2012 Reading List

THE BEST BOOKS I READ IN 2012

 


TOP PICKS!
The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson (NON-FICTION)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Mureil Barbery (FICTION)

HONORABLE MENTION!



Bossypants - Tina Fey (NON-FICTION)
Too Big to Fail - Andrew Ross Sorkin (NON-FICTION)
Is Marriage for White People? - Ralph Richard Banks (NON-FICTION)
Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison (FICTION)
La Casa de los Espíritus - Isabel Allende (FICTION)
Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo (FICTION)




MORE AWARDS
BEST ENDING!
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O’Farrell



LONGEST OVERDUE READ!
The Prophet - Khalil Gibran



THE 47th BEST VAMPIRE BOOK EVER!
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova



COMPLETE 2012 READING LIST

NON-FICTION

 Autobiographies, Biographies, Memoirs & Travel

  • Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris (2000)
  • La Revolución Perdida: Memorias III - Ernesto Cardenal (2005)*
  • Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff - Rosemary Mahoney (2007)
  • Malcom X: A Life of Reinvention - Manning Marable (2011)
  • Bossypants - Tina Fey (2011)
  • Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson (2011)
  • Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef - Gabrielle Hamilton (2011)


 Economics, Politics & Sociology

  • Greaseless: How to Thrive Without Bribes in Developing Countries - Loretta Graziano Breuning (2004)
  • Cuentos Chinos - Andres Oppenheimer (2005)*
  • Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis—and Themselves - Andrew Ross Sorkin (2009)
  • Africa United: Soccer, Passion, Politics and the First World Cup in Africa - Steve Bloomfield (2010)
  • Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone - Ralph Richard Banks (2011)
  • Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World - Michael Lewis (2011)
  • Rebuild the Dream - Van Jones (2012)
  • The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation About America - Tom Brokaw (2012)



 History, Science & Sociology
  • Noticia de un Secuestro - Gabriel García Márquez (1991)*
  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt (1994)
  • The Tuskegee Syphilis Study - Fred D. Gray (1998)
  • Creation: Darwin, His Daughter & Human Evolution - Randal Keynes (2001)
  • 1776 - David McCullough (2005)
  • Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell (2005)
  • Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World’s Fastest Human Being - Todd Balf (2008)
  • The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America - Timothy Egan (2009)
  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson (2010)
  • Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever - Will Hermes (2011)
  • The Next IQ: The Next Level of Intelligence for 21st Century Leaders - Arin N. Reeves (2012)


 FICTION

Modern American Fiction
  • Galápagos - Kurt Vonnegut (1985)
  • Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison (1992)
  • Jazz - Toni Morrison (1992)
  • Parable of the Talents (Earthseed #2) - Octavia E. Butler (1998)
  • The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova (2003)
  • Drop City - T.C. Boyle (2003)
  • Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo (2007)
  • Zone One - Colson Whitehead (2011)


Modern International Fiction
  • La Casa Verde (The Green House) - Mario Vargas Llosa (1965)*
  • La Casa de los Espíritus (The House of the Spirits) - Isabel Allende (1982)*
  • The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (1992)
  • The Appointment - Herta Müller (1997)
  • An Equal Music - Vikram Seth (1999)
  • The Dark Room - Rachel Seiffert (2001)
  • The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer (2002)
  • Star of the Sea - Joseph O’Conner (2003)
  • El Síndrome de Ulises (The Ulysses Syndrome) - Santiago Gamboa (2005)*
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery (2006)
  • The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O’Farrell (2006)


Classics
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Williams Shakespeare (1623)
  • Candide - Voltaire (1758)
  • A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (1859)
  • The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1868)
  • The Prophet - Khalil Gibran (1923)
  • The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (1940)

*Read the original Spanish language text

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