Books of 2012

This is the first year I've kept a close track of my non-work-related reading for the entire year.  I've been using www.goodreads.com; I like the way you can combine your social networks (i.e. your facebook connections) with your book lists and the easy way you can track books you are currently reading, have read, and want to read.

I haven't finished everything I wanted to get to this year (but realistically this would be impossible, there are 300 books on my long list and lately I've been starting books that aren't on either that or my shortlist!).  Here's a quick list of what I did read:

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Old Man's War by John Scalzi
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann
• The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
• Zero History by William Gibson
• Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s edited by Pamela Sargent
• Choke Collar by Margaret Atwood
• I'm Starved for You by Margaret Atwood
• Feynman by Jim Ottaviani
• The Kingkiller Chronicle (#1 and #2) by Patrick Rothfuss
• Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s edited by Pamela Sargent
• The Hunger Games (all three books) by Suzanne Collins
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Reamde by Neal Stephenson

I covered a good range of short stories, science fiction, fantasy, and straight up fiction, as well as nonfiction, YA, and graphic novel.  I enjoyed just about everything, but to be honest Reamde was a bit of a disappointment.  I'm eagerly awaiting the next installment of Margaret Atwood's Positron series!