Books I Read in 2012

Since I didn't read a single book published in 2012 save for a short story, I decided to rank all the books - no matter their publishing date - that I read during that calendar year. It didn't matter if I read them for the first time or not.

1. Dubliners by James Joyce (1914) (Short Stories) - A+
2. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859) (Novel) - A+
3. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851) (Novel) - A+
4. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929) (Novel) - A+
5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916) (Novel) - A+
6. Richard III by William Shakespeare (Play) - A+
7. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937) (Novel) - A+
8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) (Novel) - A
9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) (Novel) - A
10. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1862) (Novel) - A-
11. Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667) (Epic Poem) - A-
12. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (2011) (Novel) - B+
13. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (1939) (Novel) - B+
14. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1902) (Novella) - B+
15. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2005) (Novel) - B+
16. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard (1966) (Play) - B+
17. Stephen Hero by James Joyce (1944) (Unfinished Novel) - B+
18. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1895) (Play) - B+
19. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920) (Novel) - B+
20. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939) (Novel) - B
21. Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare (Play) - B
22. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1845) (Novel) - B
23. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1953) (Play) - B
24. The Divine Comedy by Dante (1321) (Epic Poem) - B
25. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (2009) (Novel) - B
26. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (Play) - B
27. Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (1925) (Novel) - B
28. The Culture of James Joyce's Ulysses by R. Brandon Kershner (Nonfiction) - B
29. Henry VI Part III by William Shakespeare (Play) - B
30. Cane by Jean Toomer (1923) (Poems, Short Stories) - B
31. The Cats of Copenhagen by James Joyce (2012) (Short Story) - B
32. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (1952) (Novel) - B
33. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (1974) (Novel) - B-
34. New York by Edward Rutherfurd (2009) (Novel) - B-
35. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) (Novel) - B-
36. The Leopard by Jo Nesbo (2011) (Novel) - B-
37. The Gothic by David Punter and Glennis Byron (2004) (Nonfiction) - B-
38. The Tiger in the Smoke by Mary Allingham (1952) (Novel) - B-
39. I, Claudius by Robert Grave (1934) (Novel) - B-
40. Hitchcock as Philosopher by Robert J. Yanal (2005) (Nonfiction) - B-
41. Henry VI Part II by William Shakespeare (Play) - B-
42. 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion by Morgan Llywelyn (1998) (Novel) - B-
43. Henry VI Part I by William Shakespeare (Play) - B-
44. The Day of the Jackal by John Forsyth (1971) (Novel) - B-
45. The Monk by Matthew Lewis (1796) (Novel) - C+
46. The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (Play) - C
47. Mr. Monk in Outer Space by Lee Goldberg (2007) (Novel) - C
48. For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming (1960) (Short Stories) - C-
49. Drood by Dan Simmons (2009) (Novel) - D
50. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (1959) (Novel) - D
51. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951) (Novel) - F