Bookin' It in 2012

I set a personal best this year -- reading the following 21 books in '12. The titles in bold were particularly influential, inspiring or interesting.

1.    Jonestown Survivor: An Insider’s Look - Laura Johnston Kohl 

2.    The Writing Life - Annie Dillard

3.    Happy Accidents - Jane Lynch

4.    Unfair: Why the "Christian" View of Gays Doesn't Work - John Shore

5.    Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative - Austin Kleon

6.    The Trouble With Poetry - Billy Collins

7.    Metropolitan Life - Fran Lebowitz

8.    The Living End: A Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving - Robert Leleux

9.    Gay Conversations with God: Straight Talk on Fanatics, Fags and the God Who Loves Us All - James Alexander Langteaux

10. Wittgenstein’s Lolita - William Gay

11. Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown

12. Freedom Is Blogging in Your Underwear - Hugh MacLeod

13. Poke the Box - Seth Godin

14. Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser - Rita Mae Brown

15. The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to Their Younger Selves - Sarah Moon

16. Patience With God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (or Atheism) - Frank Schaeffer

17. Blankets - Craig Thompson

18. Patience & Sarah - Isabel Miller

19. Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris

20. Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life - Michael Greenberg  

21. Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers - Anne Lamott