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Publishing home READING 2012 Attached is a list of the books I read in 2012.
Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I particularly
like. I also try to keep track of how many books of a particular
kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country and century (Eng.
19th, etc.), I read each year. For the complete list of my reading
since 1958, see
http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html Richard Seltzer seltzer@seltzerbooks.com January
1 Chaucer 2 Troilus and
Cressida (trans. by Morrison) ENGLISH 14th 1 POETRY 1 2 Anonymous 1 Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight (trans. by Borroff) ENGLISH 14th 2 POETRY 2 3 Anonymous 2 Gilgamesh (trans.
Ferry) SUMERIAN BC 1 POETRY 3 4 Umberto Eco 9 The Prague
Cemetery ITALIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 1 5 Philippe Labro 1 ***Le Petit Garcon (en
francais) FRENCH 20th 1 NOVEL 2 6 William Kennedy 6 The Flaming
Corsage AMERICAN 20th 1 NOVEL 3 7 William James 8 **The Will to
Believe AMERICAN 19th 1 PHILOSOPHY 1 8 Rene Goscinny 1 *Le Petit Nicolas (en
francais) French 20th 2 NOVEL 4 9 Sir Walter Scott 7 Waverley volume 1
ENGLISH 19th 1 NOVEL 5 10 Sir Walter Scott 8 Waverley volume 2
ENGLISH 19th 2 NOVEL 6
February
11 Sir Walter Scott Guy
Mannering (second time) ENGLISH 19th 3 NOVEL 7 12 Sir Walter Scott 9 The Antiquary
ENGLISH 19th 4 NOVEL 8 13 Sir Walter Scott 10 The Black Dwarf
ENGLISH 19th 5 NOVEL 9 14 Sir Walter Scott 11 Legend of Montrose
ENGLISH 19th 6 NOVEL 10 15 Matthew Pearl 4 **The
Technologists AMERICAN 21st 1 NOVEL 11
March
16 Eleni Gage 1 Other Waters AMERICAN 21st
2 NOVEL 12 17 Stephen Hawking 2 **The Grand Design
BRITISH 21st 1 SCIENCE 1 18 Suzanne Collins 1 The Hunger Games
AMERICAN 21st 3 NOVEL 13 19 Suzanne Collins 2 Catching Fire AMERICAN
21st 4 NOVEL 14 20 Suzanne Collins 3 Mockingjay AMERICAN
21st 5 NOVEL 15 21 Roberta Kalechofsky 7 K'tia: a
Savoior of the Jewish People AMERICAN 21st 6 SHORT STORIES 1
April
22 Leslie Daniels 1 Cleaning
Nabokov's House AMERICAN 21st 7 NOVEL 16 23 P. D. James 7 Death Comes to
Pemberley BRITISH 21st 2 NOVEL 17 24 Nancy Goldstone 1 Four Queens: The
Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe AMERICAN 21st 7 HISTORY 1 25 Harry Mulisch 1 ***The Discovery of
Heaven DUTCH 20th 1 NOVEL 18 26 Alexander McCall Smith 16 ***The Limpopo
Academy of Private Detection BOTSWANA 21st 1 NOVEL 19
May
27 Sir Walter Scott 12 The Bride of
Lammermoor BRITISH 19th7 NOVEL 20 28 E. L. James 1 Fifty Shades of Grey
AMERICAN 21st 8 NOVEL 21 29 E. L. James 2 Fifty Shades Darker
AMERICAN 21st 9 NOVEL 22 30 E. L. James 3 Fifty Shades Freed
AMERICAN 21st 10 NOVEL 23
June
31 Robert Covelli 1 Black Sheep AMERICAN
21st 11 NOVEL 24 32 Luis Albero Urrea 1
***Hummingbird's Daughter AMERICAN 21st 12 NOVEL 25 33 Chuck Klosterman 1 *The Visible Man
AMERICAN 21st 13 NOVEL 26 34 David Bell 1 *Cemetery Girl AMERICAN
21st 14 NOVEL 27 35 Selden Edwards 1 ***The Little
Book AMERICAN 21st 15 NOVEL 28 36 Felix Palma 1 **The Map of Time SPANISH
21xt 1 NOVEL 29
July
37 Michio Kaku 2 ***Physics of the Future
AMERICAN 21st 16 SCIENCE 1 38 Harry Mulisch 2 *****The Assault DUTCH
20th 2 NOVEL 30 39 Byron 3 Childe Harold's Pilgraimage
(second time) BRITISH 19th 8 POETRY 1 40 Steve Erickson 10 ***These Dreams
of You AMERICAN 21st 17 NOVEL 31 41 Daniel Kahneman 1 ****Thinking Fast and
Slow AMERICAN 21st 18 SCIENCE 2 42 Lev Grossman 1 The Magicians
AMERICAN 21st 19 NOVEL 32 43 William Gaddis 3 ****JR
AMERICAN 20th 2 NOVEL 33 44 George Sand 2 ***La Mare au Diable (en
francais) FRENCH 19th 1 NOVEL 34 45 George Sand 3 **Francois le Champi (en
francais) FRENCH 19th 2 NOVEL 35 46 William Kennedy 7 ****Very Old Bones
AMERICAN 21st 20 NOVEL 36 47 William Kennedy 8 ***Cahngo's Beads and
Two-Tone Shoes AMERICAN 21st 21 NOVEL 37 48 Xenophon 3 An Ephesian Tale
GREEK BC 1 NOVEL 38 49 Sir Walter Scott 13 Count Robert
of Paris BRITISH 19th 9 NOVEL 39
August
50 Deborah Harkness 1 A Discovery of
Witches AMERICAN 21st 21 NOVEL 40 51 Nora Ephron 1 I Feel Bad About My Neck
AMERICAN 21st 22 ESSAYS 1 52 Carolyn See 1 [Terrible] Golden Days
AMERICAN 20th 3 NOVEL 41 53 Sophie Hannah 1 [Terrible] The Wrong
Mother AMERICAN 21st 23 NOVEL 42 54 Anatole France 3 Penguin Island FRENCH
20th 3 NOVEL 43
September
55 Deborah Harkness 2 Shadow of Night
AMERICAN 21st 24 NOVEL 44 56 Thomas Mann 4 **Buddenbrooks (in
English) GERMAN 20th 1 NOVEL 45 57 Mitch Albom 2 **The Time Keeper AMERICAN
21st 25 NOVEL 46 58 Stephen King 12 *****11/22/63 AMERICAN
21st 26 NOVEL 47 59 Jan-Philipp Sendker 1 *****The Art of
Hearing Heartbeats GERMAN 21st 1 NOVEL 48 60 Zadie Smith 4 NW BRITISH
21st 3 NOVEL 49
October
61 J.K. Rowling 8 *****The Casual Vacancy
BRITISH 21st 4 NOVEL 50 62 Joshua Foer 1 *****Moonwalking with
Einstein AMERICAN 21st 27 SCIENCE 3 63 Arthur Koestler *****The
Sleepwalkers HUNGARIAN 20th 1 SCIENCE 4 64 Bob Seltzer 1 ****The Medusa Blogs (in
manuscript) AMERICAN 21st 28 NOVEL 51
November
65 Tom Wolfe 3 **Back to Blood AMERICAN
21st 29 NOVEL 51
December [Barbara died December 4, 7:30 PM]
66 Joan Didion 2 ***The Year of Magical
Thinking AMERICAN 21st 30 ESSAY 2 67 C. S. Lewis 6 A Grief Observed
BRITISH 20th 1 ESSAY 3
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