SATURDAY December 31st, will be a special edition of the Saturday Review of Books especially for booklists. You can link to a list of your favorite books read in 2011, a list of all the books you read in 2011, a list of the books you plan to read in 2012, or any other end of the year or beginning of the year list of books. Whatever your list, it’s time for book lists. So come back on Saturday, New Year’s Eve, to link to yours, if I missed it and it’s not already here.

However, I’ve spent the past couple of weeks gathering up all the lists I could find and linking to them here. I’ll be posting each day this week leading up to Saturday a selection of end-of-the-year lists with my own comments. I’m also trying my hand at (unsolicited) book advisory by suggesting some possibilities for 2012 reading for each blogger whose list I link. If I didn’t get your list linked ahead of time and if you leave your list in the linky on Saturday, I’ll try to advise you, too, in a separate post.

So Many Books: 2011 Reading in Review. Stefanie reads so many books that I’m not sure what to recommend for her. She read Bleak House in 2011 and enjoyed it, so I’ll say that my favorite Dickens novel is David Copperfield. I can see some of its flaws and still it’s a wonderful novel. I haven’t read it yet, but I wonder what Stefanie would think about P.D. James’s new take-off on Jane Austen, Death Comes to Pemberly?

The Reader Bee: Best Books of 2011. Wow, lots of vampires and zombies and YA romance here. Maybe Sara Zarr’s How To Save a Life? Or Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi?

Live, Learn, Love: Great Books Read in 2011. First of all, I suggest that Annette re-read that last book on her list, and I think I’ll join her. The Bible can always be profitably re-read. As for other book suggestions, I’m wondering if she’s read The Gammage Cup by Carolyn Kendall. It’s an older fantasy title that I’ve been wanting to recommend to someone, and since Annette has been enjoying children’s literature as well as adult books, I’ll give the endorsement to her. As for adult fiction, I think Annette would enjoy reading The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas (Biblical/historical fiction), Christy by Catherine Marshall, or The Passion of Mary-Margaret by Lisa Samson.

U Krakovianki: Highlights from 2010 (Books, of course) For Karen in Poland, something old and something new. Has she read Mila 18 by Leon Uris? It’s the fictionalized history of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. As for new, perhaps she would like one of the books on this list of dystopian fiction, since she’s “a glutton for a good dystopia.” I particularly recommend Divergent by Veronica Roth and The Declaration by Gemma Malley.

Let’s Eat Grandpa: 2011 End of the Year Book Survey. Some of her picks are books I love (The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis), and others are books I want to read (Doc by Mary Doria Russell). I’d suggest for Cori: C.S. Lewis’s science fiction trilogy, beginning with Out of the Silent Planet, Boys Without Names by Kashmira Sheth, Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy, and For the Win by Cory Doctorow.

Secrets and Sharing Soda Books of the Year. Katie likes House (The TV show) and children’s books and picture books and Young Adult books, and she and I worked together on the Easy Reader/Short Chapter Books Cybils panel. So we have lots of stuff in common. She read one of my favorite books this past, The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright, and she says she plans to read the rest of the books in the series. She also likes The Penderwicks, so I’m trying to think of a couple of books in that general vein. I think she’d like With a Name Like Love by Tess Hilmo, and All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor, and oh, go ahead and read The Hobbit. You’ll be glad you did.

Supratentorial: My Best Books of 2011. For Alice, a pediatrician and mother of three, I suggest The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer and The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon.

Magistra Mater: My 2011 Reading List. I want to read everything Carol has read, certainly everything that’s at the top of her “genre lists”. And I will venture to suggest for Carol The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas. Both are favorites of mine that I pulled from this list, but she may have already gotten around to reading them.

OK, that’s it for now folks. If I didn’t get your list linked in my six posts on reading lists, then leave a link in the Saturday Review linky. I’ll try to recommend some books for each person who links in the Saturday Review. It sounds like a lovely way to spend the first week or so of 2012.