Read 2012

My 2012 Reading List.

All books link back to the original review and through my affiliate link to Amazon.co.uk

Key to Abbreviations.

AV = Amazon Vine – Freebie chosen from a list offered to ‘Vine Voices’;  B = Borrowed from friends or family;  G = Gift – Birthdays and Christmas etc;  LTER = Freebie from the Librarything Early Reviewers draw;  O = Own – I paid money for this book or did a swap for it;  RP = Freebie requested from the publisher – where I requested a particular book;  PS = Freebie from publisher, sent after asking if I’d like a copy;  UNS = Unsolicited freebie; finally an asterisk * = from the TBR (acquired before 1.1.12)

JANUARY
1. Gods Without Men by Kari Kunzru (9/10), AV* – Review Buy
2. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (#2)by Sue Townsend, PS* – Buy
3. True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole (#3) by Sue Townsend, PS* – Buy
4. Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (#4)by Sue Townsend (8/10) PS* – Buy
5. Riders by Jilly Cooper (8/10) O* – Review Buy
6. Party Going by Henry Green (8.5/10) O* – Review Buy
7. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (9/10) O* – Review Buy

FEBRUARY
8. The Man Who Rained by Ali Shaw (9/10) O* – Review Buy
9. The Child Who by Simon Lelic (8.5/10) AV* – Review Buy
10. Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (#5) by Sue Townsend PS*Buy
11. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe (9.5/10) O* Review Buy
12. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Whaling by Gideon Defoe (8.5/10) O* Review Buy
13. The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico – O* Review
14. Up Till Now by William Shatner with David Fisher (8.5/10) O* – Review Buy
15. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (10/10) AV* Review Buy
16. The killer inside me by Jim Thompson (10/10) O* Review Buy

MARCH
17. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder (7/10) O Review Buy
18. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan O* Review Buy
19. The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge (9/10) O* Review Buy
20. Something borrowed (Brenda 2) by Paul Magrs (9/10) O* Review Buy
21. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R King (9/10) G* Review Buy
22. Newton’s Swing by Chris Paling (9.5/10) O* Review Buy
23. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (9/10) AV* Review Buy

APRIL
24. Linger Awhile by Russell Hoban O* (6.5/10) Review Buy
25. Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr O* (10/10) Review Buy
26. The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen AV (8/10) Review Buy
27. Konstantin by Tom Bullough PS (9/10) Review Buy
28. Death and the Olive Grove by Marco Vichi AV (8/10) Buy
29. Wonder by R J Palacio AV (8/10) Review Buy
30. The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh PS (9/10) Review Buy
31. The Paper House by Carlos Maria Dominguez O* (7/10) Review Buy
32. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark O* (7.5/10) Review Buy

MAY
33. Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan PS (7/10) Review Buy
34. The Devil’s Beat by Robert Edric AV (7.5/10) Review Buy
35. Snoop by Samuel Gosling O* (6.5/10) Review Buy
36. Wolves of the Calla: Dark Tower #5 by Stephen King O* (8.5/10) Review Buy
37. The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa O* (9/10) Review Buy
38. HHhH by Laurent Binet AV (6.5/10) Review Buy

JUNE
39. The Devil’s Garden by Edward Docx AV (8.5/10) Review Buy
40. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson G* (9/10) Review Buy
41. The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon PS Review Buy
42. Harriet Said by Beryl Bainbridge O (8/10) Review Buy
43. Sweet William by Beryl Bainbridge O (9/10) Review Buy
44. Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge O* (8.5/10) Review Buy
45. A Quiet Life by Beryl Bainbridge O (7/10) – Review Buy
46. Front Row: Nights at the Theatre by Beryl Bainbridge O (8/10) – Review Buy
47. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus O (6/10) – Buy

JULY
48. On the Cold Coasts by Vilborg Davidsdottir AV (8/10) – Review
49. Waiting for Robert Capa by Susanna Fortes PS (9/10) – Review Buy
50. The Dark Volume (Glass Books vol 2) by G W Dahlquist O* (7.5/10) – Review Buy
51. The Collini Case by Ferdinand Von Schirach AV (8.5/10) – Buy
52. My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber O Buy
53. Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann O* (8.5/10) – Buy
54. The Chemickal Marriage by G W Dahlquist PS (8/10) – Review Buy
55. Caroline: A Mystery by Cornelius Medvei AV (9/10) – Buy

AUGUST
56. My Policeman by Bethan Roberts AV (10/10) Review Buy
57. I Have Waited, and You Have Come by Martine McDonagh PS – Review Buy
58. Raven Black (Shetland Quartet 1) by Ann Cleeves O (9/10) -Review Buy
59. My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic: Everything You Need to Know About Art, Ads, Life, God and Other
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Mysteries and Weren’t Afraid to Ask by Charles Saatchi – O – Review Buy
60. August is a wicked month by Edna O’Brien O (9/10) – Review Buy
61. City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris – O – Buy
62-4. The Missing Trilogy by Sophie McKenzie – O/O/PS – Buy: Girl, Missing; Sister, Missing; Missing Me
65. Morgue Drawer Next Door by Jutta Profijt AV (8.5/10) Review Buy

SEPTEMBER
66. John Saturnall’s Feast by Lawrence Norfolk B (9/10) – Review Buy
67. The Cove by Ron Rash AV (9/10) – Review Buy
68. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness B (10/10) – Review Buy (illus) Buy (non illustrated) Book Group review
69. Winter Journal by Paul Auster PS (9.5/10) – Review Buy
70. The summer of dead toys by Antonio Hill AV (6.5/10) – Review Buy
71. All fall down by Sally Nicholls AV (8.5/10) – Review B
72. City of Thieves by David Benioff B – Buy
73. Luminous Airplanes by Paul LaFarge PS – Review Buy

OCTOBER
74. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling O (6/10) – Review Buy
75. Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt PS (10/10) – Review Buy
76. The very persistent gappers of Frip by George Saunders O (8/10) – Review Buy
77. Laura Lamont’s life in pictures by Emma Straub AV (7.5/10) Review Buy
78. N-W by Zadie Smith PS (8/10) – Buy
79. The Darling Buds of May by HE Bates O (10/10) – Buy
80. The Heart Broke in by James Meek AV (9/10) – ReviewBuy

November
81. The Killing Floor (Jack Reacher 1) by Lee Child O (8.5/10) – Review Buy
82. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford O (8/10) Review Buy
83. What are you looking at? by Will Gompertz AV (8.5/10) – Review Buy
84. My First Wife by Jakob Wassermann, trans Michael Hofmann AV (7.5) – Review Buy
85. Beryl Bainbridge: Artist, Writer, Friend by Psiche Hughes AV (10/10) – Review Buy
86. The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp by Eva Rice PS (8/10) – Review Buy

DECEMBER
87. Winter Games by Rachel Johnson AV (8.5/10) – Buy by Rachel Johnson
88. The Universe vs Alex Woods by Gavin Extence AV – Buy
89. Oh Dear Silvia by Dawn French AV – Buy
90. Professor Andersen’s night by Dag Solstad (6.5/10) O, Review, Buy