Book End Review 2012

Books of 2012

A lot of people don’t understand challenging yourself to read, mostly my students. Of course, these are students who have never been encouraged to read and don’t understand the magic that can happen when you find a book that just gets the gears in your head turning.

Well, I consider myself to be a competitive person so giving myself this challenge each year gives me something to work toward. And, being an English major, I love to read. That being said, my challenge for this year was to read 75 books, 15 less than last year as I anticipated being really busy with school. I’ve learned when I get behind on my reading goal (Goodreads starts yelling at me) that reading a gay fiction on my Fire is a great way to catch up.

Books with a * at the end mean they were read for school/work. If I read 75% or more of these then they counted.

Start: 1/1/12
End: 12/27/12

1. Black Boy - Richard Wright*
2. Make Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America - Nathan McCall*
3. Halo - Alexandra Adornetto
4. The Heart of Darkness - Mark A. Roeder
5. Wolfsbane - Andrea Cremer
6. Temptation University - Mark A. Roeder
7. The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier*
8. The Future of Us - Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler
9. Secretariat - William Nack
10. The Color of Water - James McBride*
11. Maus Volume I - Art Spiegelman*
12. Maus Volume II - Art Spiegelman*
13. The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater
14. Promises - Marie Sexton
15. Resistance - by L.M. Turner
16. Tyler's Cowboy - Amber Kell
17. Soul Bonds - Lynn Lorenz
18. Altered - by Laura Burks
19. Unshakeable Faith - Lisa Worall
20. Song in the Dark - P.N. Elrod
21. Essentials of Young Adult Literature - Carl M. Tomlinson*
22. Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception - Maggie Stiefvater
23. The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A - Kevin J.H. Dettmar*
24. The Reading/Writing Connection: Strategies for Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Classroom - Carol Olson*
25. Joust - Mercedes Lackey
26. Integrating Computer Technology Into the Classroom: Skills for the 21st Century - Gary Morrison*
27. The Scent of Jasmine - Jude Deveraux
28. Heartwishes - Jude Deveraux
29. Chalice - Amber Kell
30. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
31. Getting Gabe - Amber Kell
32. Hunting Henry - Amber Kell
33. Juliet - Annie Foster
34. Unholy Night - Seth Grahame-Smith
35. Highland Avenger - Hannah Howell
36. City of Lost Souls - Cassandra Clare
37. The Wedding Letters - Jason F. Wright
38. The Lost Crown - Sarah Miller
39. Orlin's Fall - Amber Kell
40. Heart of Texas - R.J. Scott
41. Dark Road Rising - P.N. Elrod
42. The Freedom Writers Diary - Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers
43. Alta - Mercedes Lackey
44. Moonlight in the Morning - Jude Deveraux
45. Bunheads - Sophie Flack
46. The Complete Stories - Zora Neale Hurston*
47. Haunt Me Still - Jennifer Lee Carroll
48. Texas Winter - R.J. Scott
49. Touch Me Gently - J.R. Loveless
50. Sanctuary - Mercedes Lackey
51. Long Way Home - Carolyn Gray
52. Stranger in the Moonlight - Jude Deveraux
53. Nothing But Ghosts - Beth Kephart
54. The Autobiography of Malcolm X - As told to Alec Haley*
55. Iron Legends - Julie Kagawa
56. Green River, Running Red - Anne Rule
57. 50 Essays - Samuel Cohen*
58. I Hunt Killers - Barry Lyga
59. The Scent of Rain and Lightning - Nancy Pickard
60. The Inquisitor’s Key - Jefferson Bass
61. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot*
62. One Breath Away - Heather Gudenkauf
63. Look Again - Lisa Scottline
64. Tuskegee Love Letters - Kim Russell*
65. The Last Letter from Your Lover - Jojo Moyes
66. Loveless Vol. 9 - Yun Koga
67. The Lost Prince - Julie Kagawa
68. Word Smart - Adam Robinson*
69. The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight - Thom Hartmann*
70. Aerie - Mercedes Lackey
71. Swift’s Temptation - J.R. Loveless
72. Prayer Waltz - K.Z. Snow
73. No Going Home - T.A. Chase
74. Hero Type - Barry Lyga
75. Silver Moon - Rebecca A. Rogers

( Ratings & Reviews under the cut! )