Owls Count

Here is a list of the books I read for the first time in 2012.

1. Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner
2. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
3. Creature of the Night by Kate Thompson
4. Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
5. Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
6. The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
7. The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
8. Wise Children by Angela Carter
9. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
10. Scatterheart by Lili Wilkinson
11. Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
12. Half World by Hiromi Goto
13. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
14. Chime by Franny Billingsley
15. The Rose and The Beast: Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca Lia Block
16. Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
17. Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
18. Trash by Andy Mulligan
19. Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine
20. Leaving Poppy by Kate Cann
21. Hero by Perry Moore
22. The Red Umbrella by Christina Gonzalez
23. The Prisoner by Robert Muchamore
24. My Summer of Love by Helen Cross
25. Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin
26. Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone
27. Ingo by Helen Dunmore
28. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
29. The Spook House by Ambrose Bierce
30. Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
31. Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry
32. Ribblestrop by Andy Mulligan
33. The 25th Hour by David Benioff
34. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
35. How The Light Gets In by M.J. Hyland
36. Castle of Shadows by Ellen Renner
37. Prosperity Without Growth: Economics For A Finite Planet by Tim Jackson
38. The Ring of Wind by Chris Bradford
39. My Side Of The Story by Will Davis
40. In Defence of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
41. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
42. The Outcasts by John Flanagan
43. Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
44. Fifteen Days Without a Head by Dave Cousins
45. Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
46. Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore
47. The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston
48. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
49. When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
50. 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
51. The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
52. Inside My Head by Jim Carrington
53. The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
54. Raft by Stephen Baxter
55. Bloodchild by Tim Bowler
56. The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett
57. Berserk by Ally Kennen
58. Everybody Jam by Ali Lewis
59. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
60. The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey
61. The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones
62. Starseeker by Tim Bowler
63. Kill All Enemies by Melvin Burgess
64. Tamar by Mal Peet
65. Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
66. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
67. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (Siobhan Dowd and Jim Kay)
68. Sky Hawk by Gill Lewis
69. River Boy by Tim Bowler
70. The Radleys by Matt Haig
71. A Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma
72. Stolen by Lucy Christopher
73. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
74. The Invaders by John Flanagan
75. The New World Order by Ben Jeapes
76. Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
77. The Serpent’s Shadow by Rick Riordan
78. Useful Idiots by Jan Mark
79. Torn by Cat Clarke