50 Book Challenge - 2012 Round Up

Hey Buzznet!

As you all probably know by now, my goal was to read 50 books, and write a review for each one, this year. It seemed like a daunting task, but I knew I could do it. Not only did I reach my goal of 50 books, I exceeded it!

So here are my stats from GoodReads! I read 13101 pages, give or take. Some of these page numbers included notes and references that I didn't read so it could be less, and some of the books had different version so they have more or less pages, but still! It also includes a very general rating of all the books read.

So, I've read a great mix of books; philosophy, sociology, important novels, and some small books no one's ever heard of. I've found a few flops and a few new favorites too. Instead of going through them all again, I'll just link you to each review if you're interested and bold my favorites!

I want to thank everyone who followed along and read my reviews. I had a lot of reading all of these books and fun reviewing them when I had time.

1. Spongebob Squarepants and Philosophy: Soaking Up Secrets Under The Sea - Joseph Foy (Editor)
2. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
3. The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy: Wicked Wisdom of the West - Randall Auxier (Editor)
4. Geek Girls Unite - Leslie Simon
5. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
6. Phaedo - Plato
7. Godless - Pete Hautman
8. Utopia - Thomas More
9. Eating the Dinosaur - Chuck Klosterman
10. Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
11. On Bullshit - Harry Frankfurt
12. Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk
13. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove - Christopher Moore
14. Republic - Plato
15. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
16. Self-Made Man: A Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again - Norah Vincent
17. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
18. Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die For - Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (Editor)
19. Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture - Kaya Oakes
20. Model Behavior - Jay McInerney
21. The Age of Missing Information - Bill McKibben
22. Pop Salvation - Lance Reynald
23. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
24. Symposium - Plato
25. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
26. Gorgias - Plato
27. Animal Farm - George Orwell
28. Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, and Everything in Between - Thomas Cathcart
29. About a Boy - Nick Hornby
30. Evil: An Investigation - Lance Morrow
31. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion/The Natural History of Religion - David Hume (I wrote a review for this, but soon after posting it, it disappeared and I didn't care enough to rewrite it.)
32. The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
33. How I Paid For College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater - Mark Acito
34. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
35. The Adventures of Captain Underpants - Dav Pilkey
36. Breakfast With Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day - Robert Rowland Smith
37. Every Thing On It - Shel Seilverstein
38. On Education - Harry Brighouse
39. The Prince - Machiavelli
40. A Guide To Writing Sociology Papers - Sociology Writing Group
41. The Basics of Social Research - Earl Robert Babbie
42. A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold
43. The X-Files and Philosophy - Dean Kowalski
44. MirrorMask - Neil Gaiman
45. Statistics: A Tool for Social Research - Joseph Healey
46. Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations - Michael Walzer
47. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - Sam Harris
48. Herland: A Lost Feminist Utopian Novel - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
49. The 13 Clocks - James Thurber
50. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
51. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
52. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
53. The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
54. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx

Have you read any of the books on my list? What were your favorite books that you read this year?