Books I’ve Read in 2012

My one and only New Year’s Resolution this year was to read at least 50 books in 2012. If, for some reason, you want to keep track of my progress, you can do so here. The list below is of books I’ve finished so far, in the order I read them. 

1. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
2. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
3. Son of Hamas - Mosab Hassan Yousef
4. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
5. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
6. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
7. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
8. Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
9. Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
10. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
11. Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
12. The Bottom Billion - Paul Collier
13. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
14. The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
15. The Colony - Jillian Weise
16. A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit
17. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution - Francis Fukuyama
18. A Canticle For Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr.

In the queue:

• The Modern Middle East - Mehran Kamrava
• The Aeneid - Virgil (re-read)
• The History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
• A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
• Inés of My Soul - Isabel Allende
• Political Theory for Mortals - John E. Seery
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
• Globalization and its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• The Book Nobody Read - Owen Gingerich
• Russia and the Soviet Union - John M. Thompson