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Read Odd Books

Books I’ve Read in 2012

1.  The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World’s Most Perplexing Cold Cases by Michael Capuzzo

2. Blue Nights by Joan Didion

3. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

4. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

5. In the Realms of the Unreal, edited by John G. H. Oakes

6. The Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell

7. Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness by Pete Early

8. The Strange Case of Edward Gorey by Alexander Theroux

9. Angry Women, RE/Search #13*

10. Portobello Road by Ruth Rendell

11. Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case by Debbie Nathan

12. Just Kids by Patti Smith

13. God’s Lunatics by Michael Largo **

14. Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman

15. Eyeballs Growing All Over Me… Again by Tony Rauch

16. Her Last Death: A Memoir by Susanna Sonnenberg

17. I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You’ve Ever Heard by Tom Reynolds

18.  The Cannibal’s Guide to Ethical Living by Mykle Hansen

19.  Hunger by Knut Hamsun ***

20.  The Ends of Our Tethers by Alasdair Gray ***

21. The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout, Ph.D

22. Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk

23. Take the Long Way Home by Brian Keene

24. Oikos by Adam Moorad

25. Clinical, Brutal: An Anthology of Writing with Guts, edited by Christopher Nosnibor

26. Talking with Serial Killers: The Most Evil People in the World Tell Their Own Stories by Christopher Berry-Dee

27. Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend by Barbara Oakley

* technically an odd book but the content is so dated it would be a largely uninteresting book discussion
** stopped reading because of gross inaccuracies
*** reread because I waited too long to discuss the book and needed to refresh my memory

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