Books Ron read in 2012

• Book titles link to the work's page on LibraryThing.
• Angle brackets (>>>) indicate a book from the ReadingPlan.
• The number at the end of an entry indicates how far "down" or "up" I am in "bucket books" since I committed to read at least as many books from my ReadingPlan as not.

See also BooksRonRead.

1. The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband, David Finch, 2012, 18 Jan (down 2)
2. Writing a Novel with Scrivener, David Hewson, 2011, 20 Jan (down 3)
3. >>> Game Frame: Using Games as a Strategy for Success, Aaron Dignan, 2011, 21 Jan (not to be conflated with my project GameFrame) (down 2)
4. >>> A Journey Round My Room: Followed By A Nocturnal Expedition In The Same Regions, Xavier de Maistre, 1825, 25 Jan (down 1)
5. >>> Mental Traps, Andre Kukla, 29 Jan (worth rereading; reread soon)
6. >>> Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939, 5 Feb (worth rereading; up 1)
7. Ready Player One, Ernest Cline, 2011, 14 Feb
8. Distrust That Particular Flavor, William Gibson, 2012, 17 Feb (down 1)
9. The Iron Man, Ted Hughes, 1968, 20 Feb (down 2)
10. >>> The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time?, Jason Hartley, 2010, 2 Mar (down 1)
11. On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt, 2005, 10 Mar (reread; down 2)
12. >>> Playing to Win: Becoming the Champion, David Sirlin, 2006, 13 Mar (down 1)
13. Making History, Stephen Fry, 1996, 29 Mar (down 2)
14. >>> Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing, Ian Bogost, 2012, 9 Apr (down 1)
15. >>> The Walrus and the Warwolf (Chronicles of an Age of Darkness 4), Hugh Cook, 1988, 9 Apr
16. Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form, Anna Anthropy, 2012, 11 Apr (down 1)
17. We Are All Weird, Seth Godin, 2011, 12 Apr (down 2; did not enjoy)
18. >>> No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days, Chris Baty, 2004, 13 Apr (down 1)
19. The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies), Jimmy Maher, 2012, 2 May (down 2)
20. >>> The Worm Ouroboros, E. R. Eddison, 1922, 6 May (down 1)
21. Dream Journal, William Poundstone, 2011, 11 May (down 2)
22. Third Class Superhero, Charles Yu, 2006, 12 May (down 3)
23. Roadside Picnic, Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky, 2012, 23 May (down 4)
24. Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas, John Scalzi, 2012, 6 Jun (down 5)
25. Citation Needed: The Best of Wikipedia's Worst Writing, Conor Lastowka & Josh Fruhlinger, 2011, 10 Jun (down 6!)
26. How to Do Things with Videogames, Ian Bogost, 2011, 14 Jun (down 7)
27. Inverted World, Christopher Priest, 1974, 16 Jun (down 8)
28. Commodork: Sordid Tales from a BBS Junkie, Rob O'Hara, 2008, 17 Jun (down 9; oh, to hell with it)
29. Constellation Games, Leonard Richardson, 2012, 18 Jun
30. Constellation Games, Leonard Richardson, 2012, 26 Jun (reread)
31. The Long Earth, Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter, 2012, 30 Jun
32. Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story, Jim Holt, 2012, 26 July
33. A Commodore 64 Walkabout, Robinson Mason, 2011, 27 July
34. Year Zero: A Novel, Rob Reid, 2012, 2 Aug
35. Meet the Raspberry Pi, Gareth Halfacree and Eben Upton, 2012, 9 Aug
36. Memories of the Future - Volume 1, Wil Wheaton, 2011, 11 Aug
37. The Status Civilization, Robert Sheckley, 1960, 11 Aug
38. Starfish, Peter Watts, 1999, 28 Aug
39. The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing, John Perry, 2012, 7 Sep
40. Maelstrom, Peter Watts, 2001, 12 Sep
41. Behemoth: B-Max and Behemoth: Seppuku, Peter Watts, 2004, 22 Sep
42. The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations, Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, 2012, 2 Oct
43. The Stranger, Albert Camus, 1946, 3 Oct (reread)
44. Dimension of Miracles, Robert Sheckley, 1968, 6 Oct
45. Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions, Eric Maisel and Ann Maisel, 2010, 9 Oct
46. Among Others, Jo Walton, 2010, 16 Oct
47. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel, Robin Sloan, 2012, 17 Oct
48. Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time, David Brin et al., 2006, 18 Oct
49. The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days: A Novel, Ian Frazier, 2012, 23 Oct
50. The City & The City, China Miéville, 2009, 27 Oct (reread)
51. >>> Hav, Jan Morris, 2007, 1 Nov
52. Feed, M. T. Anderson, 2012, 2 Nov
53. How To Make An Ebook, Rudy Rucker, 2012, 3 Nov (short)
54. The Phoenix and the Mirror, Avram Davidson, 1983, 11 Nov
55. >>> The Eternal Flame, Greg Egan, 2012, 13 Nov
56. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon, 1995, 16 Nov
57. Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, Jon Ronson, 2012, 23 Nov
58. The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix Jones: And the Less Amazing Adventures of Some Other Real-Life Superheroes, Jon Ronson, 2011, 26 Nov (short)
59. >>> The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications, David Deutsch, 1998, 26 Nov
60. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Ian Fleming, 1964, 28 Nov (reread; read aloud to Marty)
61. Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years, Geoffrey Nunberg, 2012, 29 Nov
62. Vergil in Averno, Avram Davidson, 1986, 30 Nov
63. Dark Lord of Derkholm, Diana Wynne Jones, 2001, 6 Dec
64. Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl, 1946, 8 Dec (reread)
65. Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us, Allen Salkin, 2008, 8 Dec
66. >>> Moby-Dick, Herman Melville, 1851, 14 Dec
67. The Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi, 2010, 21 Dec
68. The Cats of Copenhagen, James Joyce, 2012, 24 Dec
69. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores, Jen Campbell, 2012, 25 Dec