As for me, I had another dismal year of reading. My resolution for 2013 is to read a whole lot more. Working from home has improved my life immeasurably in all areas save the fact that I miss about 90 minutes of commute-reading time. Thus, in the past 3 years I've gone from around 60-70 books a year, to around 20.

Favorite part of 2012 for me was the fact that I FINALLY listened to metafilter and read some stuff by Guy Gavriel Kay. And then slapped myself upside the head for not doing it sooner. Also re-read Infinite Jest, so that took a decent chunk of time. Also FINALLY read Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching books. So wonderful. Can't wait to read them to/with my daughter when she's of an age to do so.

Best non-fiction book that I read? Hands down 'The Warmth of Other Suns' by Isabel Wilkerson. I want everyone in the world to read that book.

And here's the list (in order of reading) As usual, it's reasonably well populated with crap. I do love my mass-market fantasy :)

The Inheritance: and other stories - Megan Lindholm/Robin Hobb
The Gargoyle -Andrew Davidson
Staying Dead - Laura Anne Gilman
Infinite Jest (re-read) - David Foster Wallace
Mr. Peanut - Adam Ross
Open City - Teju Cole
The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
A Hat full of Sky - Terry Pratchett
The Obamas - Jodi Kantor
The Shattered Vine - Laura Anne Gilman
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Lizard Music - Daniel Pinkwater
Is Everybody Hanging out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) - Mindy Kaling
At Home - Bill Bryson
The Psychopath Test, a Journey Through the Madness Industry - Jon Ronson
Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett
The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
One of Our Thursdays is Missing - Jasper Fforde
The Prince, the Showgirl and Me - Colin Clark
I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett
The Pope Who Quit - Jon M Sweeney
Under Heaven - Guy Gavriel Kay

All my reading this year has been on the Kindle, so it's easy to keep track of what I've read. This year's tally (in alphabetical order, thanks to Kindle) is:

11/22/63 - Stephen King
Bitter is the New Black - Jen Lancaster
Blue Monday - Nicci French
Bossypants - Tina Fey
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (re-read)
The Brimstone Wedding - Barbara Vine (re-read)
Cleaving - Julie Powell
Damage - John Lescroart
A Dark-Adapted Eye - Barbara Vine (re-read)
Didn't I Feed You Yesterday - Laura Bennett (yes, ex-Project Runway Laura Bennett)
Everyone's Reading Bastard - Nick Hornby
Game Change - John Heilemann
The Game - Neil Strauss
Girls Like Us - Sheila Weller
The Hardest (Working) Man in Show Business - Ron Jeremy
The Hunter - John Lescroart
Idiot America - How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free - Charles Pierce
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - Crystal Zevon
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
The Man In The Rockefeller Suit - Mark Seal - Best non-fiction
Not Taco Bell Material - Adam Carolla
The Other Family - Joanna Trollope
Pornstar - Ian Gittler
Skylight Confessions - Alice Hoffman
Slob - Ellen Potter
State of Wonder - Anne Patchett - Best fiction
Submarine - Joe Dunthorpe
The Thieves of Manhattan - Adam Langer
Tigerlily's Orchids - Ruth Rendell
Undue Influence - Anita Brookner
Unorthodox - Deborah Feldman
What To Do When Someone Dies - Nicci French
The Winter House - Nicci Gerrard
The Wrong Mother - Sophie Hannah

I read some of the books bunnies recommended. I read Code Name: Verity, The Psychopath Test, and A Visit From the Goon Squad in pretty short order. I liked them! I hit the Psychopath Test blind though, and at first thought it was going to be fiction. It reads much differently until you realize it's not, I promise you.

The Last Don was on deck but I got sidetracked and haven't got back to those recommendations yet. I did silently tell myself to finish all those books in that thread. I'm a slow orbiter.

Also I got a Kindle Paperwhite and I love it to death.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing - Jasper Fforde

My girlfriend borrowed my Kindle for awhile and when I got it back Fforde's Shades of Grey wound up on there. I did a double-take. With Fforde though, for me, it's the Fourth Bear >> The Big Over-Easy >>> his other stuff. :-/

A few favs (culled from my Goodreads "Read" shelf):

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott
Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe (I love a good Hollywood diva memoir)
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
So Rich, So Poor: Why the Wealthiest Nation in the World Is Losing the Battle Against Poverty by Peter Edelman
Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope by Gabrielle Gifords

I don't know how many books I'll read in the coming year; I find myself easily bored. I used to be able to push through a little more; now I give up at the slightest hint of boredom. Plus I like to crawl in bed around 9:30 and just fall asleep ASAP.

Kindle Paperwhites are THE BEST.

I am gonna read 365 books this year and maybe even a couple more.

These were my favorites!

I do a round-up every year, here's 2012 with links to each mini-review, but pasting in some:

Non-fiction

How to Talk to Anyone by Leil Lowndes
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman, Nan Silver
When London Was Capital of America by Julie Flavell
Adventures in the Orgasmatron by Christopher Turner
Republic by Plato
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Plato, Socrates and the Dialogues by Michael Sugrue
The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker
Fall of the Pagans and the Origins of Medieval Christianity by Kenneth W. Harl
The Frock-Coated Communist by Tristram Hunt
From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp
Wild Grass by Ian Johnson
Logistics and Supply Chain Management by Martin Christopher
The Case for Books by Robert Darnton
Tabloid Girl by Sharon Marshall
The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism by Hamid Dabashi
State Building by Francis Fukuyama
Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau by Christopher Brooke
Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Confessions of a Mullah Warrior by Masood Farivar
Dispirited by Davis Webster
Scroogenomics by Joel Waldfogel
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discordia by Molly Crabapple, Laurie Penny
Superheroes by William Irwin
Meat Market by Laurie Penny

SF

Snuff by Terry Pratchett
Side Jobs by Jim Butcher
The Glamour by Christopher Priest
Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds
The Quantum Thief by Hanny Rajaniemi
By Light Alone by Adam Roberts
Banner of Souls by Liz Williams
Embedded by Dan Abnett
The Minority Council by Kate Griffin
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
Chez Max by Jakob Arjouni
Salvage by Robert Edric
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
Incompetence by Rob Grant
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Wake by Robert Sawyer
Embassytown by China Mieville
The Rapture of the Nerds by Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway

Non-SF fiction

Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Chez Max by Jakob Arjouni
Seek My Face by John Updike
A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
Madame Mephisto by A. M. Bakalar
Pure by Andrew Miller
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle
The Fear Index by Robert Harris
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Comics

Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
Habibi by Craig Thompson
Are You My Mother by Alison Bechdel

Highlights
Non-fiction:
The gonzo-journalism-from-Greece book "Discordia" was a good concept that I hope catches on: an e-book somewhere between an essay and a book in both length and price. "Dispirited" was an attack on the spiritual-but-not-religious that unfortunately manages only the wrong half of the the trick: intermediate in length, but the price of a full-sized book. Stephen Pinker's "The Better Angels of our Nature" makes a fairly persuasive argument that things are getting better for the human race over the long term. "Triumph of the City" does the same for cities. "When London Was Capital of America" and the Engels biography "The Frock-Coated Communist" were interesting slices of history.

SF:
"The Quantum Thief" was a great slice of modern science fiction with good ideas. "Embassytown" was SF with a nice retro feel. "On the Beach" deserves its reputation as a classic.

Non-SF fiction:
"The Great Gatsby" also turned out to be surprisingly good for a classic. "Pure" was a memorable, atmospheric novel about excavating a graveyard in pre-revolutionary France.

Comics:
Hardly read any comics, but "Habibi" was the definite highlight: sexy, compelling and brilliantly composed, though its blatant orientalizing will annoy some.

My vote for book of the year goes to "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" by Ben Fountain. Funny and awkward and farcical and really well written. Probably not for everybody, but I liked it.

Other books I read this year that I enjoyed:
"Tomato Red" by Daniel Woodrell - I actually liked it better than Winter's Bone
"The Gone-Away World" by Nick Harkaway (I started "Angelmaker" but got really busy with school and had to put it down. I'll have to start again, but I was really enjoying it)
"The Devil All the Time" by Donald Ray Pollock - potentially the most brutal book I've ever read. Seriously, it's grizzly as fuck.

Bah. There were others I read, but most of that was early in the year. Just got way too busy. Weaksauce.

I have an account on goodreads or whatever it's called, but I quickly discovered I hated entering stuff into it. All these lists kind of make me wish I had, though. It might be fun to have a big cumulative list. Problem is though, I start a lot of books that I don't finish.

As poor Scott Moncrieff is well aware of!

:P

My favorite book this year is "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore" by Robin Sloan. Great book for nerds and so much better than I expected of a (relatively) new writer ... :-)

Other than that, I was disappointed by a couple of Terry Pratchetts, giggled girlily through several Simon Brett Charles Paris mysteries, and was enthralled by Connie Willis (Blackout and All Clear).

Last February I started doing Goodreads and I really intended to enter every single book I read. Really. No, really. Actually I did okay for about 7 - 8 months and then I fizzled out. But in those months I read or reread 150 books, which are sort of listed here.

Hmm, some highlights - I also loved Connie Willis' Blackout and All Clear; I finally read the Wind Up Bird Chronicles and loved it, or, rather was puzzled and challenged and confused and enthralled by it; I read and really liked every single Jennifer Crusie romance and I am not even going to be embarrassed that I'm reading romances - she is a genius, the Georgette Heyer of our day (and I also discovered her in the last month or so and yay, hurrah for Georgette Heyer.) Let's see, what else? It took me months to finish Railsea but by the end I couldn't put it down (although I didn't like Embassytown anywhere near as much.) I read a lot of really good urban fantasy (Kate Griffin, Ben Aaronovitch, Patricia Briggs) and some that was not so good (Kelley Armstrong, Janet Chapman god help me.)

And working in a bookstore has not been good at all for my book addiction, although, if you look at it another way, you could say that it's been GREAT for my book addiction. ;-)

What an amazing thread. You all put my reading pace to shame. Though I have to claim some leniency because my gradschool classes make me read a lot of dull stuff that doesn't count toward my personal-reading total but uses up reading time.

My bests of the year:

Best non-fiction book that I read? Hands down 'The Warmth of Other Suns' by Isabel Wilkerson. I want everyone in the world to read that book.

Echoing that. Absolutely amazing book, the kind that once you've read it changes your perspective forever. And beautifully told.

Under the Banner of Heaven - John Krakauer. Interesting but a little too true-crime/sensationalistic to yield the best insights.
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - Gary Giddins. Interesting subject, deadly dull writing.
India Calling: An INtimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking - Anand Girihardas. Awesome, interesting, smart. The author is coming to speak here, and I can't wait to meet him.
Down the Jersey Shore - Russel Roberts. A history of seaside recreation, 1800 on. Good.
The Lace Reader , Brunonia Barrier - potboiler fiction, local setting, a turkey.
The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker - One of the good Bakers. A paean to metered poetry, and a quirky essay in one.
Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome - How did i never discover this series growing up? Oh well, it's never too late to have a happy childhood. Children cavort on the English lakes while their father fights in WWII.
Townie: A Memoir, Andre Dubus - Great personal history of dealing with tough neighborhoods and trying to understand what responsible masculinity looks like. Dubus is an awesome writer, and a salt of the earth guy.
A couple of Michael Pollan books: Omnivore's Dilemma and IN Defense of Food. Loved them both.
The Proper Bostonians, Cleveland Amory - or as I said, the job manual I wish they'd issued me.
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne - first thing I read on my 2011 Christmas gift, a Kindle. Man that is a good book; I barely paid attention to it in high school, so was glad to make its acquaintance again.
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work = the steamy, nutty backstory of the American transcendentalists.
Conversing by Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture academic and slow paced but really pretty interesting - talks about why early New England houses are designed the way they are, basically because of fear of "wildness" and evil spirits.
Caleb's Crossing, Geraldine Brooks - great fiction piece, imagines the story of one of the first Native American students to attend Harvard in the 1600s. Very well researched and well told.
Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1910-2010, Michael Kupperman - ridiculously silly. Mark Twain's second century, fighting crime with superheroes and playing the prankster. From the author/artist behind Snake & Bacon.
Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell - long-awaited historical essay by my pretend best friend; this one wasn't quite as well put together as her others, though interesting.
The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth by Lena Lencek. A cultural history of beach recreation around the world. Absolutely great, learned a LOT.

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I'm on GoodReads and use it to track what I've read, so look me up if you're there. Hope 2013 brings more book time.

Thank you for sharing your reads. It's a nice source of finding new reading material.
In the spirit of reciprocity: I was very struck by Computational Logic and Human Thinking: How to be artificially intelligent (Robert Kowalski, Cambridge Press). It explains the good bits of the Logic part of Artificial Intelligence without explicit mathematics.

I too hope you look me up on Goodreads, where I am Catherine, in the MetaFilter group, and reasonably diligent about noting my recently devoured books.