Saturday, December 29, 2012

What was YOUR favorite book of 2012?

By my count, I managed to read 57 books during the past year.

While that may seem like a lot (or not very many to some voracious readers), it was only five books over of my annual goal of 52 books, that is, one book a week.

You’ll find a complete list below of the books that I finished this year, and I have to admit that it was hard for me to pick out my favorite book, or shall I say, books of the year. I’d alphabetically rank my Top 10 as follows:

1. 1912 by Chris Turney
2. The Art of Manliness by Brett and Kate McKay
3. The Barefoot Bandit by Bob Friel
4. Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag by Creek Stewart
5. The Complete History of Evergreen, Alabama by Pat Poole
6. Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon by Mark Hodder
7. Forgotten Tales of Alabama by Kelly Kazek
8. From Nymph to Mobile and Beyond by Fred Richardson Jr.
9. Haunted Tuscaloosa by David Higdon and Brett J. Talley
10. The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen

Without further ado, here’s the list of books that I read during the past year. Which of these books have you had the chance to read? Which did you like or dislike and why? What was your favorite book from the past year, regardless if it’s on the list below or not? Let us know in the comments section below.

1. 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
2. 101 Secrets of the Freemasons by Barbara Karg and John K. Young
3. 1912 by Chris Turney
4. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
5. Annapurna by Maurice Herzog
6. The Art of Manliness by Brett and Kate McKay
7. The Barefoot Bandit by Bob Friel
8. The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved by Lawrence David Kusche
9. Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon by T.H. White
10. A Bridge to Light by Rex R. Hutchens

11. Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag by Creek Stewart
12. Chasing Rocky by J.P. Flaim
13. A Christmas Carol, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
14. The Complete History of Evergreen, Alabama by Pat Poole
15. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
16. Congo by Michael Crichton
17. Crescent Dawn by Clive Cussler
18. Essential Doctor Strange, Vol. 1
19. Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon by Mark Hodder
20. Flight of the Old Dog by Dale Brown

21. Forgotten Tales of Alabama by Kelly Kazek
22. From Nymph to Mobile and Beyond by Fred Richardson Jr.
23. Golden Buddha by Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo
24. The Great Lakes Triangle by Jay Gourley
25. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
26. Haunted Tuscaloosa by David Higdon and Brett J. Talley
27. Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola and John Byrne
28. Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil by Mike Mignola
29. Hellboy, Vo. 3: The Chained Coffin & Others by Mike Mignola
30. Hellboy, Vol. 4: The Right Hand of Doom by Mike Mignola

31. Hellboy, Vol. 5: Conqueror Worm by Mike Mignola
32. Hellboy, Vol. 6: Strange Places by Mike Mignola
33. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
34. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
35. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
36. Jack Knife by Virginia Baker
37. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, edited by Frank Bergon
38. Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
39. Kull: Exile of Atlantis by Robert E. Howard
40. Manvotionals by Brett and Kate McKay

41. The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen
42. Medusa by Clive Cussler
43. Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
44. Mud, Sweat and Tears by Bear Grylls
45. Night by Elie Wiesel
46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
47. The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman Jr.
48. Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
49. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkein
50. Spygate: The Untold Story by Bryan O’Leary

51. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
52. UFOs in Wartime by Mack Maloney
53. Welding for Dummies by Steven R. Farnsworth
54. White Death by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
55. Wild Goose Chase by Mark Batterson
56. Writer Without a Cause by Cam Baker
57. The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

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