Book Log for 2013 - 29 Books Total

This year I didn't really start off right out of the gate reading. It took awhile to get going, so I only totaled 29 books. Some gems in this list, but this coming year I'm going to redouble my efforts. Still have so much to read!

1.  Ali, Monica “Brick Lane”
2.  O’Donnell, Helen “A Common Good: The Friendship of Robert F. Kennedy and Kenneth P. O’Donnell”
3. Childress, Mark “Crazy in Alabama”
4. Warren, Patricia Nell “The Fancy Dancer”
5. Harris, Charlaine “Dead in the Family”
6. Carter, Jimmy “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”
7. Flynn, Gillian “Sharp Objects”
8. Martin, George R.R. “A Game of Thrones: Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire”
9. Berenbaum, Michael “The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum” (Second Edition)
10.  Tyler, Royall “Japanese Tales”
11.  Winterson, Jeanette “Sexing the Cherry”
12.  Grant, Michael “The Roman Emperors: A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome 31 B.C. – 476 A.D.”
13. Martin, George R.R. “A Clash of Kings: Book Two of A Song of Ice and Fire”
14. Garza, Hedda “Barred from the Bar: A History of Women and the Legal Profession”
15. Canfield, Jack, Mark Victor Hansen, Marty Becker, D.V.M., Carol Kline and Amy Shojai “Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover’s Soul”
16. Hart, Bret “Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling”
17. Baxendale, Trevor “Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks”
18. Tsutsui, William “Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of the Monsters”
19. Goldstone, Nancy “The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily”
20.  Jones, Ann “Women Who Kill”
21. Tolstoy, Leo and Ben H. Winters “Android Karenina”
22. Schieffer, Bob “This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV”
23. Da, Lottie and Jan Alexander “Bad Girls of the Silver Screen”
24.  Lloyd,  Rachel “Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not For Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself”
25. Matysik, Larry “Drawing Heat the Hard Way: How Wrestling Really Works”
26.  Lucado, Max “No Wonder They Call Him the Savior”
27. Stevens, Kate “Freak Nation: A Field Guide to 101 of the MOST Odd, Extreme, and Outrageous American Subcultures”
28. Schwartz, John Burnham “The Commoner”
29. Carter, Bill “The War For Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy”

Book Log for 2012 - 30 Books Total

Not all that impressive, given my earlier book totals. But some great books read in 2012.

1.  Day, Malcolm “Amazing and Extraordinary Facts: Kings & Queens”
2. Swint, Kerwin “Mudslingers: The Twenty-Five Dirties Political Campaigns of All Time”
3. Stewart, Jon “Earth (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race”
4. Wiesel, Elie “Night”
5. Reynolds, R.D. & Randy Baer “WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Pro-Wrestling”
6. LeRoux, Gaston “The Phantom of the Opera”
7.  Lindsey, Karen “Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII”
8. Gilman, Susan Jane “Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess”
9. Larsson, Stieg “The Girl Who Played with Fire”
10. Lewis, C.S. “The Problem of Pain”
11. Jericho, Chris with Peter Thomas Fornatale “Undisputed: How to Become the World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps”
12. King, Greg “The Mad King: The Life and Times of Ludwig II of Bavaria”
13. Behrendt, Greg & Amiira Ruotola “It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken: The Smart Girl’s Breakup Buddy”
14. Perrotta, Tom “The Leftovers”
15. Hearn, Marcus & Alan Barnes “The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films”
16. Green, Vivian “The Madness of Kings: Personal Trama and the Fate of Nations”
17. Spark, Muriel “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”
18.  Pollitt, Katha “Virginity or Death! And Other Social and Political Issues of our Time”
19.  Larsson, Stieg “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”
20. Grealy, Lucy “Autobiography of a Face” (With an Afterword by Ann Patchett)
21. Collins, Gail “When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present”
22. Blaine, Gerald with Lisa McCubbin “The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence”
23. Chandler, Charlotte “She Always Knew How: Mae West, A Personal Biography”
24. Pascoe, C.J. “Dude You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School”
25. Hindley, Geoffrey “A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The Beginnings of the English Nation”
26. Thompson, Ernest "On Golden Pond"
27. Steinbeck, John "The Pearl"
28. Steinbeck, John "Of Mice and Men"
29. Gregory, Philippa "The Red Queen"
30. Rabinor, Ph.D., Judith Ruskay "A Starving Madness: Tales of Hunger, Hope and Healing in Psychotherapy"