Books I read in 2010
01. From Hell - Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
02. The Prince and Other Writings - Niccolo Machiavelli
03. Songbook - Nick Hornby
04. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
05. Exit Ghost - Philip Roth
06. Aesop's Fables - Aesop
07. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
08. Pinball - Jerzy Kosinski
09. This Is Water - David Foster Wallace
10. You Better Not Cry: Stories For Christmas - Augusten Burroughs
11. Firestarter - Stephen King
12. Next - Michael Crichton
13. The Book Thief - Markus Zukas
14. The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend And I Decided To Go Get Pregnant - Dan Savage
15. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
16. Elliot Smith's XO - Matthew Lemay
17. The Gates - John Connolly
18. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
19. Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures - Chris Ott
20. The Rock Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon Of Rockological Knowledge - David Kamp and Steven Daly
21. Tell-All - Chuck Palahniuk
22. Pincher Martin - William Golding
23. The Crying Of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
24. Watership Down - Richard Adams
25. The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out Of Their Minds Or Ahead Of Their Time? - Jason Hartley
26. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being - Milan Kundera
27. The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
28. The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground And Nico - Joe Harvard
29. The Film Club: A Memoir - David Gilmour
30. I Was Told There'd Be Cake - Sloane Crosley
31. The Partly Cloudy Patriot - Sarah Vowell
32. Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell
33. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life - Steve Martin
34. Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer
35. A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
36. Radiohead's OK Computer - Dai Griffiths
37. The Year Of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
38. Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account Of Nazi Experiments On Humans - Vivien Spitz
39. The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
40. I Drink For A Reason - David Cross
41. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
42. Drown - Junot Diaz
43. The Wild Boys: A Book Of The Dead - William S. Burroughs
44. White Fang - Jack London
45. A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
46. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man and Dubliners - James Joyce
47. The Devil In The White City - Murder, Magic, And Madness At The Fair That Changed America - Erik Larson
48. Hot Water Music - Charles Bukowski
49. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
50. Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
51. Imperial Bedrooms - Bret Easton Ellis
52. Indignation - Philip Roth
53. The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
54. Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth
55. V For Vendetta - Alan Moore and David Lloyd
56. Heart Of Darkness And Selected Short Fiction - Joseph Conrad
57. The Wild Things - Dave Eggers
58. The Sorrows Of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
59. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee
60. Community: The Structure Of Belonging - Peter Block
61. A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway
62. Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, And Some Other Things That Aren't As Scary, Maybe, Depending On How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures From The Sky, Parents Who Disappear In Peru, A Man Named Lars Farf, And One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out - McSweeney's
63. The Sound Of Waves - Yukio Mishima
64. The Lost Continent: Travels In Small-Town America - Bill Bryson
65. First, Break All The Rules: What The World's Greatest Managers Do Differently - Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
66. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
67. Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide To Thriving At Work - Tamara J. Erickson
68. Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel - Truman Capote
69. Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence Of Probabilities And Statistics On Everything You Do - Kaiser Fung
70. Orbiting The Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide To Surviving With Grace - Gordon MacKenzie
STATS:
Total number of books read: 70
New (read for the first time): 69
Rereads: 1 (Huck Finn)
Most read author: Philip Roth (3)
Authors read more than once: Capote (2), Joyce (2), Roth (3), Vowell (2)
Number of books that feature vampires: 0
Fastest read: Fun Home, This Is Water, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Slowest read: Les Miserables, The Book Thief
Favorite: Aesop's Fables, Drown, In Cold Blood, Les Miserables, The Sound Of Waves, Watership Down
Least favorite: The Gate, The Lost Continent, The Rock Snob's Dictionary
02. The Prince and Other Writings - Niccolo Machiavelli
03. Songbook - Nick Hornby
04. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
05. Exit Ghost - Philip Roth
06. Aesop's Fables - Aesop
07. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
08. Pinball - Jerzy Kosinski
09. This Is Water - David Foster Wallace
10. You Better Not Cry: Stories For Christmas - Augusten Burroughs
11. Firestarter - Stephen King
12. Next - Michael Crichton
13. The Book Thief - Markus Zukas
14. The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend And I Decided To Go Get Pregnant - Dan Savage
15. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
16. Elliot Smith's XO - Matthew Lemay
17. The Gates - John Connolly
18. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
19. Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures - Chris Ott
20. The Rock Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon Of Rockological Knowledge - David Kamp and Steven Daly
21. Tell-All - Chuck Palahniuk
22. Pincher Martin - William Golding
23. The Crying Of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
24. Watership Down - Richard Adams
25. The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out Of Their Minds Or Ahead Of Their Time? - Jason Hartley
26. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being - Milan Kundera
27. The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
28. The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground And Nico - Joe Harvard
29. The Film Club: A Memoir - David Gilmour
30. I Was Told There'd Be Cake - Sloane Crosley
31. The Partly Cloudy Patriot - Sarah Vowell
32. Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell
33. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life - Steve Martin
34. Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer
35. A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
36. Radiohead's OK Computer - Dai Griffiths
37. The Year Of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
38. Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account Of Nazi Experiments On Humans - Vivien Spitz
39. The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
40. I Drink For A Reason - David Cross
41. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
42. Drown - Junot Diaz
43. The Wild Boys: A Book Of The Dead - William S. Burroughs
44. White Fang - Jack London
45. A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
46. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man and Dubliners - James Joyce
47. The Devil In The White City - Murder, Magic, And Madness At The Fair That Changed America - Erik Larson
48. Hot Water Music - Charles Bukowski
49. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
50. Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
51. Imperial Bedrooms - Bret Easton Ellis
52. Indignation - Philip Roth
53. The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
54. Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth
55. V For Vendetta - Alan Moore and David Lloyd
56. Heart Of Darkness And Selected Short Fiction - Joseph Conrad
57. The Wild Things - Dave Eggers
58. The Sorrows Of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
59. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee
60. Community: The Structure Of Belonging - Peter Block
61. A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway
62. Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, And Some Other Things That Aren't As Scary, Maybe, Depending On How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures From The Sky, Parents Who Disappear In Peru, A Man Named Lars Farf, And One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out - McSweeney's
63. The Sound Of Waves - Yukio Mishima
64. The Lost Continent: Travels In Small-Town America - Bill Bryson
65. First, Break All The Rules: What The World's Greatest Managers Do Differently - Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
66. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
67. Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide To Thriving At Work - Tamara J. Erickson
68. Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel - Truman Capote
69. Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence Of Probabilities And Statistics On Everything You Do - Kaiser Fung
70. Orbiting The Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide To Surviving With Grace - Gordon MacKenzie
STATS:
Total number of books read: 70
New (read for the first time): 69
Rereads: 1 (Huck Finn)
Most read author: Philip Roth (3)
Authors read more than once: Capote (2), Joyce (2), Roth (3), Vowell (2)
Number of books that feature vampires: 0
Fastest read: Fun Home, This Is Water, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Slowest read: Les Miserables, The Book Thief
Favorite: Aesop's Fables, Drown, In Cold Blood, Les Miserables, The Sound Of Waves, Watership Down
Least favorite: The Gate, The Lost Continent, The Rock Snob's Dictionary