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Books I've Read in 2012

I read 102 books in 2012. Most of it was spurred by the Goodreads 'Reading Challenge'. I thought I will share the list, so that it gives you a sense of the kind of books that I typically read. So, here goes: 
  1. Senseless- Mary Burton
  2. The Marriage Bureau for Rich People- Farhad Zama
  3. The Last and Final Testament of the Holy Bible- James Frey
  4. Uglies- Scott Westerfeld 
  5. Bombay Rains and Bombay Girls- Anirban Basu
  6. Saraswati Park- Anjali Joseph
  7. Mirrorwork: An Anthology of Indian Writing from 1947 to 1997
  8. Norwegian Wood- Haruki Murakami
  9. How to say Goodbye- Sarah Dressen
  10. Mockingjay- Suzanne Collins
  11. The God of Small Things- Anundhati Roy
  12. Tower of Silence- Sarah Rayne
  13. Here Lies Bridget- Harbinson
  14. A Suitable Boy- Vikram Seth 
  15. I've got your Number- Sophie Kinsella
  16. The Lucky One- Nicholas Sparks 
  17. The Lost Years- Mary Higgins Clark
  18. The Secret History- Donna Tarte 
  19. Delirium- Lauren Oliver
  20. The Poisoned Arrow- Ibne Safi
  21. The Immortals of Meluha- Amish Tripathi
  22. The Secret of the Nagas-  "
  23. Bossy Pants- Tina Fey
  24. What Lies Beneath- Sarah Rayne 
  25. Em and the Big Hoom- Jerry Pinto 
  26. Debi Chaudharani- Bamkim Chandra Chatterjee 
  27. The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky 
  28. Fifty Shades of Grey- EL James
  29. Fifty Shades Darker- "
  30. Fifty Shades Freed- " 
  31. Entwined- Heather Dixon
  32. House of the Lost- Sarah Rayne 
  33. Ladies Coupe- Anita Nair
  34. Blindsighted- Karin Slaughter 
  35. Heat Wave- Richard Castle (hehe)
  36. Kafka on the Shore- Haruki Murakami
  37. The Woman who Flew- Nasreen Jahan
  38. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children- Ransom Riggs
  39. Paper Towns- John Green
  40. The Garden of Evening Mists- Tan Twang Eng
  41. Sputnik Sweetheart- Haruki Murakami
  42. Hereafter- Tara Hudson
  43. The Doll- Daphne Du Maurier
  44. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime- Mark Haddon
  45. Kisscut- Karin Slaughter 
  46. Spiderlight- Sarah Rayne 
  47. Bombay Duck is a Fish- Kanika Dhillon
  48. Divergent- Veronica Roth 
  49. The Snowman- Jo Nesbo
  50. Apartment 16- Adam Neville 
  51. Matched- Allie Condie 
  52. The Age of Shiva- Manil Suri
  53. House Rules- Jodi Piccoult 
  54. Last to Die- Tess Gerritsen
  55. The Silent Girl- "
  56. Beautiful Disaster- Jamie McGuire 
  57. The Poison Tree- Erin Kelly
  58. Trust Me- Rajashree 
  59. The Ugly Duchess- Eloise James 
  60. You Don't Want to Know- Lisa Jackson
  61. The Shroud and Other Stories- Munshi Premchand
  62. The Thirteenth Tale- Diane Sterrfeld
  63. Murder in Amravati- Sharath Komarraju 
  64. John Doe- Tess Gerritsen 
  65. Sita's Ramayana- Samhita Arni 
  66. A Pale View of Hills- Kazuo Ishiguro 
  67. The Wicked Girls- Alex Marwood
  68. The Cousins- Prema Raghunath
  69. The Life You Want- Emily Barr 
  70. Pretty Little Liars- Sara Shephard 
  71. The House of Leaves- MArk Z. Danielewski
  72. Tales from Malgudi- RK Narayan
  73. The Distant Hours- Kate Morton 
  74. Cut Like Wound- Anita Nair
  75. Beautiful Creatures- Kami Garcia and Margaret Strohl 
  76. The Reluctant Fundamentalist- Mohsin Hamid 
  77. The Fault in our Stars- John Green 
  78. The Secret of Ella and Micah- Jessica Sorenson 
  79. The Good Muslim- Tahmina Anam
  80. Anna and the French Kiss- Stephanie Perkins 
  81. Beautiful Darkness- Kami Garcia and Margaret Strohl 
  82. The Hate List- Jennifer Brown 
  83. Providence- Jamie McGuire 
  84. Honor Student- Teresa Mummert 
  85. The Secret Keeper- Kate Morton
  86. Pollyanna- Eleanor H Porter 
  87. Dark Places- Gillian Flynn
  88. Sharp Object- "
  89. Moth Smoke- Mohsin Hamid
  90. Victoria and the Rogue- Meg Cabot 
  91. Nicola and the Viscount- "
  92. When Darkness Falls and other stories- Ruskin Bond 
  93. A Season of Ghosts- Ruskin Bond
  94. Warm Bodies- Isaac Marion 
  95. Caught- Harlan Coben 
  96. One Night of Sin- Gaelen Foley 
  97. An Artist of the Free Floating World- Kazuo Ishiguro 
  98. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter- Seth Grahame- Smith 
  99. Fahrenhite 451- Ray Bradbury 
  100. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe- CS Lewis 
  101. Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia- "
  102. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader-"
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