2012 Reading Round up …

From a reading perspective, the year that was 2012 proved to be a pretty fantastic year.

With 33 Novels and more than 300 short stories and around 25 novellas … an awesome reading score of around 365 for the year …

Short Story Collections (Approx. 305 Stories – including the 7 novellas):

1.      Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul at Work by Juhi, Mark & Victor (101 stories) 

2.      Best of Satyajit Ray by Satyajit Ray (21 stories)

3.      The Mysterious Traveler Magazine (6 Editions – 36 stories)

4.      Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection (Remaining 16 Short Stories + 1 Novella)

5.      The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr (12)

6.      The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes by Various Authors edited by Ellery Queen (33)

7.      Several Short and Long Stories by Philip K Dick (40 + 3 stories)

8.      Several Short and Long Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (31 + 3 stories)

9.      Short Story Collection: Love, Peace and Happiness by Rituraj Verma (9 stories)

Novels (36)

1.      Myth = Mithya by Devdutt Pattanaik

2.      Sign of the Cross by Chris Kuzneski

3.      Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves by Matthew Reilly

4.      The Reluctant Detective by Kiran Manral

5.      Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell

6.      A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

7.      Scammed: Confessions of a Confused Accountant by Anonymous

8.      Point of Origin by Patricia Cornwell

9.      Trevayne by Robert Ludlum

10.  The All Bengali Crime Detectives by Suparna Chatterjee 

11.  The Gemini Contenders by Robert Ludlum

12.  Velocity by Dean Koontz

13.  The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

14.  The Mayan Conspiracy by Steve Alten

15.  Of Course, I Love you by Durjoy Dutta & Maanvi Ahuja

16.  Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer

17.  The Dark Prophecy by Anthony Zuiker with Duane Swierczynski

18.  The Clockwork Man by William Jablonsky

19.  The Mayan Resurrection by Steve Alten

20.  The Holcroft Covanent by Robert Ludlum

21.  Three Mistakes of My Life by Chetan Bhagat

22.  The Mayan Destiny by Steve Alten

23.  The Death Relic by Chris Kuzneski

24.  Fractured Legend by Kranthi Askani

25.  Untruly Yours by Smita Shetty 

26.  The Krishna Key by Ashwin Sanghi

27.  The Shadow Throne by Aroon Raman

28.  Red Jihad by Sami Ahmad Khan

29.  The Bankster by Ravi Subramanian

30.  Collision of Dimension by M V Ravi Shanker

31.  The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz (New Sherlock Novel)

32.  The Edge of the Machete by Abhisar Sharma

33.  Once Upon the Tracks of Mumbai by Rishi Vohra

Book Reviews: Out of the 33 above; 15 came to me for Book Review – 10 from the Blog Adda Bok Review Program and remaining 5 came directly from Authors or the Publishers with the Book Review request.

Novellas: Adding to the above novels list … there were 4 short novels by Arthur Conan Doyle (ACD) + 3 by Philip K. Dick (PKD) + 18 from the Three Investigator series by a mix of 3 authors  = 25 Novellas  

Hope 2013 turns out to be yet another good / great / awesome year for reading for me.