Anyway, I started out January with about two hundred unread books lying around the house and ended the month with...umm...uncountable amounts of books unread. All of the books that I acquired this year came from authors, Bookmooch, Paperback Swap and Library Book Sales. Quite a number of my books that I read this year left my house to go to new homes so that's something I guess. :)
Let me try to break down the influx for you:
Re-reads
- True Crime by Andrew Klavan
- A Song For the Asking by Steve Gannon
- Survivor by Christina Crawford
- Saving Face and Other Stories by Norah Lofts
- Bad Desire by Gary Devon
- The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
- The Angels of Morgan Hill by Donna VanLiere
- A Father's Story by Lionel Dahmer
- The Copper Beech by Maeve Binchy
- Devil's Gate by Elizabeth Ergas
- Life Wish by Jill Ireland
- Horror House by J. N. Williamson
- Beyond Reason by Margaret Trudeau
- The Good Mother by Sue Miller
- The Manhood Ceremony by Ross Berliner
- Up Island by Anne Rivers Siddons
- Echoes by Maeve Binchy
Changes to the TBR pile
Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
- Classic Mysteries: A Collection of Mind-Bending Masterpieces by Molly Cooper
- Kept in the Dark by Nina Bawden
- Julian's House by Judith Hawkes
- My Soul to Keep by Judith Hawkes
- Low Country by Anne Rivers Siddons
- The Secret Hour by Luanne Rice
- Emma Hamilton by Norah Lofts
- Sliver by Ira Levin
- The Goodbye Summer by Patricia Gaffney
- Black Coffee by Agatha Christie and Charles Osborne
- Cold Kill: The True Story of a Murderous Love by Jack Olsen
- Nothing Lasts Forever by Sidney Sheldon
- Scrolls of Darkness by Paul Henry Johnson
- Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
- Coroner by Thomas T. Noguchi, M. D. and Joseph DiMona
- Spectre Nightmares and Visitations by Pamela K. Kinney
- Islands by Anne Rivers Siddons
- Margaret Trudeau: The Prime Minister's Runaway Wife by Felicity Cochrane
- At Paradise Gate by Jane Smiley
- Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
- The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
- Duplicate Keys by Jane Smiley
- The President's Lady: A Novel About Rachel and Andrew Jackson by Irving Stone
- Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
- Coroner at Large by Thomas T. Noguchi, M. D. and Joseph Dimona
- Shades of Souls Passed: True Accounts of Ghostly Encounters in Madison County, New York by Teresa R. Andrews
- Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
- 13 by Philip Loraine
- Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon
- Scare Tactics by John Farris
- To Die is Not Enough: A True Account of Murder and Retribution by Donald Delano Wright
- An American Love Story by Rona Jaffe
- All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve
- A Village Affair by Joanna Trollope
- One Day at a Time by Danielle Steel
- While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
- Dancehall by Bernard F. Conners
- The Uncanny by Andrew Klavan
- Sea Glass by Anita Shreve
- Unsolved Mysteries...Stranger Than Fiction by Clifford L. Linedecker
- Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
- Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner
- The Devil's Hunt by P. C. Doherty
- The Carousel by Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Lives of Danielle Steel: The Unauthorized Biography of America's #1 Best-Selling Author by Vickie L. Bane and Lorenzo Benet
- Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Let the Magic Begin: Opening the Door to a Whole New World of Possibility by Cathy Lee Crosby
- Privileged Information by Stephen White
- Summer of the Red Wolf by Morris L. West
- Sunset in St. Tropez by Danielle Steel
- The Rector's Wife by Joanna Trollope
- Hollywood's Greatest Love Stories by Dick Kliener
- The Hampton Sisters by Bernard F. Conners
- Wife Found Slain by Caroline Crane
- The Letters by Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger
- The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe
- The Servant by Robin Maugham
- Lullaby and Good Night by Vincent Bugliosi and William Stadiem
- Anima by Marie Buchanan
- Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
- Sally: Unconventional Success by Sally Jessy Raphael and Pam Proctor
- The White Voyage by John Christopher
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- A Sight For Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
- The Saints and Sinners of Okay County by Dayna Dunbar
- Looking For Peyton Place by Barbara Delinsky
- Crooked House by Agatha Christie
- Only You by Cynthia Victor
- Endless Night by Agatha Christie
- Dead Run by Erica Spindler
- Common Ground by Helen Stancey
- Outer Banks by Anne Rivers Siddons
- The Case of Lucy Bending by Lawrence Sanders
- Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties by Sara Davidson
- Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
- Crescent City by Belva Plain
- Now You Know by Kitty Dukakis and Jane Scovell
