2011 Books

In 2010 I read 120 books – not counting the ones I didn’t finish! I beat my number of books read in 2009 by 29! I don’t have a number goal for this year, I would like to keep my books read around the 100 mark though. Let’s see how this year goes!

As I did in my 2010 Books I will be keeping track of my books read per month this year (TY) versus last year (LY).

January (TY: 15 | LY: 11)

1. Darklight (Wondrous Strange, #2) – Lesley Livingston
2. Ballads of Suburbia – Stephanie Kuehnert
3. The Shadows (The Books of Elsewhere, Vol. 1) – Jacqueline West
4. Rise of the Darklings (Invisible Order, #1) – Paul Crilley
5. Choker – Elizabeth Woods – 2011 Debut
6. Purge – Sarah Darer Littman
7. Reckless – Cornelia Funke
8. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
9. Seven Sorcerers – Caro King
10. Shadow Spell – Caro King
11. Ash – Malinda Lo
12. Wintercraft (Book 1) – Jenna Burtenshaw
13. XVI – Julia Karr – 2011 Debut
14. Wildthorn – Jane English
15. Tempestuous (Wondrous Strange, #3) – Lesley Livingston

February (TY: 13 | LY: 4)

1. Friday Night Bites (Chicagoland Vampires, #2) – Chloe Neill
2. Twice Bitten (Chicagoland Vampires #3) – Chloe Neill
3. Tempest’s Legacy (Jane True, #3) – Nicole Peeler
4. The Girl Who Chased the Moon – Sarah Addison Allen
5. The Iron Witch – Karen (Kaz) Mahoney – 2011 Debut
6. Arrow (Faery Rebels, #3) – R.J. Anderson
7. Wither (Chemical Garden #1) – Lauren DeStefano – 2011 Debut
8. Entangled – Cat Clarke – 2011 Debut
9. Outside In (Inside Out #2) – Maria V. Snyder
10. The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson #5) – Rick Riordan
11. Silver Borne (Mercedes Thompson, #5) – Patricia Briggs
12. Sizzling Sixteen (A Stephanie Plum Novel) – Janet Evanovich
13. Pale Demon (Rachel Morgan, #9) – ? Kim Harrison ?

March (TY: 12 | LY: 8 )

1. The 13 Secrets – Michelle Harrison
2. Ballad – Maggie Stiefvater
3. Get Well Soon – Julie Halpern
4. Into the Wild Nerd Yonder – Julie Halpern
5. The Bone Magician – F. E. Higgins
6. The Eyeball Collector – F.E. Higgins
7. Angelfire (Book 1) – Courtney Allison Moulton – 2011 Debut
8. Fragile Eternity (Wicked Lovely #3) – Melissa Marr
9. Demonglass (Hex Hall, #2) – Rachel Hawkins
10. The Cabinet of Wonders (The Kronos Chronicles, #1) – Marie Rutkoski
11. Poison – Chris Wooding
12. River Secrets (Books of Bayern, #3) – Shannon Hale

April (TY: 11 | LY: 13)

1. Forest Born (The Books of Bayern, #4) – Shannon Hale
2. Tyger Tyger (Goblin Wars, #1) – Kersten Hamilton
3. The Prince of Neither Here Nor There – Seán Cullen
4. Broken (Grant County, #7) – Karin Slaughter
5. Where She Went (If I Stay, #2) – Gayle Forman
6. Blackwatch (Wintercraft #2) – Jenna Burtenshaw
7. Ondine: The Summer of Shambles – Ebony McKenna
8. The Celestial Globe (The Kronos Chronicles, #2) – Marie Rutkoski
9. Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate #1) – Gail Carriger
10. Sophomore (Class of ’89) – Linda A. Cooney
11. Changeless (The Parasol Protectorate, #2) – Gail Carriger

May (TY: 17 | LY: 13)

1. Blameless (The Parasol Protectorate, #3) – Gail Carriger
2. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn (Eon #1) – Alison Goodman
3. Eona (Eon #2) – Alison Goodman
4. Through Her Eyes – Jennifer Archer – 2011 Debut
5. Never Sit Down in a Hoopskirt and Other Things I Learned in Southern Belle Hell – Cricket Rumley – 2011 Debut
6. Wake Unto Me – Lisa Cach – 2011 Debut
7. Impossible – Nancy Werlin
8. Other – Karen Kincy
9. Elixir – Hilary Duff
10. Something Deadly This Way Comes (Madison Avery, #3) – Kim Harrison
11. The Doll People – Ann M. Martin
12. Gimme a Call – Sarah Mlynowski
13. It’s Kind of a Funny Story – Ned Vizzini
14. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac – Gabrielle Zevin
15. Nightshade (Book 1) – Andrea Cremer
16. Haunting Violet – Alyxandra Harvey
17. The Nancy Drew Files: Case #66 – Tall, Dark and Deadly – Carolyn Keene

June (TY: 8 | LY: 12)

