50 books: 2012

1. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
2. Fahrenheit 451
3. The Little Prince
4. The Great Gatsby
5. Breakfast at Tiffany's
6. Tales of Beedle the Bard
7. Submarine
8. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
9. The Fault in Our Stars
10. Cosmopolis
11. Belle de Jour: The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
12. The Seeker's Guide to Harry Potter
13. Dear Me: More Letters to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self
14. Love, Stargirl
15. The Bell Jar
16. The Hunger Games
17. Catching Fire
18. Mockingjay
19. Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging
20. It's Ok, I'm Wearing...
21. Ariel
22. Anne Devlin...
23. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
24. Death of a Lady's Man
25. Without Feathers
26. Love & War & Everything Else
27. Getting Even
28. The Help
29. Side Effects
30. The Sense of an Ending
31. Harry Potter & Philosophy
32. Dog Walks Man
33. Thirteen Reasons Why
34. Looking For Alaska
35. An Abundance of Katherines
36. Emma
37. Anna and the French Kiss
38. Paper Towns
39. Why We Broke Up
40. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
41. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
42. The Time Traveler's Wife
43. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
44. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
45. How to Be a Woman
46. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
47. Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
48. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
49. Life of Pi
50. The Name of the Star

Fifty.

Well, I did it. Fifty books in 2011.

1. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
3. Marley & Me - John Grogan
4. Naive. Super - Erlend Loe
5. An Education - Lynn Barber
6. Love & War & Everything Else - Casey Morell
7. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
8. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
9. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
10. One Day - David Nicholls
11. Book of Longing - Leonard Cohen
12. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
13. Thanks for the Memories - Cecelia Ahern
14. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
15. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
16. The Viscount Who Loved Me - Julia Quinn
17. Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone - JK Rowling
18. Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
19. Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
20. Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
21. Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling
22. Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
24. The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella (ugh, it was a low point)
25. Looking for Alaska - John Green
26. By the Seat of my Pants: Humourous Tales of Travel and Misadventure - Donald W George
27. Eleven - Mark Watson
28. Stargirl: Pink - Jerry Spinelli
29. An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
30. Quidditch Through the Ages - JK Rowling
31. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
32. Very Good, Jeeves! - PG Wodehouse
33. The Time of My Life - Cecelia Ahern
34. Grimm’s Fairy Tales - The Brothers Grimm
35. The Name of the Star - Maureen Johnson
36. Noah Barleywater Runs Away - John Boyne
37. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend
38. The Definitive Book of Body Language - Barbara Pease and Allan Pease
39. Sive - John B Keane
40. Skinny Bitch - Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
41. Masters of Cinema: Woody Allen
42. The World of Karl Pilkington
43. Make ‘Em Laugh
44. Ten Poems About Tea - Sophie Dahl
45. Le Petit Nicolas et les Copains - René Goscinny
46. Kurt Cobain: Journals
47. A Gentleman’s Beside Book - Tom Cutler
48. Wit: the Final Word
49. Fuck You, Penguin - Matthew Gasteier
50. The Heart and the Bottle - Oliver Jeffers