The 100 Books I Read This Year

Goodreads has a Challenge where you can set reading goals each year.  Last year I discovered it half way through so I only set a goal of 40 books, which I more than reached. This year, I decided to set a goal of 100. I finished today, with my first Honorverse and David Weber book, a real page turner. I read these for various reasons: 52 for chat guest interviews, some for other interviews, some for market research, a few for writing craft, a few for fun and pure interest. In any case, I did some great and varied reading this year. Here are the covers for all the books I read in Goodreads’ Reading Challenge for 2012:

On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)CitizensLance of Earth and Sky (The Chaos Knight, #2)Blowback (Retrieval Artist, #9)Seven Wonders
God's War (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #1)The Creative Fire (Ruby's Song #1)The Halls Of Stormweather (Forgotten Realms: Sembia, #1)Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette EscadrilleIndustry Talk
Flash PointBeggars in SpainBroken Blade (Fallen Blade, #1)Starbridge (Starbridge, Book 1)The Tears of the Singers (Star Trek, #19)
InkThe Monster HuntersTheft of Swords (The Riyria Revelations, #1-2)Han Solo at Star's End: From the Adventures of Luke SkywalkerExploits: The Chronicles of Lucifer Jones Volume II
The Hutt Gambit (Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy, #2)The Paradise Snare (Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy, #1)The Whitefire Crossing (Shattered Sigil, #1)Crosscurrent (Star Wars)Little Giant--Big Trouble (Dragon Slayers' Academy, #19)
March Of The Ankylosaurus (Dinosaur Cove)The Magic School Bus to the Rescue: Forest FireCharge Of The Triceratops (Dinosaur Cove)Frog and Toad Are Friends (Frog and Toad, #1)Attack Of The Tyrannosaurus (Dinosaur Cove)
Ecko RisingImmortal Hope (The Curse of the Templars, #1)Adventures (The Chronicles of Lucifer Jones, #1)Dragon Slayers' Academy the New Kid at School/Revenge of the Dragon Lady: 1 & 2 (Dragon Slayers' Academy 1 and 2)Hail! Hail! Camp Dragononka (Dragon Slayers' Academy, #17)
Kitty Steals the Show (Kitty Norville, #10)Lightbringer (Lightbringer, #1)Starters (Starters and Enders, #1)The Cat (Sons of Destiny, #5)How to Write Magical Words: A Writer's Companion
Born of BloodDarwen Arkwright and the Peregrine PactThe Mask of AtreusA Soldier's Duty (Theirs Not to Reason Why, #1)The Winds of Khalakovo (Lays of Anuskaya, #1)
Blood on the MinkThe Hammer and the BladeLibriomancer (Magic Ex Libris, #1)Thieftaker (Thieftaker Chronicles, #1)Darth Vader and Son
The Sword-Edged Blonde (Eddie LaCrosse, #1)Reaper (Lightbringer, #2)Sword of Fire and Sea (The Chaos Knight, #1)Fighting GravityOrion and King Arthur (Orion, #6)
Wide OpenLeviathan Wakes (Expanse, #1)The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)Judgment at Proteus (Quadrail, #5)The Skybound Sea (Aeons' Gate, #3)
Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock, #1)The Caves of SteelTriggersShadow's Son (Shadow Saga, #1)Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)
The Science of Science Fiction WritingA Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)WWW: Wake (WWW, #1)Master of Devils (Pathfinder Tales)Prince of Wolves
The Domino Pattern (Quadrail, #4)Sins of the Son (Grigori Legacy, #2)Glamour in Glass (Glamourist Histories #2)Sins of the Angels (Grigori Legacy, #1)Carpathia
Old Tin SorrowsSeven PrincesDead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)Wars: The Battle of Phobos (Vol.1) - Preludes
The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction: 6 Steps to Writing and Publishing Your Bestseller!Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (Pathfinder RPG)Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide: A 4th Edition D&D SupplementPathfinder Chronicles: Campaign Setting (Pathfinder Chronicles)Machine
Subversion: Science Fiction & Fantasy Tales of Challenging the NormEmpire StateThe January Dancer (The January Dancer, #1)The Truce at Bakura (Star Wars)Making Waves
Control Point (Shadow Ops, #1)Count to a TrillionThrone of the Crescent Moon (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, #1)CassafireFirst Meetings in Ender's Universe (Ender's Saga, #0.5)
A War of Gifts (Ender's Saga, #5)EarthboundShadows in Flight (Shadow, #5)Arctic RisingAnniversary Day (A Retrieval Artist Novel, #8)

Worker Prince frontBryan Thomas Schmidt is the editor of Blue Shift Magazine and an author and editor of adult and children’s speculative fiction. His debut novel, The Worker Prince (2011) received Honorable Mention on Barnes & Noble Book Club’s Year’s Best Science Fiction Releases for 2011. A sequel The Returning followed in 2012 and The Exoduswill appear in 2013, completing the space opera Saga Of Davi Rhii. His first children’s books, 102 More Hilarious Dinosaur Jokes For Kids (ebook only) and Abraham Lincoln: Dinosaur Hunter- Land Of Legends from Delabarre Publishing.  His short stories have appeared in magazines, anthologies and online. He edited the anthology Space Battles: Full Throttle Space Tales #6 (2012) and is working on Beyond The Sun for Fairwood Press (July 2013), headlined by Robert Silverberg, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Mike Resnick and Nancy Kress, and Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera For a New Age for Every Day Publishing (November 2013). He hosts #sffwrtcht (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writer’s Chat) Wednesdays at 9 pm ET on Twitter and is an affiliate member of the SFWA.