Books I Read in 2012

These are mostly in reverse order. Some I received for free. Some I had to read for work. Some were gifted or recommended to me. Only one, the first, was read on an e-reader. Favorites are bolded.

• Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalan
• The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Margot Livesey
• Gods in Alabama, Joshilyn Jackson
• Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter
• The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
• Carry the One, Carol Anshaw
• Falling Together, Marisa de los Santos
• A Land More Kind Than Home, Wiley Cash
• Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
• On the Floor, Aifric Campbell
• The One I Left Behind, Jennifer McMahon
• The Pink Hotel, Anna Stothard
• Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill
• Love Bomb, Lisa Zeidner
• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan
• Swimming Home, Deborah Levy
• The Dubious Salvation of Jack V, Jacquess Strauss
• Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan
• Threats, Amelia Gray
• People Who Eat Darkness, Richard Lloyd Parry
• State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
• The Orchardist, Amanda Coplin
• How to Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran
• This is How, Augusten Burroughs
• The Sisters, Nancy Jensen
• Where We Belong, Emily Giffin
• Revenge, Yoko Ogawa
• Lives Other Than My Own, Emmanuel Carrere
• We Sinners, Hanna Pylvainen
• How Should a Person Be?, Sheila Heti
• Blame, Michelle Huneven
• Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World, Sabina Berman
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver
• One Last Thing Before I Go, Jonathan Tropper
• Empire Falls, Richard Russo
• Heading Out to Wonderful, Robert Goolrick
• Venus Drive: Stories, Sam Lipsyte
• The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson
• Caribou Island, David Vann
• Faith, Jennifer Haigh
• Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
• Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
• This Beautiful Life, Helen Schulman
• I See You Everywhere, Julia Glass
• The Weird Sisters, Eleanor Brown
• The Lover’s Dictionary, David Levithan
• Turn of Mind, Alice LaPlante
• The Starboard Sea, Amber Dermont
• The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
• Half-Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan
• Maine, Courtney J. Sullivan
• Faithful Place, Tana French
• My Korean Deli, Ben Ryder Howe
• Coral Glynn, Peter Cameron
• The Guardians, Sarah Manguso
• By Blood, Ellen Ullman
• Big Girl Small, Rachel deWoskin
• Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg
• The Man from Primrose Lane, James Renner
• The Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster
• The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
• Skippy Dies, Paul Murray
• Girlchild, Tupelo Hassman
• The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, Siri Hustvedt
• In the Woods, Tana French
• The Intimates, Ralph Sassone
• What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• You Deserve Nothing, Alexander Maksik
• Everything You Know, Zoe Heller
• The Submission, Amy Waldman
• Smut, Alan Bennett
• The Hypnotist, Lars Kepler
• By Nightfall, Michael Cunningham

thelifeguardlibrarian:

Oh, I didn’t tell you my little sister got me the coolest gift ever:

Litographs creates posters (and as of January, tshirts!) from the full text of classic books. Above is the entire text of Leaves of Grass, coming soon to a wall in my apartment.

Thanks, Ker.

Note to self.

alandcalledonalee:

I need this.

Pepperidge Farm cake with M&Ms coming right up.

(Source: hanniballecters)

"Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up. Then, as we get older, we realize that a world in which we’re only thinking about ourselves and not thinking about anybody else, in which we’re considering the entire project of developing ourselves as more important than our relationships to other people and making sure that everybody else has opportunity – that that’s a pretty narrow vision."

President Obama, in an interview with Rolling Stone, when asked about Paul Ryan’s “obsession” with Rand. source (via shortformblog)

Maybe Mr. Ryan will stop by The Baffler’s Ayn Rand: The Game Show on Nov. 27th and show us all how it’s done. Hopefully, he won’t be VP or very busy. 

-Aaron

(via housingworksbookstore)

buzzfeed:

These are homemade pumpkin pie pop tarts with maple glaze and they are amazing.

mcnallyjackson:

Sure Hilary Mantel, pretty impressive. But tell me this: were you ever the first runner-up in your eighth grade student body government vice presidential election?

Nope, didn’t think so.

<3

Appropriate for today.

(Source: Spotify)

Niagara Falls (Taken with Instagram)

bkfst:

(via Pumpkin Pie French Toast Recipe | Savour Fare)

traviswaagner:

Truth (Taken with Instagram)