Yes, this is ripped off of Olivia's awesome blog because it struck me as a good idea. I shall forthwith produce a list of the books I've read this year. The numbers have nothing to do with rank; they just count how many books I've read this year. The ratings I give will be by letter, but one may imagine them as stars: one star fails, and an grade-"A" book gets five. Savvy? Oh, and some of my favorite books may get three or four stars due to more critical, objective aspects, as opposed to how much I enjoyed them. Also, I may change my views over time, so don't be shocked to see a different grade on Shelfari of GoodReads or whatever.
Begin!
- 9 (screenplay) ~ C
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ~ A
- Animal Farm ~ B
- Between Shades of Gray ~ B
- Catching Fire ~ B
- Catwings Return ~ C (apparently this is part of a series, so I might change the "memory grade" later)
- A Christmas Carol ~ C
- The Clockwork Experiment ~ B (Olivia's book - not yet published, but I'm rooting for it to catch an agent's eye)
- The Crucible ~ A (can't remember if I actually read all of it, as it was for English class and partly read and partly viewed as a film)
- Dead End in Norvelt ~ B
- Death Note 1 ~ A (although this is my first and so far only manga, so I may not be the best judge)
- The Doll's House (Sandman #2) ~ B
- Dracula ~ B
- Every You, Every Me ~ A
- Fahrenheit 451 ~ B
- The Floating Islands ~ A
- The Giver ~ B
- The Great Redwall Feast ~ B
- Hamlet ~ A
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ~ A
- The Hunger Games ~ B
- Lady Windermere's Fan ~ B
- Macbeth ~ B
- Mattimeo ~ C
- MirrorMask ~ A
- Misery (screenplay) ~ A
- Mockingjay ~ B
- Mossflower ~ B
- Of Mice and Men ~ B
- Othello ~ A
- Painted Fire ~ B
- Paper Covers Rock ~ A
- Paper Towns ~ B
- Persepolis ~ A
- The Phantom Limb ~ D
- The Poison Eaters and Other Stories ~ A
- Preludes & Nocturnes (Sandman #1) ~ A
- Redwall ~ A
- Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto ~ F
- Robot Haiku ~ C
- Romeo and Juliet ~ A
- Rot & Ruin ~ B
- Salome ~ B
- The Shadowing: Hunted ~ C
- The Stand ~ C
- The Summer of May ~ C
- Ten Little Indians (play) ~ B
- Through the Looking-Glass ~ B
- The Two Princesses of Bamarre ~ A
- Vampire Crush ~ F (I didn't even read the whole thing, but it was definitely awful)
- Welcome to Bordertown ~ B
- Wither ~ B
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ~ A (if you can picture something even better than the beloved late-'30's movie, you know what I mean)
So there we have it. Fifty-three, eh? My goal (and resolution) for 2012 is to read more than that. I'll set it at seventy-five. Maybe eventually I'll be in the hundreds, eh? We shall see!
