Susanne_53's 75 Books Challenge for 2012

I've come to this group rather late in the year but I do read a lot. Now I've just got to learn how to post my list.

Nice to see another Australian in the group! (I'm a Kiwi - wondered who was posting in the middle of the US night...) Looking forward to seeing what you've been reading.

T


August
1. Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
2. Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
3. The Blue Edge of Midnight Jonathon King
4. The Greatest Knight Elizabeth Chadwick
5. Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
6. A Visible Darkness Jonathon King
7. The Cleaner Paul Cleave
8. Catalyst Anne McCaffrey
9. Wool Omnibus Edition Hugh Howey
10. The Light Between Oceans M L Stedman
11. The Chaperone Laura Moriarty
12. Shadow Men Jonathon King
13. Catacombs Anne McCaffrey
14. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson

September
15. Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
16. Southern Gods John Horner Jacobs
17. A Killer Plot Ellery Adams
18. The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham
19. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
20. The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham
21. The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
22. The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey
23. Watching the Dark by Peter Robinson
24. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

October
25. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
26. 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
27. The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
28. The Shining by Stephen King
29. A Killing Night by Jonathon King
30. The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne
31. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
32. The Killing Hour by Paul Cleave
33. The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid

November
34. To Ride Hell's Chasm by Janny Wurts
35. Stay Close by Harlan Coben
36. A Matter of Magic by Patricia C Wrede
37. Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
38. The Wolf's Hour by Robert R McCammon
39. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
40. Floating Staircase by Ronald Malfi

December
41. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
42. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
43. Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
44. The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon

Currently Reading

John Saturnall's Feast by Lawrence Norfolk

Hi Cushla, I see we have some books in common.

Welcome! Never too late to start.

Thanks for the welcome. This seems like a nice group. I'm loving seeing what others are reading.

Welcome to the group! It is perfectly permissible to put up all the books you remember reading this year and count them too, if you want to.

Welcome to the group. Some nice reading you have done. Oryx and Crake is on my planned reading list. Curious to hear you thoughts on it.

Just finished Oryx and Crake and I really enjoyed it. I'm thinking this might mean there's something seriously wrong with me because the majority of reviews seem to dwell on how disturbing and depressing the story is. It is disturbing from the point of view that it is about human nature, man's inhumanity to man, and how we're busily wrecking the planet, but these are things I'm confronted with every day in the news.

I thought Jimmy's story was engrossing and am looking forward to reading the next installment.

I enjoyed Oryx and Crake too - still haven't read the other one.

Did you enjoy the Mantels back in August?

Great to hear something positive - The books are on my reading list for next month :)

Oh, I see several familiar titles in your October reading: I enjoyed Brick Lane a lot several years back, and Orlando I read many many years ago - my only Woolf apart from A room of one's own and I didn't know what to expect but remember being fascinated by that. I haven't read the latest Louise Penny yet - waiting for it to be available here in used paperback, which is how I get most of my books.