2011 Favorite Books

Most recent books at the top.

1. Elements of Fiction: Description by Monica Wood
2. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
3. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
4. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
5. Pieces for the Left Hand by J. Robert Lennon
6. Persuasion by Jane Austin
7. A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald
8. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
9. The Religion by Tim Willocks
10. Evelina by Frances Burney
11. Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody
12. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
13. Freud’s Blind Spot: 23 Original Essays on Cherished, Estranged, Lost, Hurtful, Hopeful, Complicated Siblings Edited by Elisa Albert
14. The Indie Author Guide: Self-Publishing Strategies Anyone Can Use by April L. Hamilton
15. Pamela by Samuel Richardson
16. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
17. Roxana by Daniel Defoe
18. The Reformed Coquet by Mary Davys
19. Fantomina by Eliza Haywood
20. The Wife’s Resentment by Delaviere Manley
21. Sophia by Charlotte Lennox
22. Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell
23. The Fair Jilt by Aphra Behn
24. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
25. The Green Mile by Stephen King
26. The Rest of the Robots by Isaac Asimov
27. In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honore
28. Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
29. Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
30. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America by Randall Balmer
31. Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
32. Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing by Dean Wesley Smith
33. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson
34. Elements of Fiction: Plot by Ansen Dibell
35. Disarming the Narcissist by Wendy T. Behary
36. Forgive for Good by Dr. Fred Luskin
37. Deer Hunting With Jesus by Joe Bageant
38. The Shining by Stephen King
39. The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker
40. Write Like the Masters: Emulating the best of Hemmingway, Faulkner, Salinger and Others by William Cane
41. Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: the quirky and lost art of diagramming sentences by Kitty Burns Florey
42. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
43. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
44. Getting What Your Came For: The Smart Student’s Guide to Earning a Master’s or Ph.D. by Rober L. Peters, Ph.D.
45. The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
46. The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty
47. Come on in! New Poems by Charles Bukowski
48. Snowcrash by Niel Stephenson
49. The Art of Fiction by John Gardner

Books Read in 2012