2010 Books Read List
If keeping spreadsheet of every book you read and every film you see in a year doesn't make you anal, I don't know what does:
January:
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King
IT - Stephen King
Our Town - Thornton Wilder
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
Stuff White People Like - Christian Lander
Revenge / The Stars' Tennis Balls - Stephen Fry
A Good School - Richard Yates
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
February:
The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks - William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Miracle on 34th Street - Valentine Davies
Sophie's Choice - William Styron
A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
Our Dumb World - The Onion
A Kiss Before Dying - Ira Levin
Moab is My Washpot - Stephen Fry
Another Country - James Baldwin
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
March
Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Push - Sapphire
Blood and Chocolate - Annette Curtis Klause
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
Equal Rights - Terry Pratchett
Mort - Terry Pratchett
April
The Kid - Dan Savage
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist - Dan Savage
Beloved - Toni Morrison
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Junky - William S. Burroughs
The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family - Dan Savage
The Third Wave - Alvin Toffler
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
May
The Serpant and the Rainbow - Wade Davis
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao- Junot Diaz
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Letter of Marque - Patrick O'Brian
Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? - Maryse Conde
Music for Chameleons -Truman Capote
The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
Lime Tree Can't Bear Orange - Amanda Smyth
The Long Way Round - Charley Boorman & Ewan McGregor
June
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty - G.J. Meyer
World Mythology - Donna Rosenberg
The Last King of Scotland - Giles Foden
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
The Magnificent Ambersens - Booth Tarkington
Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda - Jean-Philippe Stassen
Witches and Witch-Hunts - Milton Meltzer
Dark Places- Jon Evans
You Don't Know Much About Mythology - Kenneth C. Davis
The Hundred Days - Patrick O'Brian
The Commodore - Patrick O'Brian
July
Twentieth Century - Howard Zinn
Faithful Place - Tana French
World War Z - Max Brooks
Galilee - Clive Barker
Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists - Gideon Defoe
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors - Piers Paul Read
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
Gallatin Canyon - Thomas McGuane
Now is the Hour - Tom Spanbauer
August
The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Red Queen - Philippa Gregory
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
The Mauritius Command - Patrick O'Brian
The Laramie Project - Moises Kaufman
Sex with the Queen - Eleanor Herman
The Glass Menagerie -Tennessee Williams
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
September
In a Perfect World - Laura Kasischke
Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
The Lake of the Woods -Tim O’Brien
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
October
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Royal Panopoly: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs - Carolly Erickson
A Brief History of British Kings & Queens - Mike Ashley
Earth (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race - Jon Stewart and the Writers of the Daily Show
Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist
Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen
Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris
From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf: An Astounding and Wholly Inauthorized History of English Literature - Robert Manson Myers
Family Limitations - Margaret Sanger
November
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter À L’École Des Sorciers - J.K. Rowling (in French)
December
Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice
Grave Sight - Charlaine Harris
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
Other Voices, Other Rooms - Truman Capote
The Orchard Keeper - Cormac McCarthy
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Made in the U.S.A. -Billie Letts
The Weight of Silence - Heather Gudenkauf
Total: 110 books
Total # of pages: 34599
Best Month: February with 15 books
Worst Month: November with 2 books
Read the States Challenge: 50/50 Completed!
Read the World Challenge: 37/60 Challenge ends March 26th
I'm very pleased. I more than doubled the number of books I read last year. Unfortunately, I know there's no way I'll be reading this much since I'll be in school (meaning I'll be too busy for any kind of leisure reading). What I'd like to read is the rest of the Discworld series, the rest of the full collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, and the full Aubrey-Maturin series (I read a few last year since they fit so well with the Read the World challenge, but I'd like some more cohesion here, and read them all in order).
January:
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King
IT - Stephen King
Our Town - Thornton Wilder
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
Stuff White People Like - Christian Lander
Revenge / The Stars' Tennis Balls - Stephen Fry
A Good School - Richard Yates
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
February:
The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks - William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Miracle on 34th Street - Valentine Davies
Sophie's Choice - William Styron
A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
Our Dumb World - The Onion
A Kiss Before Dying - Ira Levin
Moab is My Washpot - Stephen Fry
Another Country - James Baldwin
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
March
Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Push - Sapphire
Blood and Chocolate - Annette Curtis Klause
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
Equal Rights - Terry Pratchett
Mort - Terry Pratchett
April
The Kid - Dan Savage
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist - Dan Savage
Beloved - Toni Morrison
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Junky - William S. Burroughs
The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family - Dan Savage
The Third Wave - Alvin Toffler
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
May
The Serpant and the Rainbow - Wade Davis
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao- Junot Diaz
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Letter of Marque - Patrick O'Brian
Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? - Maryse Conde
Music for Chameleons -Truman Capote
The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
Lime Tree Can't Bear Orange - Amanda Smyth
The Long Way Round - Charley Boorman & Ewan McGregor
June
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty - G.J. Meyer
World Mythology - Donna Rosenberg
The Last King of Scotland - Giles Foden
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
The Magnificent Ambersens - Booth Tarkington
Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda - Jean-Philippe Stassen
Witches and Witch-Hunts - Milton Meltzer
Dark Places- Jon Evans
You Don't Know Much About Mythology - Kenneth C. Davis
The Hundred Days - Patrick O'Brian
The Commodore - Patrick O'Brian
July
Twentieth Century - Howard Zinn
Faithful Place - Tana French
World War Z - Max Brooks
Galilee - Clive Barker
Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists - Gideon Defoe
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors - Piers Paul Read
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
Gallatin Canyon - Thomas McGuane
Now is the Hour - Tom Spanbauer
August
The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Red Queen - Philippa Gregory
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
The Mauritius Command - Patrick O'Brian
The Laramie Project - Moises Kaufman
Sex with the Queen - Eleanor Herman
The Glass Menagerie -Tennessee Williams
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
September
In a Perfect World - Laura Kasischke
Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
The Lake of the Woods -Tim O’Brien
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
October
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Royal Panopoly: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs - Carolly Erickson
A Brief History of British Kings & Queens - Mike Ashley
Earth (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race - Jon Stewart and the Writers of the Daily Show
Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist
Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen
Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris
From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf: An Astounding and Wholly Inauthorized History of English Literature - Robert Manson Myers
Family Limitations - Margaret Sanger
November
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter À L’École Des Sorciers - J.K. Rowling (in French)
December
Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice
Grave Sight - Charlaine Harris
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
Other Voices, Other Rooms - Truman Capote
The Orchard Keeper - Cormac McCarthy
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Made in the U.S.A. -Billie Letts
The Weight of Silence - Heather Gudenkauf
Total: 110 books
Total # of pages: 34599
Best Month: February with 15 books
Worst Month: November with 2 books
Read the States Challenge: 50/50 Completed!
Read the World Challenge: 37/60 Challenge ends March 26th
I'm very pleased. I more than doubled the number of books I read last year. Unfortunately, I know there's no way I'll be reading this much since I'll be in school (meaning I'll be too busy for any kind of leisure reading). What I'd like to read is the rest of the Discworld series, the rest of the full collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, and the full Aubrey-Maturin series (I read a few last year since they fit so well with the Read the World challenge, but I'd like some more cohesion here, and read them all in order).