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Save your resolutions for your never new year

That's a line from Bottle It Up by Sara Bareilles, which, for a while, has been my message tone. Anyhoo, this blog isn't going to be about my resolutions for 2012. Oh, I have resolutions but I won't post them. Instead, I've decided to make lists.

2012 is for 12 Books a Year List:
  • January - Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
  • February - The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
  • March - Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
  • April - Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
  • May - A Game of Thrones (George R. R. Martin)
  • June - Tess of the D'urbevilles (Thomas Hardy)
  • July - Drive (James Sallis)
  • August - The Marvelous Land of Oz (L. Frank Baum) The Awakening and Other Stories (Kate Chopin)
  • September - Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
  • October - Animal Farm (George Orwell)
  • November - Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) Candide (Voltaire)
  • December - Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie) The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)

UPDATED: 01/21/2012 Replaced The Marvelous Land of Oz with The Awakening and Other Stories, Catch-22 with Candide and Midnight's Children with The Metamorphosis
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