75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking, Paul Levitz

Star Wars: Exile, Aaron Allston

The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick

A Storm of Swords: 1 Steel and Ice, George R R Martin

Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith