Books of the Year 2012

A list of the books I read in 2012. It is considerably less mighty than those of previous years, for which I blame grad school. I did tons of reading this year, but not all of it was in book form.

1. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi 1/27
2. The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher by Randolph Hock 1/30
3. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan 2/24
4. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston 2/28
5. The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan 3/2
6. The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan 3/8
7. The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan 3/13
8. Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin 4/4
9. A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin 4/29
10. The Oxford Guide to Library Research by Thomas Mann 4/29
11. Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin 5/29
12. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin 6/16
13. A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin 6/26
14. Out of Oz: The final volume in the Wicked Years by Gregory Maguire 7/12
15. The Craft of Research, 3^rd Edition by Booth, Colomb, and Williams 7/22
16. Bringing It All Together: Language and Literacy in the Multilingual Classroom by Marcia Brechtel 8/30
17. Endymion by Dan Simmons 9/19
18. Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction by Isabel Beck, et al. 9/26
19. The Pearl by John Steinbeck 10/30
20. Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons 11/11
21. My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier and Collier 11/ 19
22. The Magician King by Lev Grossman 11/27

Some trends:

• I read books that I assigned to my students
• I read books about teaching
• I read/finished a few series: A Song of Ice and Fire, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Hyperion Cantos, etc. 

Goals for 2012:

• Read at least 52 books (grad school will soon be done, so not unreasonable).
• Ride my bike 1000+ miles.