Books I’ve Read in 2012
I read a lot, and it is something that I always encourage people to do. Reading not only enhances your vocabulary and language, but it also gives you a different outlook in using perspectives that is not entirely your own, which then helps your analytical skills. These skills are essential in today’s society as it is important in communicating with people who are—day by day—becoming more opinionated.
These are not the only reasons why I encourage reading, but nothing in this world could compare to the capability of your imagination. People always give the excuse that they don’t have time to read. False. The amount of time you’re reading this post could instead be spent with a book propped up on your lap and your eyes scouring through the text. I have fooled you. Get out of here and read a book instead. There is always time to read!
By listing out the books I’ve read every year, I am trying to encourage people to pick up a book too. Come and compete with me! Yes, that made me sound like a tool, but we are all essential tools in the great universe!
Bold titles below are highly recommended books. Some of these are rereads but they are mostly first time reads.
BOOKS 2012
1. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
2. Voting in Change: Politics of Singapore’s 2011 General Election edited by Kevil YL Tan and Terence Lee
3. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
4. Regional Outlook Southeast Asia 2012-2013 by ISEAS
5. The Hound of Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8. His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. The Memoirs of Casanova by Giacomo Casanova (audiobook read by Benedict Cumberbatch)
10. The Case-Books of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11. Feed by MT Anderson
12. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
13. The Fault in our Stars by John Green
14. Eleven by Mark Watson
15. Fables: Super Team by Bill Willingham
16. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
17. Melayu: The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness edited by Maznah Mohamad and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
19. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
20. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
21. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E Smith
22. Boy by Roald Dahl
23. Domination and Contestation by Faisal Hazis
24. The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
25. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
26. Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America
27. Heartbreak and Magic by Ian Rosales Casocot
28. Free-Range Chickens by Simon Rich
29. The Waste Land by TS Eliot
30. Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
31. Going Solo by Roald Dahl
32. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
33. Complete Sonnets by William Shakespeare
34. The Incomplete Tim Key by Tim Key (I just… cannot explain how much love I have for Tim Key after reading this. I weep every time I think about it just for the sheer genius that binds this book together.)
35. Zombies VS Unicorns ed. Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier
36. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
37. 100 Facts About Pandas by David O’Doherty, Claudia O’Doherty and Mike Ahern
38. All These Things I’ve Done by Gabrielle Zevin
39. Book of Fairy Tales by Angela Carter
40. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F Scott Fitzgerald
41. A Light-hearted Look at Murder by Mark Watson (OH. MY. GOD. This book… THIS BOOK. SO. GOOD.)
42.Instructions, Guidelines, Tutelage, Suggestions, Other Suggestions and Examples Etc: An Attempted Book by Tim Key (And Descriptions/Conversations/A Piece About a Moth)
42. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
(The series of reading Sherlock Holmes books was the period of time I had to wait for The Fault in Our Stars. Also, Sherlock was on, so I went a bit crazy…)
• Notes
