2012 Reading Round-Up
Another Year Has Ended
2012 was a good year in reading. I finished 108 books exceeding my personal goal of 100. Sixty of those books were audiobooks, a new high for me.
I completed six of seven challenges. This year I am only participating in a couple of no-pressure challenges so that I have time to join readalongs and other events throughout the year without worrying about whether the book fits into a category.
10 Favorite Books Read in 2012
These are based on the year I read them, not when they were published.
Fiction:
The Dog Stars
Redshirts
Beautiful Ruins
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
The Chaperone
The Shoemaker’s Wife
Non-Fiction:
I just finished the Steve Jobs book and haven’t posted my review yet. When I went to link to my review of The Bluebird Effect I couldn’t find it and realized I had never written it. It was a fantastic memoir, and I rarely rave about memoirs. I’ll post about it soon.
The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds
Steve Jobs
The Violinists’s Thumb
MWF Seeking BFF
Happy New Year
Thanks to everyone who stopped by to read and comment during 2012. I appreciate every one of you. I wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
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Nice list…The Shoemaker’s Wife and The Chaperone sound good. I have seen them about blog-o-sphere this past year. 🙂
Happy New Year!!
My list of favorites is in the link below.
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
My Favorite Books of 2012
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I’ve read 3 of those books and really enjoyed all of them so I’m making note of some of the others. Happy New Year!!
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Looks like a great year in reading. here’s to another banner year in 2013
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The Shoemaker’s Wife was on my list of top books read in 2012, too. I LOVED it!!!
I’m super impressed that you were able to listen to 60 audio books this year…I listened to 29 and thought that was a lot!
Happy New Year!!!
~Kristin @ Always With a Book
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You’ve had a wonderful year of reading! Looking forward to your reviews (and photos) n the New Year!
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What a great year of reading 🙂 Here’s to another in 2013!
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You had a great year — 60 audio books is awesome. I had 40 I believe. Here’s to a Happy 2013!
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I’m impressed with the 60 audiobooks! I listened to more of them this year as well. It’s such a great option, isn’t it?
Beautiful Ruins, The Chaperone and The Shoemaker’s Wife were also among my favorites. I hope 2013 will be a great reading year for you, Leslie. Happy New Year!
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Happy new year! That ()#&$&# Dog Stars! I still haven’t had a chance to get my hands on it. I guess I could order it (as I should MWF Seeking BFF) but the tbr is SO big! I’m sure they’re both fantastic so one of these days I’ll just go for it!
I also love Beautiful Ruins. Not sure it makes it on my favorites list yet…
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great list!
here is my wrap-up, with pies and charts:
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We have some favorites in common there. It’s nice seeing the violinist’s thumb on your list too – I haven’t seen that on many other favorites lists, but I loved it.
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I’ve seen Where’d You Go, Bernadette in a couple of other best-of-2012 lists and now I’m really curious about it. Happy New Year Leslie!
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Since I have The Violinist’s Thumb on my shelf thanks to you I should probably get around to reading it~
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