Books 2010
Last year's list, for posterity.
I really love keeping these lists, they're so much fun to look over at the end of the year. It is really shocking how much I forget that I've actually read.
* indicates a re-read
If I get round to writing a GoodReads review it will be linked.
This year I'm going to do the listing a little differently, putting in a category/ genre bit. Exciting, eh?I just think it might be interesting for me to see a bit more about my reading habits too. I dunno, I'm a geek.
1: The Black Death: The Intimate Story of a Village in Crisis, 1345 - 1350 by John Hatcher [non-fiction > history] | Review
2: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko [fiction > contemporary > Native - American] | Review
3: Tonto and The Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie [fiction > contemporary > short stories > Native - American]
4: Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft [fiction > pre-1830 > polemic]
5: The Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Mary Hays [fiction > pre 1830] | Review
6: Belinda by Maria Edgeworth [fiction > pre 1830]
7: Erasure by Percival Everett [fiction > contemporary > African- American]
8: Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao [fiction > contemporary > Asian-American]
9: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison [fiction > contemporary > African-American]
10. Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella [fiction > contemporary > Chick-Lit]
11. Home by Marilynne Robinson [fiction > contemporary > literary]
12. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros [fiction > contemporary> Chicana]
13. The Ghost of John Wayne by Ray Gonzalez [fiction > contemporary > Chicano]
14. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood [fiction > contemporary]
15. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston [creative non-fiction > memoir]
16. Landscapes of Memory by Ruth Kluger [creative non-fiction > memoir]
17. Suite Francaise by Irene Nerimovsky [fiction]
18. Living Dolls by Natasha Walter [non-fiction > feminism]
19. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace [fiction > contemporary / literary > short stories]
20. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides [fiction > contemporary]
21. Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
22. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
23. The City & The City by China Mieville
24. Inversions by Iain M Banks
25. Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
I really love keeping these lists, they're so much fun to look over at the end of the year. It is really shocking how much I forget that I've actually read.
* indicates a re-read
If I get round to writing a GoodReads review it will be linked.
This year I'm going to do the listing a little differently, putting in a category/ genre bit. Exciting, eh?I just think it might be interesting for me to see a bit more about my reading habits too. I dunno, I'm a geek.
1: The Black Death: The Intimate Story of a Village in Crisis, 1345 - 1350 by John Hatcher [non-fiction > history] | Review
2: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko [fiction > contemporary > Native - American] | Review
3: Tonto and The Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie [fiction > contemporary > short stories > Native - American]
4: Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft [fiction > pre-1830 > polemic]
5: The Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Mary Hays [fiction > pre 1830] | Review
6: Belinda by Maria Edgeworth [fiction > pre 1830]
7: Erasure by Percival Everett [fiction > contemporary > African- American]
8: Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao [fiction > contemporary > Asian-American]
9: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison [fiction > contemporary > African-American]
10. Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella [fiction > contemporary > Chick-Lit]
11. Home by Marilynne Robinson [fiction > contemporary > literary]
12. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros [fiction > contemporary> Chicana]
13. The Ghost of John Wayne by Ray Gonzalez [fiction > contemporary > Chicano]
14. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood [fiction > contemporary]
15. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston [creative non-fiction > memoir]
16. Landscapes of Memory by Ruth Kluger [creative non-fiction > memoir]
17. Suite Francaise by Irene Nerimovsky [fiction]
18. Living Dolls by Natasha Walter [non-fiction > feminism]
19. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace [fiction > contemporary / literary > short stories]
20. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides [fiction > contemporary]
21. Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
22. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
23. The City & The City by China Mieville
24. Inversions by Iain M Banks
25. Time's Arrow by Martin Amis