Books read in 2012
I re-read books now and then, but judging from previous years' lists I don't include them here. This year's includes at least one re-read, and I still can't decide if its presence is unwarranted. I'm going with no, it's not, because this isn't a list of "books read for the first time."

January
-A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin (1.4.12)
-The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, Jonathan D. Spence (1.15.12)
-A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin (1.29.12)

February
-Nile Shadows, Edward Whittemore (2.2.12)
-The Cold Six Thousand, James Ellroy (2.5.12)
-Blood's A Rover, James Ellroy (2.17.12)

March
-The World is Made of Stories, David R. Loy (3.2.12)
-Jericho Mosaic, Edward Whittemore (3.13.12)
-What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver (3.16.12)
-Embassytown, China Mieville (3.29.12)

April
-A Dance With Dragons, George R.R. Martin (4.1.12)
-Last Call, Tim Powers (4.16.12)
-The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitt (4.30.12)

May
-Within A Budding Grove, Marcel Proust (C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, trans.)(5.3.12)
-Nightmare Town, Dashiell Hammett (5.9.12)
-Satori in Paris, Jack Kerouac (5.13.12)
-Mountain Tasting: Zen Haiku by Santoka Taneda, Taneda Santoka (John Stevens, trans.)(5.15.12)
-The Gunslinger, Stephen King (5.18.12)
-Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man, Jonathan D. Spence (5.23.12)
-The Fat Years, Chan Koonchung (Michael S. Duke, trans.) (5.27.12)

June
-The Year of the Gadfly, Jennifer Miller (6.2.12)
-The Drawing of the Three, Stephen King (6.8.12)
-Ming China, 1368-1644: A Concise History of a Resilient Empire, John W. Dardess (6.12.12)
-Zeroville, Steve Erickson (6.14.12)
-China's Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China, Ichisada Miyazaki (Conrad Schirokauer, trans.) (6.23.12)

July
-The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Laird Barron (7.15.12) (first book read cover to cover on a Kindle)
-Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China, Robert J. Antony (7.24.12)

August
-1Q84, Haruki Murakami (Jay Rubin/Philip Gabriel, trans.) (8.9.12)
-Chronic City, Jonathan Lethem (8.20.12)

September
-Erasmus and the Age of Reformation, Johan Huizinga (9.4.12)
-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carre (9.6.12)
-Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta, Aglaja Veteranyi (Vincent Kling, trans.) (9.11.12)
-Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, Gordon Mathews (9.22.12)

October
-Distrust That Particular Flavor, William Gibson (10.7-9.12)
-How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu (10.10-11.12)
-Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil (10.13.12)
-Homer & Langley, E.L. Doctorow (10.25.12)

November
-The Strange Case of Edward Gorey, Alexander Theroux (11.4.12)
-Teatro Grottesco, Thomas Ligotti (11.14.12)
-Lights Out for the Territory, Iain Sinclair (11.16.12)
-Rendezvous With Rama, Arthur C. Clarke (11.24.12)
-Godwalker, Greg Stolze (11.29.12)

December
-The Last Days of the Renaissance and the March to Modernity, Theodore K. Rabb (12.10.12)
-The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (Edward Seymour Forster, trans.) (12.10.12)
-All Tomorrow's Parties, William Gibson (12.28.12) (reread)


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