What DID Susan read last year?

Happy New Year, Readers!  Please forgive the radio silence of late.  I sincerely hope you all had wonderful holiday seasons.  This seems like an ideal time to thank you all for coming around.  I'm looking forward to another good year together!

Wow, December was a weak blogging month for me, but I'm giving myself a pass.  It was a prolific year, and frankly, there's been a lot of stuff going on on my end--and probably yours too.  It's that kind of month.  Plus, while I haven't been posting them to the blog--yet--I've been making a concerted effort to catch up on review writing.  So, hopefully, I'll get back with the program as we enter the new year.

So, about the books...  In 2010, I read 78 or 79 books, and it was a record year for me.  100 books felt like an unobtainable goal.  Therefore, I'm at a loss to explain this, but I read nearly 150 books this year!  I have 148 listed right now, but to be honest, I didn't really keep a faithful list this year, and those are the books I was able to confirm having read after looking at what's in my Kindle and iPod,  what I've reviewed, and what I can remember.  I'm surely missing a few, and perhaps I'll add them later.  This list is plenty long enough.

So, for those who are incurably curious, here's the complete list:

1. The Vault – Boyd Morrison
2. Aftertime – Sophie Littlefield
3. This is Where I Leave You – Jonathan Tropper
4. One of Our Thursday’s is Missing – Jasper Fforde
5. The Red Garden – Alice Hoffman
6. I Think I Love You – Alison Pearson
7. Faking Life – Jason Pinter
8. Gideon’s Sword – Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
9. Swamplandia! – Karen Russell
10. Blogging for Dummies – Susannah Gardner & Shane Birley
11. A Discovery of Witches – Deborah Harkness
12. Pandemonium – Warren Fahy
13. The Weird Sisters – Eleanor Brown
14. Storm Front – Jim Butcher
15. The Tiger’s Wife – Tea Obreht
16. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
17. Spiral – Paul McEuen
18. The Peach Keeper – Sarah Addison Allen
19. Devil’s Plaything – Matt Richtel
20. The Devil Colony – James Rollins
21. The Devil’s Elixir – Raymond Khoury
22. Guilt by Association – Marcia Clark
23. The Ninth Wife – Amy Stolls
24. The Tragedy of Arthur – Arthur Phillips
25. A Tale of Two Castles – Gail Carson Levine
26. The
    Inner Circle
    – Brad Meltzer
27. The Sixth Man – David Baldacci
28. The Girl in the Garden – Kamala Nair
29. Skipped Parts – Tim Sandlin
30. Long Gone – Alafair Burke
31. The Door to Lost Pages – Claude Lalumiere
32. The School of Night – Louis Bayard
33. Bossypants – Tina Fey
34. The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes – Marcus Sakey
35. Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid – Wendy Williams
36. Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx – James Rollins
37. A Little Bit Wicked – Kristen Chenoweth
38. Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann
39. Arcadia: The Complete
40. Love You More – Lisa Gardiner
41. Sweet Jiminy – Kristin Gore
42. I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive – Steve Earle
43. Bellwether – Connie Willis
44. The Informationist – Taylor Stevens
45. Skinny – Diana Spechler
46. Mr. Poppers Penguins – Richard & Florence Atwater
47. The Uncertain Places – Lisa Goldstein
48. Blood of the Reich – William Dietrich
49. The Map of Time – Felix J. Palma
50. State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
51. The Woodcutter – Reginald Hill
52. Before I Go to Sleep – S. J. Watson
53. A Bad Day For Scandal – Sophie Littlefield
54. The Fates Will Find Their Way – Hannah Pittard
55. Still Missing – Chevy Stevens
56. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami
57. Charlie All Night – Jennifer Cruisie
58. Then Came You – Jennifer Weiner
59. Rebirth – Sophie Littlefield
60. Killing Kate – Julie Kramer
61. Jaws – Peter Benchley
62. The Sherlockian – Graham Moore
63. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
64. You’re Next – Gregg Hurwitz
65. The Forgotten Waltz – Anne Enright
66. The Wise Man’s Fear – Patrick Rothfuss
67. 22 Britannia Road
    – Amanda Hodgkinson
68. The Stranger’s Child – Alan Hollinghurst
69. Mr. Fox – Helen Oyeyemi
70. Zone One – Colson Whitehead
71. The Litigators – John Grisham
72. Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl
73. There But For The – Ali Smith
74. Micro – Michael Crichton & Richard Preston
75. Native Tongue – Carl Hiaasen
76. The Prague Cemetery – Umberto Eco
77. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
78. A Thousand Lives – Julia Scheeres
79. Too Much Stuff – Don Bruns
80. Why Read Moby Dick – Nathaniel Philbrick
81. 11/22/63 – Stephen King
82. 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami
83. When She Woke – Hillary Jordan
84. Countdown – Mira Grant
85. Replay – Ken Grimwood
86. I’ve Got Your Number – Sophie Kinsella
87. City of Thieves – David Benioff
88. Lightning Rods – Helen DeWitt
89. 1222 – Ann Holt
90. The Time in Between – Maria Duenas
91. Look, I Made a Hat – Stephen Sondheim
92. The Family Fang – Kevin Wilson
93. I Married You For Happiness – Lily Tuck
94. The Revisionists – Thomas Mullen
95. Death Match – Lincoln Child
96. The Callahan Chronicles – Spider Robinson
97. The Invention of Hugo Cabret –Brian Selznick
98. The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
99. Matched – Ali Condie
100. Tension City – Jim Lehrer
101. The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
102. Reamde – Neal Stephenson
103. The Visible Man – Chuck Klosterman
104. The Dovekeepers – Alice Hoffman
105. Heft – Liz Moore
106. The Language of Flowers – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
107. Eyes Wide Open – Andrew Gross
108. Sanctus – Simon Toyne
109. Sacre Bleu – Christopher Moore
110. Why We Broke Up – Daniel Handler
111. Sister – Rosamund Lipton
112. Darkness, My Old Friend – Lisa Unger
113. Only Time Will Tell – Jeffrey Archer
114. The Black Stiletto – Raymond Benson
115. Birds of Paradise – Diana Abu-Jaber
116. The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
117. The Submission – Amy Waldman
118. One Day – David Nicholls
119. The Leftovers – Tom Perotta
120. The Magician King – Lev Grossman
121. The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
122. Cold Vengeance – Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
123. The Winters in Bloom – Lisa Tucker
124. The Griff – Christopher Moore
125. Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
126. Machine Man – Max Barry
127. LA Mental – Neil McMahon
128. Pigeon English – Stephen Kelman
129. The Twelfth Enchantment – David Liss
130. Bed – David Whitehouse
131. Girls in White Dresses – Jennifer Close
132. Luminarium – Alex Shakar
133. Jamrach’s Menagerie – Carole Birch
134. Crossed – Ali Condie
135. Beauty Queens – Libba Bray
136. The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
137. Fever Dream – Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
138. The Accident – Linwood Barclay
139. Dominance – Will Lavender
140. Sleeping Beauty – Elle Lothlorien
141. The Gunslinger – Stephen King
142. 420 Characters – Lou Beach
143. We the Animals – Justin Torres
144. The Demi-Monde: Winter – Rod Rees
145. Smut: Stories – Alan Bennett
146. Island of Wings – Karin Altenberg
147. From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant – Alex Gilvarry
148. The Whisperer – Donato Carrisi

Over 100 of the books above were published in 2011, but there is a generous smattering of 2012 titles in the list as well.  And, yes, I am still working to catch up on the reviews.

Plus, I'll finally be posting my 2011 top 10 list next.  Meanwhile, 2012 is already off to a great reading start!