2012's Number Is...

Recently a friend of mine said she'd set a goal to read 175 books in 2012, and she had met it in October.  I am astounded by this!  In the early 2000s, I had a goal to read 50 books a year and used to just barely make it.  I stopped counting several years ago, but this 175 books thing got me curious, so through the magic of show notes and Goodreads, I was able to make a list of the books I read in 2012.  Apparently either the podcast or my habit of listening to books most of the time has increased my numbers, because I blew past 50 without even trying!  Here is every book I read in 2012:

1. Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay
2. One Mississippi by Mark Childress
3. Bossypants by Tina Fey
4. The Language of Secrets by Diane Dixon
5. Getting Stoned With Savages by J. Maarten Troost
6. Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey
7. The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais
8. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
9. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
10. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
11. What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
12. The Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes
13. Strip Tease by Carl Hiaasen
14. Ice Cold by Tess Gerritson
15. Never Enough by Joe McGuinness
16. Therese Raquin by Emil Zola
17. This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
18. The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith
19. Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
20. Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris
21. Hit By A Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn by Catherine Friend
22. Island of the Sequinned Love Nun by Christopher Moore
23. Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
24. Death on the Wolf by G. M. Frazier
25. The Puppet Maker's Bones by Alisa Tangredi
26. The Volunteer by Barbara Sissel Taylor
27. Written in Blood by Diane Fanning
28. Defending Jacob by William Landay
29. The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith
30. Deliverance by James Dickey
31. False Pretenses by Margaret Yorke
32. The World According to Garp by John Irving
33. Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
34. Hardly Knew Her by Laura Lippman
35. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
36. To Have and To Kill: Nurse Melanie McGuire, an Illicit Affair, and the Gruesome Murder of Her Husband by John Glatt
37. Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
38. The Pastor's Wife by Diane Fanning
39. Fool by Christopher Moore
40. Cheer by Leslie A. Gordon
41. Never See Them Again by M. William Phelps
42. Ferris Beach by Jill McCorkle
43. Columbine by Dave Cullen
44. Twisted by Amity Hope
45. Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
46. The Anniversary by Amy Gutman
47. Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen
48. Persuasion by Jane Austen
49. Texas Love Triangle Murder by Kathryn Casey
50. The Hanged Man by Orson Scott Card
51. The Goddess of Fried Okra by Jean Brashears
52. Portuegese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith
53. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
54. Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
55. Restless Souls: The Sharon Tate Family's Account of Stardom, the Manson Murders, and a Crusade for Justice by Alisa Statman and Brie Tate
56. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
57. And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman
58. In the Pleasure Groove by John Taylor
59. Salem's Lot by Stephen King

Of the 59 titles....

• 12 were Supense/Mystery 
• 8 were True Crime
• 15 were Non-Fiction
• 10 were Humor
• 3 were Classics
• 3 were Horror
• 4 were collections of short stories
• 30 were written by authors I hadn't read before
• 7 were books I had read before

So, a pretty good mix.  No goals for the coming year - I like being able to just read whatever floats my boat in the moment.  Have you ever made similar lists?  Do you have reading goals each year?  Discuss.