2012 marks the third year of my challenge. So far I have logged 63 and 75 books in my two previous attempts. This list will hopefully track my successful campaign in 2012.
- Light in August by William Faulkner, January 10
- Sand and Foam by Khalil Gibran, January 11
- 100 Best Beatles Songs by Spignesi and Lewis, January 14
- The Mauritius Command by Patrick O’Brian, January 18
- Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche, January 23
- Rabbit, Run by John Updike, February 28
- The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway, March 5
- Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King, March 9
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, March 12
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, March 12
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, March 13
- Daisy Miller by Henry James, March 14
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, March 15
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, March 18
- The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, March 22
- Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy, March 27
- The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche, April 15
- Pictor’s Metamorphoses by Hermann Hesse, April 19
- A Short History of Existentialism by Jean Wahl, April 23
- The Plague by Albert Camus, April 26
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, May 2
- The Art of the Commonplace by Wendell Berry, May 13
- One Hundred and One Famous Poems, edited by Roy Cook, May 19
- Secrets of the Heart by Khalil Gibran, May 19
- Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche, May 27
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, June 5
- Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes, June 8
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, June 9
- The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson, June 14
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson, June 18
- The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, July 5
- White Noise by Don DeLillo, July 10