Obligatory List of Books Read for 2012

Hello Fearless Readers! It's been awhile since my last blog post. I owe you the obligatory "List of Books I read last year." The list is below, and she is mighty. This is the largest number of books I have probably EVAR read in a single year (108 - but who's counting?), except for during school years, when I had daily access to a library 9 months out of the year (pre-High School - when yes, there was a library, but in California, the library is a good place to get beat up.) As usual, there were many re-reads, and those are in grey. I'm proud to have listed some that I only read in beta form. :) I was unsure at first if I should just call them "beta" - but I ended up putting "beta" for the ones that are (so far) unpublished.

As usual, I look through this list, and I can't even remember reading some of them. Hopefully, that won't happen so often, now that I'm keeping a book journal. And even if I do forget a book, I can go back in and look it up in the journal! It's fun to look over the list and remember the ones that really touched me. The ones I had to close and then think about. The ones that made me snap the book shut and then shake my fist at the heavens, wishing I could have the NEXT ONE ALREADY! The ones I wish I would have quit before the end. I did quit on two books this year... but there are a few on this list that shouldn't be here... (I did not list the DNF's, as I do not wish to embarrass anyone living or dead.) 

Over the next few days I'll be blogging about a couple of challenges I plan on doing this year. I felt the need to challenge myself beyond the four novels I am editing and the one I am still writing. Yeah. :) So now, for the list: 

1. Let the Right One In - John Lingqvist
2. Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
3. Lady Audley’s Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
4. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
5. The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
6. A Dark Night’s Work - Elizabeth Gaskell
7. Varney the Vampire - James Malcom Rymer
8. Don’t Shoot the Messenger - Regan Summers
9. -beta read for someone-
10. Allison Hewett’s Trapped - Madelaine Roux
11. The Scarlett Plague - Jack London
12. Banshee Charmer - Tiffany Allee
13. Viking Sacrifice - Julia Knight
14. The Prestige - Christopher Priest
15. The Wilder Life - Wendy McClure
16.  On the banks of Plum Creek - Laura Ingalls Wilder
17.  By the Shores of Silver Lake - Laura Ingalls Wilder
18.  The Long Winter - Laura Ingalls Wilder
19.  Little Town on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
20.  These Happy Golden Years - Laura Ingalls Wilder
21.  Blackout - Connie Willis
22.  The Greater Inclination - Edith Wharton
23.  A Local Habitation - Seanan McGuire
24.  An Artificial Night - Seanan McGuire
25.  Snowflower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
26.  Devil’s Kiss - Zoe Archer
27.  Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
28.  White Horse - Alex Adams
29.  Late Eclipses - Seanan McGuire
30.  One Salt Sea - Seanan McGuire
31.  Changeless - Gail Carriger
32.  Blameless - Gail Carriger
33.  Soulless - Gail Carriger
34.  Heartless - Gail Carriger
35.  All Clear - Connie Willis
36.  Grange House - Sarah Blake
37.  Return to Neverend - JM Sloderbeck
38.  Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
39.  Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
40.  Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
41.  Dustin Time - June Kramin
42.  Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
43.  Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
44.  Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carrol
45.  Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
46.  Unholy Ghosts - Stacia Kane
47.  Hunters Find - June Kramin
48.  Hunger Games...again
49.  Thornyhold - Mary Stewart
50.  9 Coaches Waiting - Mary Stewart
51.  Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
52.  Beta - no can tell you! Unpublished secret business
53.  Unholy Magic -Stacia Kane
54.  City of Ghosts - Stacia Kane
55.  Home - Stacia Kane
56.  Hell House - Richard Matheson
57.  I am Legend - Richard Matheson
58.  The Haunting of Hill House- Shirley Jackson
59.  Monday or Tuesday - Virginia Wolf
60.  Color Out of Space - HP Lovecraft
61.  Dreaming in the Witch House- HP Lovecraft
62.  Running in the Dark - Regan Summers
63.  The 13th Tale- Diane Setterfield
64.  To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
65.  The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
66. The House of the Vampire - George Vierck
67.  The Familiar - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
68.  This Book Does Not Exist - Mike Scheider
69.  The Gunslinger - Stephen King
70.  Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
71. The Waste Lands - Stephen King
72.  Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
73. Wind Through the Keyhole - Stephen King
74.  Wolves of the Calla - Stephen King
75.  Song of Susanna - Stephen King
76.  Dark Tower - Stephen King
77.  Dog Of War - Heathor Gregson
78.  Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi
79.  Succubus Lost - Tiffany Allee
80.  Blades of the Rose - Zoe Archer
81.  19 Dragons - SM Reine
82.  Phoenix Rising - Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris
83.  Haunting Violet - Alexandra Harvey
84.  Vicious Circle - Mike Carey
85.  Venetia - Georgette Heyer
86.  Once Prey - Twice Forsaken - Tiffany Allee
87.  Quiet Gentleman - Georgette Heyer
88.  Bath Tangle - Georgette Heyer
89.  Frederica - Georgette Heyer
90.  Regency Buck - Georgette Heyer
91.  A Lady of Quality - Georgette Heyer
92.  The Gamester - Elizabeth Chater
93.  A Place for Alfreda - Elizabeth Chater 
94.  Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
95.  Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
96.  Emma - Jane Austen
97.  Persuasion
98.  The Red Necklace - Sally Gardner
99.  Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
100.  Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
101.  Vixen - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
102.  Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
103.  Cell - Stephen King
104.  Nachsturm Castle - Emily CA Snyder
105.  Dragonwyck - Anya Seton
106.  Romance of the Forest - Anne Radcliffe
107.  We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Schriver
108.  The Bride of Lannermoor - Sir Walter Scott