Books I Read 2012

Each category is in order of when I read it...

Bold means I now own it in book form. Italics means I own it in Kindle ebook form.

Top 8 Personal Favorites (Fiction and Non-Fiction):

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
2.  The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
3.  Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art - Christopher Moore 
4. The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1) - Patrick Rothfuss (autographed)
5. Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor
6. Frozen Heat - Richard Castle
7. The End of Your Life Book Club - Will Scwalbe 
8. The Dresden Files Books (In general- breakdown below) - Jim Butcher

Fiction Awesome:

• The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
• Slaughter House 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith
• Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
• Heat Rises - Richard Castle (Autographed)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
• Rant - Chuck Palaniuk
• The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Holy Night - Seth Grahame-Smith
• In One Person - John Irving
• 1984 - George Orwell
• A Game of Thrones (A Song of Fire and Ice #1) - George R. R. Martin
• The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
• Storm Front (Dresden Files #1) - Jim Butcher
• Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
• Stardust - Neil Gaiman
• A Clash of Kings (A Song of Fire and Ice #2) - George R. R. Martin
• Fool Moon (The Dresden Files #2) - Jim Butcher
• Grave Peril (The Dresden Files #3) - Jim Butcher
• Summer Knight (The Dresden Files #4) - Jim Butcher 
• Death Masks (The Dresden Files #5) - Jim Butcher
• Blood Rites (The Dresden Files #6) - Jim Butcher 
• Days of Blood and Starlight (Daughter of Smoke and Bone #2) - Laini Taylor
• Dead Beat (The Dresden Files #7) - Jim Butcher

Non-Fiction Awesome:

• The Nerdist Way - Chris Hardwick
• Women, Work and the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense and Sensibility - Mireille Guiliano
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
• Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher

Fiction Recommended:

• Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
• Tell-All - Chuck Palaniuk
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
• An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson #1) - Rick Riordan
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Austenland - Shannon Hale (Guilty Pleasure!)
• Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 
• The Color Purple - Alice Walker
• Dodger - Terry Prachett
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 
• Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach
• Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
• Damned - Chuck Palahniuk

Non-Fiction Recommended:

• Barrel Fever and Other Stories - David Sedaris
• The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century - Thomas L. Friedman
• Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

Fiction NOT Recommended:

• Airhead #1 - Meg Cabot
• Lunatics: A Novel - Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel
• The Leftovers - Tom Perrotta 
• The Time Keeper - Mitch Albom
• Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules - David Sedaris 
• The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling