Saturday Book Discussion: The Reading List 2012

I read 127 books and 18,730 pages this year - not quite as many as last year. Keeping in mind that a lot of those books were audiobooks, which weren't included in the page count.

Longest book of 2012

Swan Song, by Robert McCammon.

Best books of 2012

Losers in Space, by John Barnes.
Middlemarch, by George Eliot.
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, by Tom Franklin.
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell.
The Last Town on Earth, by Thomas Mullen.
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, by Catherynne M. Valente.
The Children of the Sky, by Vernor Vinge.
Winter's Bone, by Daniel Woodrell.

Worst book of 2012

I Will Fear No Evil, by Robert Heinlein.

Categories/Genres

Of the 127 books I read:

66 were audiobooks.
9 were ebooks.
50 were print books. (23 of these were graphic novels or manga.)
20 were non-fiction. (10 of these were go books.)
15 were on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list.
34 were science fiction.
18 were fantasy.
28 were young adult.

Ratings:

5 stars: 15
4 stars: 66
3 stars: 36
2 stars: 9
1 star: 1



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