My singular resolution for 2012 is to recommit to my passion for reading. Like many, I’ve slacked along the way. This summer I read a host of great books. This year, I’m going to read a minimum of 1 book per month, my #12in12List. Below is the list which I compiled based upon the recommendations of peers and a little personal research.

January- The Warmth of Other Suns (Isabel Wilkerson)

February- Native Son (Richard Wright)

March- The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)

April- B!@$h is the New Black (Helena Andrews)

May- MWF Seeking BFF (Rachel Bertsche) 

June- The Four Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett) 

July- White Oleander (Janet Fitch)

August- Mirror to America (John Hope Franklin)

September- Brothers and Me (Donna Britt)

October- How the Irish Became White (Noel Ignatiev)

November- The Perks of Being a Wall Flower (Stephen Chbosky)

December- Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)

Additional reads if I have time:

~The Measure of a Man (Sidney Poitier)

~The Bean Trees (Barbara Kingsolver)

~Absalom Absalom! (William Faulkner)

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