Statistics Overview
Total Books Read: 135
Fiction: 99
Non-Fiction: 36
Male/Female Authors: 86/46
Old Authors: 4
Library Books: 82
Kindle Books: 45
Audiobooks: 1
Graphic Novels: 26
Classics: 9
Total Pages Read: ~29,000
Unfinished Books: 71
Books Published in 2012: 23
Favorites by Genre
Chick Lit: I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
Classic: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Science Fiction: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Dystopian: Divergent by Veronica Roth
Post-Apocalyptic: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Vampire: Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris (the only one I read)
Zombie: Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Young Adult: Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Children’s: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Graphic Novel: Fables by Bill Willingham
Series: Fables by Bill Willingham
Thriller: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Autobiography: Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg
Spiritual: Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
Romance: My Familiar Stranger by Victoria Danann
Best sequel: Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Historical Fiction: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Time travel: Overseas by Beatriz Williams
Book by a celebrity: Everything About Me is Fake…and I’m Perfect by Janice Dickinson
Characters and Relationships
Most memorable male character(s): Mark Spitz from Zone One by Colson Whitehead/Eli Sisters from The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
Most memorable female character: Valancy from The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
Best romantic relationship: Elora and Ram in My Familar Stranger by Victoria Danann
Best time travel romance: Kate and Julian in Overseas by Beatriz Williams
Favorite relationship between brothers: Eli and Charlie Sisters in The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
Favorite brother/sister relationship: Jenny and Jamie in Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Favorite father/son relationship: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best friendship: Irene and Alex the parrot in Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg
Best female friendship: The girls in Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Authors
Favorite author(s) discovered in 2012 (never heard of before): Karen Thompson Walker, Madeline Miller, John Wyndham, Beatriz Williams, Drew Magary
Favorite author(s) I finally read in 2012: Daphne du Maurier and Thrity Umrigar
Categories
Saddest book: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Most shocking ending: Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Most interesting world or setting: The Postmortal by Drew Magary
Best adventure story: Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier
Most gruesome scenes: The Road by Cormac McCarthy/The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
Book that will cast a spell on you: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Book(s) that will mess with your head: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn/The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Best child narrator: Julia in The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Book I wish more people read: The Postmortal by Drew Magary
Book you thought you’d love more but didn’t: The Curfew by Jesse Ball
Book(s) you recommended to people most in 2012: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt/The Postmortal by Drew Magary
Best series you discovered in 2012: Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan, Fables by Bill Willingham, Divergent by Veronica Roth
Best book that was out of your comfort zone or was a new genre for you: Divergent series by Veronica Roth
Most thrilling, unputdownable book: The Postmortal by Drew Magary
Book you read in 2012 that you’re most likely to re-read next year: Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
Shortest book: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (97 pages)
Longest book: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (627 pages)
Book that had a scene in it that had you reeling and dying to talk to somebody about it: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Book(s) that had the greatest impact on you: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer/The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto
Book you can’t believe you waited until 2012 to finally read: Animal Farm by George Orwell
Book Blogging Achievements
Bought my own domain
Switched my blog to self-hosted
Set up social media accounts connected to my blog
Participated in Armchair BEA
Participated in my first read-a-thons
Participated in the Outlander readalong
Participated in the Literary Giveaway Blog Hop (twice)
Gave away 5 books
Won 1 book
Made my first video posts and reviews
Participated in Bout of Books (twice)
Blogging and Reading Goals for 2013
Tie up loose ends on the blog from transferring my domain (clean up broken links, etc.)
Be more organized in keeping track of my reading
Keep enjoying reading and not stress out about anything reading related
Favorite Books Read in 2012 (Fiction)
The Postmortal by Drew Magary (I think this is my favorite novel of 2012. I read it back in February and it has still stuck with me!)
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Crecian Experience by Elle Lapraim
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
Others Worth Mentioning
Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier
My Familiar Stranger by Victoria Danann
If Today Be Sweet by Thrity Umrigar
Overseas by Beatriz Williams
Siddhartha by Hermann Hess
Queenpin by Megan Abbott
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Non-Fiction Favorites
Celebrity, Inc. by Jo Piazza
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Passion Test by Janet and Chris Attwood
Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
Super Rich by Russell Simmons
The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto
The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen
What were your favorite books of 2012? If you’ve got a similar post I’d love to check it out so please leave a link in the comments! Here’s to a great 2013 in books!
Woah! Great recap. I’ve been meaning to do one myself, but then I realised that I have a 4 page essay to write about existentialist literature (I’ve been ignoring this during my winter hols), and 2 crime novels to read (I genuinely hate, hate, hate crime novels – damn this pop culture course) before Wednesday’s seminar (about 1000 pages) and I really just can’t be arsed!
So yeah, I might get to it sometime this month…
Also, I tried to get into Zone One and gave up about 150 pages in and goodess gracious his erudite writing self – I just couldn’t stand the prose, so I returned it to the library and have pretty much forgotten all about it since.
Happy New Year, by the by, I hope it’s a good one
FBT recently posted..The Outsider by Albert Camus (5/5) [re-read]
Thanks! I hope you get to do something similar as I love reading this kind of post. Although it can be time consuming to gather all the data so I don’t blame you for putting it off! And I was initially put off by Zone One and it took ages to get into it. I started it, then stopped, then re-started it and stuck with it and it did get a bit better but took some time to get into the rhythm of his writing. I found it to be worth it but it was also a pretty short book so that helped too. Happy New Year to you too and good luck with all your crime novels and essay!
You had a great year! Congrats on switching to self-hosting, I need to do that this year. But I already own my own domain name, so I’m a little fuzzy on how to make the switch. I may end up paying someone to do it for me.
I’m so glad that Outlander and Beauty Queens made it on your lists! I love them both. And I have The Age of Miracles from the library right now, so I’m glad to see that you mentioned that one as well.
Happy 2013!!
Sarah @ Sarah Says Read recently posted..Sarah Sunday!
I’d like to say ask me if you have any questions about switching over but it confused me and I consider myself to be pretty savvy! But my boyfriend was able to help out and made it go much smoother, so it might be worth it to hire a pro so you don’t lose all your posts and stuff.
And I absolutely loved The Age of Miracles so I hope you enjoy it too and am looking forward to your review!