Wednesday, January 1, 2014

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"

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