BOOKS I READ IN 2012
Below is a list of the books I read in 2012, and also the challenges I am participating in this year. Wish me luck!
CURRENT PROGRESS: 69 of 52 books (133% complete!)
January
- How to Photograph Children: Practical Advice & Tips for Taking Amazing Photos of Your Kids by Angelina Brown
- Draculaby Bram Stoker {REVIEW coming}
- Carrie by Stephen King {REVIEW}
- Chill Run by Russell Brooks {REVIEW}
- Organized Simplicity by Tsh Oxenreider {REVIEW}
- Wanted: Gentleman Bank Robber by Dane Batty {REVIEW}
- The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1) by Holly Black {REVIEW}
- Graveminder by Melissa Marr {REVIEW }
February
- The Green Mile – Six Volume Box Set by Stephen King {REVIEW coming}
- The Seeing Stone (The Spiderwick Chronicles #2) by Holly Black {REVIEW}
- Lucinda’s Secret (Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 3) by Holly Black {REVIEW}
- The Ironwood Tree (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 4) by Holly Black {REVIEW}
- The Wrath of Mulgarath (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 5)by Holly Black {REVIEW coming}
- The Nixie’s Song (Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1)by Tony DiTerlizzi {REVIEW coming}
- A Giant Problem (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles)by Holly Black {REVIEW coming}
- Shadowbloom: Rhyme of the Willow by The Sullivan Brothers {REVIEW}
March
- The Wyrm King (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 3)by Holly Black {REVIEW coming}
- The Woman in Black A Ghost Story by Susan Hill {REVIEW}
- The Gift Giver: A True Story by Jennifer Hawkins {REVIEW }
APRIL
- The Walking Dead, Book 1 (Bk. 1)by Robert Kirkman {REVIEW coming}
- The Dragons of Chiril: A Novel by Donita K. Paul {REVIEW}
- Eden’s Root by Rachel Fisher {REVIEW}
- Encounter with Hell: My Terrifying Clash with a Demonic Entity by Alexis McQuillan {REVIEW}
- Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig {REVIEW}
MAY
- The BlueStocking Girl: The von Strassenberg Saga by Gwenn Wright {REVIEW}
- Write Your Book Now!: A Proven System to Start and FINISH the Book You’ve Always Wanted to Write (Great Books for Writers) by Gene Perret {REVIEW}
- Velveteen by Daniel Marks {REVIEW}
- Fated (Soul Seekers) by Alyson Noël {REVIEW}
- The Secret Life of Copernicus H. Stringfellow by Lorin Barber {REVIEW}
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern {REVIEW coming}
JUNE
- Demon Days by Richard Finney {REVIEW}
- Curses an F**ked Up Fairytale by JA Kazimer {REVIEW }
JULY
- The Walking Dead book TWO by Robert Kirkman {REVIEW coming}
- Unnatural Law by Natasha Larry {REVIEW}
AUGUST
- Island Eyes, Island Skies by Richard Henry Levine {REVIEW}
- I Am Legend: And Other Storiesby Richard Matheson {REVIEW coming}
- The Fast-Track Course on How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal by Stephen Blake Mettee {REVIEW}
- Ad Nauseam by C.W. LaSart {REVIEW coming}
- Tandem by Tracey Bateman {REVIEW }
- Darkroot by The Sullivan Brothers {REVIEW coming}
- Finding Poe by Leigh M. Lane {REVIEW}
SEPTEMBER
- It by Stephen King {REVIEW coming}
- Cinder: Book One in the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer {watch the LIVE BOOKCLUB STREAM}
- Reality Bites: Tales of a Half-Vampire by Shaunda Kennedy Wenger {REVIEW}
- The Unwantedsby Lisa McMann {REVIEW}
- The Night Has Teeth (Volume 1) by Kat Kruger {REVIEW}
OCTOBER
- Enclave by Ann Aguirre {watch the LIVE BOOKCLUB STREAM}
- Shades of Souls Passed by Teresa Andrews {REVIEW}
- The Calypso Directive: A Novel by Brian Andrews {REVIEW}
- Amarok by Angela Townsend {REVIEW}
- The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff {REVIEW coming}
- The Telling by Mike Duran {REVIEW }
- In the Tall Grass by Stephen King {REVIEW}
- House On Butcher Harbor by Lisa Lewis Moon {REVIEW }
NOVEMBER
- Sitting Kills, Moving Heals: How Everyday Movement Will Prevent Pain, Illness, and Early Death – and Exercise Alone Won’t by Joan Vernikos PhD {REVIEW }
- New Kids on the Block: Five Brothers and a Million Sisters by Nikki Van Noy {REVIEW coming}
- Cursed by Jennifer L. Armentrout {REVIEW }
DECEMBER
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien {watch the LIVE BOOKCLUB STREAM}
- Island of Silence (Unwanteds) by Lisa McMann {REVIEW }
- The Clockwork Sky, Volume One by Madeleine Rosca {REVIEW coming}
- Little Magic Shop of Horrors: Deadtime Stories by Gina Cascone {REVIEW coming}
- Dear Dumb Diary Year Two #3: Nobody’s Perfect. I’m As Close As It Gets. by Jim Benton {REVIEW coming}
- Sectors by Brick Marlin {REVIEW coming}
- Drawing Blood by Richard Finney {REVIEW }
- The Dead and Buried by Kim Harrington {REVIEW coming}
- Dr. Frankenstein’s Daughters by Suzanne Weyn {REVIEW coming}
- The Last Dragonslayer: The Chronicles of Kazam, Book 1 by Jasper Fforde
THE CHALLENGES:
Goodreads –52 books in 2012 (see progress above)
Clash of the Classics– 6 Classics in 2012 (1 of 6 complete)
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
Sundays with Stevie – Stephen King books read in 2012
- Carrie by Stephen King
- The Green Mile – Six Volume Box Set by Stephen King
- IT by Stephen King
- In the Tall Grass by Stephen King
Name that Thing Challenge (Horror Edition)– Titles starting with letters in your name
- B Blackbirdsby Chuck Wendig
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