At the beginning of the year I set myself the goal of reading 36 books. Not much of a goal, really, as that’s the number of books I’ve read on average since I started keeping a list in 2008. So in effect my goal was to read an average number of books. I hit the goal back on the 21st. I started reading The Coldest Winter, not expecting to finish it until well into next month. But then Genae brought a brand new book home from the library for me, with a seven day limit on it, so I managed to sneak another one in to exceed the goal by one.
I’ve been thinking that my goal for 2013 should be 32 because I have several very long books coming to the top of the “to-read” list. The third Game of Thrones book weighs in at nearly a thousand pages, Massey’s Peter the Great is something like seven hundred, and Manchester’s MacArthur bio is on the order of eight. Each of those should count for two! But I’ll keep it at 36 and aim high.
Here’s the 2012 list.
Date | Title | Author | Pages | Subject |
01/09/12 | The Assault on Reason | Gore, Al | 308 | Politics |
01/22/12 | A Clash of Kings | Martin, George R. R. | 760 | Fantasy |
02/08/12 | Millard Fillmore | Rayback, Robert J. | 470 | Bio – Pres. |
02/12/12 | Red Orchestra | Nelson, Anne | 388 | WW II |
03/04/12 | Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy | Volkogonov, Dmitri | 642 | Biography |
03/06/12 | The Fear Index | Harris, Robert | 286 | Fiction |
03/18/12 | War in the Sun | Hodson, James | 449 | WW II |
03/27/12 | Hitler’s Peace | Kerr, Philip | 448 | Fiction |
04/21/12 | Franklin Pierce | Nichols, Roy Franklin | 625 | Bio – Pres. |
04/25/12 | Counterfeiter | Nachtstern, Moritz | 288 | Holocaust |
05/11/12 | Europe and the French Imperium | Bruun, Geoffrey | 280 | History |
05/21/12 | Fatal Crossroads | Parker, Danny S. | 390 | WW II |
05/23/12 | The Sharp End | Ellis, John | 372 | WW II |
06/05/12 | Catherine the Great | Massie, Robert K. | 625 | Biography |
06/20/12 | 1943: The Victory that Never Was | Grigg, John | 248 | WW II |
07/17/12 | Caesar’s Women | McCullough, Colleen | 696 | Fiction |
07/22/12 | American Miracle | Sill, Van Rensselaer | 301 | WW II |
08/14/12 | President James Buchanan | Klein, Philip Shriver | 506 | Bio – Pres. |
09/01/12 | Existence | Brin, David | 556 | Sci Fi |
09/10/12 | Penalty Strike | Pyl’Cyn, Alexander | 204 | WW II |
09/16/12 | The Great Gates | Sprague, Marshall | 468 | History |
09/20/12 | Fate of Worlds | Niven, Larry; Lerner, Edward M. | 317 | Sci Fi |
09/27/12 | From Nazi Sources | Sternberg, Fritz | 208 | WW II |
10/16/12 | The Transparent Society | Brin, David | 384 | Politics |
10/18/12 | Escape from the Deep | Kershaw, Alex | 270 | WW II |
11/02/12 | With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln | Oates, Stephen | 492 | Bio – Pres. |
11/05/12 | Lionel Asbo: State of England | Amis, Martin | 255 | Fiction |
11/08/12 | The Flame Keepers | Handy, Ned | 325 | WW II |
11/10/12 | Team Lotus: My View from the Pit Wall | Warr, Peter | 240 | Motor Sports |
11/16/12 | A Dead Hand | Theroux, Paul | 279 | Fiction |
11/25/12 | The American Axis | Wallace, Max | 465 | History |
12/06/12 | Caesar | McCullough, Colleen | 664 | Fiction |
12/08/12 | Rome Was My Beat | Packard, Reynolds | 338 | Memoir |
12/11/12 | Stormtrooper on the Eastern Front | Blosfelds, Mintauts | 207 | WW II |
12/15/12 | Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million | Amis, Martin | 320 | History |
12/21/12 | The Battle of Midway | Symonds, Craig L. | 452 | WW II |
12/30/12 | Hell in the Pacific | McEnery, Jim | 305 | WW II |