- My Beloved Son by Catherine Cookson
- Claudia's Shadow by Charlotte Vale Allen
- Dear Doctor Lily by Monica Dickens
- Malice by Danielle Steel
- Family Treason: The Walker Spy Case by Jack Kneece
- The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour
- Change Baby by June Spence
- Fortune's Hand by Belva Plain
- Crossroads by Belva Plain
- Hill Towns by Anne Rivers Siddons
- Trust by Kate Veitch
- The Murderer's Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers
- The Loving Spirit by Daphne du Maurier
- Winter Harvest by Norah Lofts
- To the Devil a Daughter by Dennis Wheatley
Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! :))
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- Legacy of Silence by Belva Plain
- Daybreak by Belva Plain
- Impulse: Three Complete Novels by Barbara Delinsky, Tess Gerritsen and Linda Howard
- Lost by Gary Devon
- Rage by Elizabeth Ergas
- The Ice Bridge by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
- The Calling by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
- Evil Stalks the Night by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
- The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak
- Chill of Summer by Carol Brennan
- A Child's Garden of Death by Richard Forrest
- Skyward by Mary Alice Monroe
- Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen
- Girl in the Mirror by Mary Alice Monroe
- Almost Golden: Jessica Savitch and the Selling of Television News by Gwenda Blair
- After This by Alice McDermott
- The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
- Anne McKevitt's Style Solutions: 365 of the Freshest Looks, Smartest Tips and Best Advice For Your Home by Anne McKevitt
- Bargello Magic: How to Design Your Own by Pauline Fisher and Anabel Lasker
- Betty Crocker's Working Woman's Cookbook by Betty Crocker
- By the Lake by John McGahern
- Campbell's Quick Easy Recipes by Patricia Teberg
- Christmas Cross-Stitch by Better Homes and Gardens
- The Climb: Tragic Ambition on Everest by G. Weston Dewalt and Antoli Boukreev
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Commitments by Barbara Delinsky
- Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
- Deadly Grace by Taylor Smith
- Dream Country by Luanne Rice
- God's Other Son by Don Imus
- A Good Woman by Danielle Steel
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey
- The House on Hope Street by Danielle Steel
- Jordan's Bend by Carolyn Williford
- McNally's Folly by Vincent Lardo
- One Day by David Nicholls
- The Orphan Game by Ann Darby
- Past Perfect by Susan Isaacs
- A Patchwork Planet: A Novel by Anne Tyler
- The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
- Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink and Carol Brown Janeway
- Right Next Door by Debbie Macomber
- Saul and Patsy: A Novel by Charles Baxter
- Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
- Shattered by Karen Robards
- The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate
- A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
- Trial by Fire by Terri Blackstock
- Two Women: A Novel of Friendship by Marianne Fredriksson
- The Unnatural Inquirer by Simon R. Green
- The Weight of Silence: A Novel by Heather Gudenkauf
- Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
- Puppets by Daniel Hecht
- Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
- The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
- The Animal Hour by Andrew Klavan
- Pyramid of Skulls: A Novel of Timur, Warrior and Emperor by Martin Fructman
- Haunted Richmond II by Pamela K. Kinney
- Haunted Virginia: Legends, Myths and True Tales by Pamela K. Kinney
- The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King by James Patterson and Martin Dugard
- The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
- The Political Trial of Benjamin Franklin: A Prelude to the American Revolution by Kenneth Lawing Penegar
- The Captains' Airline: Pushing Back From the Brink by Art Samson
- Heartbreak Hotel by Anne Rivers Siddons
- In the Shadow of the School: Memories of Growing up in Rural North Kerry in the 1950's by Dick Carmody
- Silver Wedding by Maeve Binchy
- Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington by Mary Higgins Clark
- Downtown by Anne Rivers Siddons
- Prey by Linda Howard
- Victims by Jonathan Kellerman
- 44 Charles Street by Danielle Steel
- Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
- An Irish Country Christmas by Patrick Taylor
- Darkness, my Old Friend by Lisa Unger
Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :))
- The Defense Never Rests by F. Lee Bailey
- The Spanish Bridegroom by Jean Plaidy
- Insomnia by Stephen King
- To the Devil a Daughter by Dennis Wheatley
- The Murderer's Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers
- Easy Peasy by Lesley Glaister
- Miracle by Irving Wallace
- A Father's Story by Lionel Dahmer
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- The Mormon Murders by Gregory White Smith and Steven Naifeh
