Books Read in 2012

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January

1. The Beautiful and the Damned, by F Scott Fitzgerald

2. The Walking Dead, Volume 13: Too Far Gone, by Robert Kirkman

3. The Walking Dead, Volume 14: No Way Out, by Robert Kirkman

4. Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami

5. Paris Then and Now, by Peter Cain

6. Negotiating with the Dead, by Margaret Atwood

7. Duino Elegies, by Rainer Maria Rilke

8. Metamorphosis and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka

9. Boredom Fighters, edited by Paola Poletto

10. The Cat’s Table, by Michael Ondaatje

11. The Walking Dead, Volume 15: We Find Ourselves, by Robert Kirkman

12. Open City, by Teju Cole

13. The Girl on the Escalator, by Jim Nason

February

14. Kenk, by Richard Poplak

15. Saltations, by Jennifer Still

16. The Fists of Remembering, by Jim Nason

17. The Prisoner of Tehran, by Maria Nemat

18. Coney Island of the Mind, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

19. Faces on Places, by Terry Murray

20. Glimpse, by George Murray

21. The Tiger, by John Vaillant

22. On a Cold Road, by Dave Bidini

March

23. The Game, by Ken Dryden

24. The Death-Ray, by Daniel Clowes

25. The Magicians, by Lev Grossman

26 The Magician King, by Lev Grossman

27. The Book of Longing, by Leonard Cohen

28. All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy

29. Treat Me Like Dirt, by Liz Worth

30. Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

31. Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins

32. Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins

33. Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse

34. Letters on Cezanne, by Rainer Maria Rilke

35. The Crossing, by Cormac McCarthy

April

36. Attack of the Copula Spiders, by Douglas Glover

37. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, by Haruki Murakami

38. Echo Gods and Silent Mountains, by Patrick Woodcock

39. Attemptations, by Kim Clark

40. Ripley Under Water, by Patricia Highsmith

41. Virginia Wolf, by Kyo Maclear

42. The Best Canadian Essays 2009, edited by Alex Boyd

43. The Captain Poetry Poems, by bp Nichol

44. Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke

45. Running in Prospect Cemetery, by Susan Glickman

46. Municipal Mind, by Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

47. Forge, by Jan Zwicky

48. Girls Fall Down, by Maggie Helwig

49. You Exist. Details Follow., by Stuart Ross

- Lives Like Loaded Guns, by Lyndall Gordon (abandoned)

May

50. Twenty-Seventh City, by Jonathan Franzen

51. Kiki de Montparnasse, by José-Louis Bocquet

52. The Love Monster, by Missy Marston

53. George Fetherling and His Work, edited by Linda Rogers

54. Paint it Black, by Voltaire

55. Preserving Basics, by Jody Vassallo

56. Survival, by Margaret Atwood