I've ransacked my memory and bookshelves, and my Amazon account, and have come up with a list of the books I finished in 2012. It's barely 20 books, a good number of them from the Coursera course I took on science fiction and fantasy. I probably started and abandoned the same number, or perhaps more. And I cherry-picked chapters from others. Still, here are the ones I finished:

Fiction:

J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

Michel Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory

Richard Ford, Canada

Julian Barnes, Talking it Over

Ray Bradbury, Martian Chronicles

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Bram Stoker, Dracula

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Princess of Mars

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven

Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

Jane Brickley, Noise (not yet published)

Isaac Singer, The Slave

Non-Fiction

Robert Caro, The Passage to Power

Bill Bryson, At Home

Kenneth Slawenski, J.D. Salinger, A Life

John Vaillant, The Tiger

Dave Eggers, Zeitoun

Judith Miller, Mapusha and Me (not yet published)

Andrew Zolli and Anne Marie Healy, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

Tim Harford, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure

Stuart Firestein, Ignorance, How it Drives Science

Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans, Homo Evolutis, A Short Tour of a New Species

Books I plan to read in 2013

I'm already about a quarter of the way through Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, which I last read at age 23 (and remembered next to nothing). Then there are the Christmas presents, With Fire and Sword: the Battle of Bunker Hill, by James Nelson; When the World Spoke French, by Marc Fumaroli, and Periodic Tales, a Cultural History of the Elements, by Hugh Aldersey-Williams. I'm also looking forward to This Love is Not for Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juarez, by Robert Andrew Powell. And I just ordered a newish translation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, which was my favorite book in my 20s.