I am a person who loves to make lists, so making reading lists is one of my favorite reading activities, outside of the actual reading itself.  I always keep a running list of what I intend (good intentions are the pathway to reading remorse, not hell) to read for each year, highlighting a book when I've finished it.  Yes, I get all giddy when I highlight a title.  Although we are well into the summer season, I am now ready to post my summer reading list.  Remember the good intentions and all.  The one guaranteed consistency about my reading lists is the constant alteration of them, but I do hope to read many of the following titles.  If I fail to accomplish reading any this summer, they will undoubtedly make it onto my fall or winter reading lists.  The addition of children's or teen titles is quite likely to this summer list.  I've included a few YA titles, but I haven't conferred with my 11-year-old granddaughter yet as to any buddy reads.  So for better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness or in health, I vow to read as many of the titles on my Summer Reading List for 2012 as possible.

 

Summer Reading List 2012

Dead Scared by S.J. Bolton

The Yard: A Novel by Alex Grecian

Perla by Carolina De Robertis

Canada by Richard Ford

The Technologists by Matthew Pearl

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

All About Emily by Connie Willis

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir by Anna Quindlen

Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

Night Watch by Linda Fairstein

The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

Last to Die by Tess Gerritsen

UnWholly by Neal Schusterman

100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson

Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King

Cemetery Girl by David Bell

The Reckoning by Alma Katsu

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
 Istanbul Passage: A Novel by Joseph Kanon