2012: My Books

Below are two lists.  One is a list of books I’ve read this year, and the second is the same list but reorganised in my order of enjoyment.  Some people are impressed when I tell them I’ve read over 30 books this year but I don’t really think it’s that much – just 2 and a half books per month, which isn’t really all that much overall reading time.  I’m hoping to achieve more next year!

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1. Shooting an Elephant and other Essays (1950) – George Orwell
2. Animal Farm (1945) – George Orwell
3. Homage to Catalonia (1938) – George Orwell
4. Macbeth (1606) – William Shakespeare
5. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) – George Orwell
6. Lord of the Flies (1954) – William Golding
7. Foundation (1951) – Isaac Asimov
8. Foundation and Empire (1952) – Isaac Asimov
9. Second Foundation (1953) – Isaac Asimov
10. A Study in Scarlet (1887) – Arthur Conan Doyle
11. The Sign of the Four (1890) – Arthur Conan Doyle
12. Brave New World (1932) – Aldous Huxley
13. We (1924) – Yevgeny Zamyatin
14. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) – JD Salinger
15. The Hunger Games (2008) – Suzanne Collins
16. Catching Fire (2009) – Suzanne Collins
17. Mockingjay (2010) – Suzanne Collins
18. Frankenstein (1818) – Mary Shelley
19. The Magician’s Nephew (1955) (re-read) – C.S. Lewis
20. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
21. Zamyatin’s We: Essays – Various authors
22. Huxley’s Brave New World – Various authors
23. 20th Century Interpretations of Nineteen Eighty Four – Various authors
24. The War of the Worlds (1898) – H. G. Wells
25. Life on the Refrigerator Door (2007) – Alice Kuipers
26. On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and our Future – Various authors
27. God’s Own Country (2009) – Ross Raisin
28. Foreign Parts (1995) – Janice Galloway
29. Street Duty: Case One, Knock Down (2012) – Chris Ould
30. The Road (2006) – Cormac McCarthy
31. The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989) – Janice Galloway
32. Antony and Cleopatra (1623) – William Shakespeare
33. Othello (1603) – William Shakespeare
34. The Northern Lights (1995) (re-read) – Philip Pullman
35. The Subtle Knife (1997) (re-read) – Philip Pullman
36. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) – Oscar Wilde
37. The Amber Spyglass (2000) (re-read) – Philip Pullman
38. The Casual Vacancy (2012) – J. K. Rowling

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1. The Amber Spyglass (2000) (re-read) – Philip Pullman
2. Mockingjay (2010) – Suzanne Collins
3. The Hunger Games (2008) – Suzanne Collins
4. Animal Farm (1945) – George Orwell
5. The Casual Vacancy (2012) – J. K. Rowling
6. Catching Fire (2009) – Suzanne Collins
7. Foundation and Empire (1952) – Isaac Asimov
8. A Study in Scarlet (1987) – Arthur Conan Doyle
9. Foundation (1951) – Isaac Asimov
10. Lord of the Flies (1954) – William Golding
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) – Oscar Wilde
12. The Subtle Knife (1997) (re-read) – Philip Pullman
13. Shooting an Elephant and other Essays (1950) – George Orwell
14. Homage to Catalonia (1938) – George Orwell
15. Brave New World (1932) – Aldous Huxley
16. Antony and Cleopatra (1623) – William Shakespeare
17. The Northern Lights (1995) (re-read) – Philip Pullman
18. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) – George Orwell
19. God’s Own Country (2009) – Ross Raisin
20. The Road (2006) – Cormac McCarthy
21. Othello (1603) – William Shakespeare
22. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
23. Frankenstein (1818) – Mary Shelley
24. Macbeth (1606) – William Shakespeare
25. Life on the Refrigerator Door (2007) – Alice Kuipers
26. Second Foundation (1953) – Isaac Asimov
27. Street Duty: Case One, Knock Down (2012) – Chris Ould
28. The War of the Worlds (1898) – H. G. Wells
29. We (1924) – Yevgeny Zamyatin
30. The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989) – Janice Galloway
31. The Magician’s Nephew (1955) (re-read) – C.S. Lewis
32. The Sign of the Four (1890) – Arthur Conan Doyle
33. Zamyatin’s We: Essays – Various authors
34. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) – JD Salinger
35. Foreign Parts (1995) – Janice Galloway
36. On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and our Future – Various authors
37. 20th Century Interpretations of Nineteen Eighty Four – Various authors
38. Huxley’s Brave New World – Various authors