- The Loving Spirit by Daphne du Maurier
- Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
- The Covenant of the Flame by David Morrell
- The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
- The Serpent's Mark by Robert L. Duncan
- Mistral's Daughter by Judith Krantz
- Tell me no Lies by Joy Fielding
-The Angels of Morgan Hill by Donna VanLiere
-The Doctor's Wife: A True Story of Marriage, Deception and Two Gruesome Deaths by John Glatt
- Goldilocks by Andrew Coburn
- The Haunting of Sara Lessingham by Margaret James
- Thinner by Stephen King
- Contents Under Pressure by Edna Buchanan
- Common Ground by Helen Stancey
- The Case of Lucy Bending by Lawrence Sanders
- Critical Judgment by Michael Palmer
- Thin Air by Robert B. Parker
- Crooked House by Agatha Christie
- False Witness by Dorothy Uhnak
- Six Great Modern Plays by Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw and Sean O'Casey
- Charmed Life by Bernard Taylor
- The Funhouse by Owen West
- Perfect Victim: The True Story of the 'Girl in the Box' by Christine McGuire and Carla Norton
- The Story of Winston Churchill by Alida Sims Malkus
- The Prodigal Daughter by Jeffrey Archer
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- The Ugly Duckling by Iris Johansen
- Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
- Walking Shadow by Robert B. Parker
- The First Victim by Ridley Pearson
- Legion by William Peter Blatty
- Thornyhold by Mary Stewart
- The Servant by Robert Maugham
- Darkness Falls by Joyce Anne Schneider
- Just Tell me What You Want by Jay Presson Allen
- The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour
- A Sight For Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
- All Heads Turn as the Hunt Goes By by John Farris
-The Great Fire by Monica Dickens
- Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
- Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
- Privileged Information by Stephen White
- Skull Session by Daniel Hecht
- The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour
- Harvest by Tess Gerritsen
- The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan
- The Devil's Hunt by P. C. Doherty
- True Crime by Andrew Klavan
- The Shadow Guest by Hillary Waugh
- Still Waters by Tami Hoag
- Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner
- Horror House by J. N. Williamson
- Let the Magic Begin: Opening the Door to a Whole New World of Possibility by Cathy Lee Crosby
- The Letters by Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger
- Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice
- Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon
- A Whisper in the Attic by Gloria Murphy
- Scare Tactics by John Farris
- The Uncanny by Andrew Klavan
- 13 by Philip Loraine
- Shades of Souls Passed: True Accounts of Ghostly Encounters in Madison County, New York by Teresa R. Andrews
- Hawaii by James A. Michener
- Quentins by Maeve Binchy
- The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy
- My Beloved Son by Catherine Cookson
- The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney
- Sweet Everlasting by Patricia Gaffney
- Everlasting by Nancy Thayer
- The Secrets of Lake Success by Janet Quin-Harkin
- Inheritance by Judith Michael
- The President's Lady: A Novel About Rachel and Andrew Jackson by Irving Stone
- Where or When by Anita Shreve
- Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
- Master Builders of the Middle Ages by David Jacobs
- The Juror by George Dawes Green
- Blood Will Tell by Gary Cartwright
- Lullaby and Good Night by Vincent Bugliosi and William Stadiem
- Man With a Gun by Robert Daley
- Coroner by Thomas T. Noguchi, M. D. and Joseph DiMona
- Hannibal by Thomas Harris
- The Manhood Ceremony by Ross Berliner
- Spectre Nightmares and Visitations by Pamela K. Kinney
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- Scrolls of Darkness by Paul Henry Johnson
- Practical Fish Dishes by P3 Publishing
- Blood Memories by Barb Hendee
- Where River Turns to Sky by Gregg Kleiner
- The Complete Rhyming Dictionary by Clement Wood
- The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell
- Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties by Sara Davidson
- At Paradise Gate by Jane Smiley
- Duplicate Keys by Jane Smiley
- The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
- The Swarm by Arthur Herzog
Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading year for me. Here's a further breakdown:- Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties by Sara Davidson
- At Paradise Gate by Jane Smiley
- Duplicate Keys by Jane Smiley
- The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
- The Swarm by Arthur Herzog
Books Read: 110
Pages Read: 35,050
Grade Range: A+! to B+!
So, there you go! The reading year that was 2012! I hope that you all had an equally good reading year; if not a little better. :) See you all next year! :)
Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight
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