1. Wolfsbane (Nightshade, #2) – Andrea Cremer
2. The Books of Elsewhere, Vol. 2 – Spellbound – Jacqueline West
3. Junior (Class of ’89) – Linda A. Cooney
4. The Demon’s Surrender (Demon’s Lexicon, Book 1) – Sarah Rees Brennan
5. Indulgence in Death (Eve Dallas, #31) – J.D. Robb
6. The Throne of Fire (Kane Chronicles, #2) – Rick Riordan
7. Starcrossed (Book 1) – Josephine Angelini – 2011 Debut
8. Knightly Academy (Book 1) – Violet Haberdasher

July (TY: 18 | LY: 17)

1. Heartless (Parasol Protectorate #4) – Gail Carriger
2. Once Every Never – Lesley Livingston
3. Forgotten – Cat Patrick – 2011 Debut
4. Cheat the Grave: The Fifth Sign of the Zodiac – Vicki Pettersson
5. Ultraviolet – R.J. Anderson
6. The Neon Graveyard: The Final Sign of the Zodiac – Vicki Pettersson
7. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making – Catherynne M Valente
8. Witchlanders – Lena Coakley – 2011 Debut
9. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer – Michelle Hodkin – 2011 Debut
10. The Jewel of the Kalderash (Kronos Chronicles, Book 3) – Marie Rutkoski
11. Blood Magic – Tessa Gratton – 2011 Debut
12. The Goddess Test – Aimée Carter – 2011 Debut
13. The Crowfield Curse – Pat Walsh
14. Supernaturally (Paranormalcy, #2) – Kiersten White
15. Small Town Sinners – Melissa Walker
16. Misfit – Jon Skovron
17. Divergent – Veronica Roth – 2011 Debut
18. Want to Go Private? – Sarah Darer Littman

August (TY: 12 | LY: 13)

1. Prophecy of Days – Book 2: The Serpent’s Coil– Christy Raedeke
2. Ruined: A Novel – Paula Morris
3. Dark Souls: A Novel – Paula Morris
4. Eye of the Tempest (Jane True, #4) – Nicole Peeler
5. Queste (Septimus Heap, #4) – Angie Sage
6. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs – 2011 Debut – 100th book!!
7. Treachery in Death (An Eve Dallas Novel) – J.D. Robb
8. Circle of Fire (Prophecy of the Sisters, #3) – Michelle Zink
9. Hard Bitten (Chicagoland Vampires, #4) – Chloe Neill
10. Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes – Jonathan Auxier – 2011 Debut
11. Perfect – Ellen Hopkins
12. Virtuosity – Jessica Martinez – 2011 Debut

September (TY: 11 | LY: 12)

1. Fiendish Deeds: The Joy of Spooking #1 – P. J. Bracegirdle
2. Total Eclipse (Weather Warden, #9) – Rachel Caine
3. Under the Green Hill – Laura L. Sullivan
4. Dark Inside (Book 1) – Jeyn Roberts – 2011 Debut – review in October 2011
5. Shadowfever (Fever , #5) – Karen Marie Moning
6. High King’s Tomb (Green Rider, #4)  – Kristen Britain
7. Witch Eyes – Scott Tracey – 2011 Debut
8. So Silver Bright (Théâtre Illuminata, Act III) – Lisa Mantchev
9. The Girl of Fire and Thorns (Fire and Thorns, #1)  – Rae Carson – 2011 Debut
10. The Apothecary – Maile Meloy – 2011 Debut
11. The Lunatic’s Curse (Tales of the Sinister City, #4) – F. E. Higgins

October (TY: 9 | LY: 4)

1. Dragon Keeper (Rain Wilds Chronicles, Volume One) – Robin Hobb
2. The Demon Trapper’s Daughter (Demon Trappers, #1) – Jana Oliver
3. Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories – edited by Megan Kelley Hall & Carrie Jones
4. Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger
5. Dreaming Anastasia – Joy Preble
6. The Near Witch – Victoria Schwab – 2011 Debut
7. Shine – Lauren Myracle
8. Beautiful Chaos (Caster Chronicles, #3) – Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
9. Born at Midnight (Shadow Falls, #1) – c.c. hunter – 2011 Debut

November (TY: 9 | LY: 3)

1. The Last Dragonslayer – Jasper Fforde
2. The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
3. First Day on Earth – Cecil Castellucci
4. Touch of Frost (Mythos Academy, #1) – Jennifer Estep
5. The Faerie Ring (Faerie Ring, #1) – Kiki Hamilton
6. Prized (Birthmarked, #2) – Caragh M. O’Brien
7. Bad Kitty vs Uncle Murray – Nick Bruel
8. The Placebo Effect – David Rotenberg – review to come January 2012
9. The Future of Us – Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler

Did Not Finish: Devoted (Elixir, #2) – Hilary Duff

 December (TY: ? | LY: 8 )

1. The Mane Squeeze (Pride, #4) – Shelly Laurenston
2. A Bad Kitty Christmas – Nick Bruel
3. Disposable Minds, Expendable People – C. G. Rossi
4. Unearthly (Book 1) – Cynthia Hand – 2011 Debut
5. The Autumn Palace (Ondine #2) – Ebony McKenna

Did Not Finish: Cast in Chaos (Chronicles of Elantra, #6) – Michelle Sagara

TOTAL: 140 books!