Reading List 2012

Here's what I've been reading in 2012. As usual, an asterix means the book was a reread. I got a Kindle for Christmas in 2011, so this year I'm going to note which books were ebooks - I'll mark them with an (e). The plan, at first, is to use the Kindle to catch up on my classics, since I'm generally more of a modern lit person, and there are so many free out-of-copyright titles for download from Amazon. First up is Middlemarch, but I suspect it'll take me ages - who knew it was so long?? In the meantime:

February 
20. Care of Wooden Floors, Will Wiles. Odd, funny novel.
19. Somewhere Else, Or Even Here, AJ Ashworth. Fantastic, sad, beautiful short stories.
18. Ten Stories About Smoking, Stuart Evers. Entertaining stories thematically linked by, well, smoking.
17. (e) The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Not sure this counts as a whole book?
16. (e) The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte. Not bad, though the epistolary format was daft.
15. An Invisible Sign Of My Own, Aimee Bender. Waaaay too twee for me.


January
14. Everything's Fine, Socrates Adams. Reminded me of Gordon Lish's work. Brilliant.
13. (e) Jeff In Venice, Death in Varanasi, Geoff Dyer. My first Dyer - liked it a lot.
12. Dark Eden, Chris Beckett. SF novel. Not bad.
11. Vox, Nicholson Baker. Literary phone sex. Baker is an odd chap!
10. U & I, Nicholson Baker. Baker's paean to Updike. Funny.
9. (e) Present At A Hanging, Ambrose Bierce. Short stories. Not bad.
8. (e) Middlemarch, George Eliot. A monster, but liked once I got stuck in.
7. A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore. A brutally sad novel - really excellent.
6. The Mezzanine, Nicholson Baker. Very funny meandering thoughts of an office worker.
5. Haggadah, ed. Jonathan Safran Foer. Jewish text for the Passover Seder. Poetic. Interesting.
4. This Isn't The Sort of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You, Jon McGregor. Interesting story collection.
3. Room Temperature, Nicholson Baker. A man's thoughts wander while he's feeding his baby. Lovely.
2. Cadenza 16, ed. Zoe King. Ditto (though I preferred number19.)
1. Cadenza 19, ed. Zoe King. Cadenza doesn't exist any more, but I got a couple of copies from Zoe back in 2009. Nice short set of poems and stories.