{"id":1585,"date":"2012-01-04T00:47:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T00:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2014-07-12T21:54:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T20:54:22","slug":"books-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"BOOKS OF 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I was going to look back at the books I’d read last year, but everyone does that and why the hell would you be interested anyway? Instead, here’s a list of some of the books I’m looking forward to reading during 2012… any suggestions about what I might be missing are welcome.<\/p>\n

NOVELS<\/strong>
\nTaft 2012<\/em> – Jason Heller
\nBlueprints of the Afterlife<\/em> – Ryan Boudinot
\nThe Fat Years<\/em> – Chan Koonchung
\nRailsea<\/em> – China Mievelle
\nIntrusion<\/em> – Ken MacLeod (I noticed Niall Harrison already has this<\/a>. This does not make me happy!)
\nEmpty Space: A Space Adventure<\/em> – M John Harrison
\nBlue Remembered Earth<\/em> – Alastair Reynolds
\n2312<\/em> – Kim Stanley Robinson
\nIn the Mouth of a Whale<\/em> – Paul McAuley
\nTransmission<\/em> – John Meaney
\nJack Glass<\/em> – Adam Roberts
\nThe Apocalypse Codex<\/em> – Charles Stross
\nLong Earth<\/em> – Pratchett & Baxter
\nBlack Opera<\/em> – Mary Gentle
\nThe New Chris Priest (Adjacent<\/em>?) – I think I read this was coming out in 2012…
\nThe Outcast Blade<\/em> – Jon Courtenay Grimwood
\nSharps<\/em> – KJ Parker<\/p>\n

HISTORY<\/strong>
\nDividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander’s Great Empire<\/em> – Robin Waterfield
\nAlexander’s Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors<\/em> – Joseph Roisman
\nThe Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander<\/em> – James S. Romm
\nThe Spartan Army<\/em> (Stackpole Military History) – J. F. Lazenby
\nAncient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History<\/em> – Prof Sarah B. Pomeroy et al
\nMoney, Labour and Land: Approaches to the Economics of Ancient Greece<\/em> – Paul Cartledge, Edward E. Cohen and Lin Foxhall
\nThe End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome<\/em> – Christopher Kelly<\/p>\n

POLITICS<\/strong>
\nLast Myth: What the Rise of Apocalyptic Thinking Tells Us about America<\/em> – M Barrett Gross and Mel Giles
\nNews on the Internet: Information and Citizenship in the 21st Century<\/em> – David Tewksbury and Jason Rittenberg
\nPolitics and the Emotions: The Affective Turn in Contemporary Political Studies<\/em> – Simon Thompson and Paul Hoggett
\nDefending Politics: Why Democracy Matters in the 21st Century<\/em> – Matthew Flinders
\nEssays on Neuroscience and Political Theory: Thinking the Body Politic<\/em> – F. Vander Valk
\nMarx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze<\/em> – Simon Choat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I was going to look back at the books I’d read last year, but everyone does that and why the hell would you be interested anyway? Instead, here’s a list of some of the books I’m looking forward to reading during 2012… any suggestions about what I might be missing are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20],"tags":[70,69],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27AP7-pz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}