I only keep this heap for you.
In the interest of having these things archived, forever, on the internet*, even though it is nearly July and also only I care, Book List 2010.
1. The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
2. The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz
3. Visits from the Dead Girl - Steven Sherrill
4. Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy
5. Curse of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz
6. Incendiary - Chris Cleave
7. Unplugging Philco - Jim Knipfel
8. Codex - Lev Grossman
9. Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde
10. Playing With Fire - Derek Landy
11. The Education of a British-Protected Child - Chinua Achebe
12. True Confections - Katharine Weber
13. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
14. And Now You Can Go - Vendela Vida
!15. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
16. The Faceless Ones - Derek Landy
!17. The Acceptance World (A Dance to the Music of Time #3) - Anthony Powell
18. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
19. The Interrogative Mood - Padgett Powell
20. John Henry Days - Colson Whitehead
21. Commencement - J. Courtney Sullivan
22. Asterios Polyp - David Mazzucchelli
23. Well Enough Alone: A Cultural History of My Hypochondria - Jennifer Traig
24. The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
25. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
26. Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche - Ethan Watters
27. The Ask - Sam Lipsyte
28. The Swan Thieves - Elizabeth Kostova
29. The Education of Arnold Hitler - Marc Estrin
30. A Better Angel - Chris Adrian
!31. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
32. Revenge of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz
33. The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris
34. Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
35. Touch - Francine Prose
36. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
37. Wide Awake - David Levithan
38. First Contact, or, It's Later Than You Think - Evan Mandery
39. The Line - Olga Grushin
40. Pieces for the Left Hand - J. Robert Lennon
41. Republican Gomorrah - Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party - Max Blumenthal
42. The God of War - Marisa Silver
43. The Curious Case of Sidd Finch - George Plimpton
44. The Ticking Is the Bomb - Nick Flynn
45. The Executor - Jesse Kellerman
46. Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
47. No Direction Home - Marisa Silver
!48. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
49. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (reread)
50. Hellhound on His Trail - Hampton Sides
51. The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios - Yann Martel
52. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
53. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
54. Beatrice and Virgil - Yann Martel
55. The Lonely Polygamist - Brady Udall
56. Streams of Babel - Carol Plum-Ucci
57. Imperial Bedrooms - Bret Easton Ellis
58. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm
!59. At Lady Molly's (A Dance to the Music of Time #4) - Anthony Powell
60. The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter
61. How Did You Get This Number - Sloane Crosley
62. Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck & the Triumph of Ignorance - Alexander Zaitchik
63. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
64. Three Delays - Charlie Smith
65. Anthropology of an American Girl - Hilary Thayer Hamann
66. The Game from Where I Stand - Doug Glanville
67. Broken Glass Park - Alina Bronsky
!68. Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (ADttMoT #5) - Anthony Powell
69. The News Where You Are - Catherine O'Flynn
70. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S. Thompson
71. These Children Who Come at You with Knives - Jim Knipfel
72. The Answer Is Always Yes - Monica Ferrell
73. American Gothic Tales - ed. Joyce Carol Oates (mostly because it had "The Yellow Wallpaper" in it, and somehow I'd never read that?)
74. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
75. The Nobodies Album - Carolyn Parkhurst
76. Mr. Peanut - Adam Ross
77. This Is Where We Live - Janelle Brown
78. Wasteland - Francesca Lia Block
79. The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman
80. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
81. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
82. Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back - Thomas Geoghegan
83. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
84. The Breaking of Eggs - Jim Powell
85. Portobello - Ruth Rendell
86. More Than It Hurts You - Darin Strauss
87. The Vaults - Toby Ball
88. What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America - Thomas Frank
89. Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin
90. Blood Harvest - S.J. Bolton
91. Our Tragic Universe - Scarlett Thomas
92. Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements - Dwight Garner
93. You Were Wrong - Matthew Sharpe
94. The Shadows in the Street - Susan Hill
95. C - Tom McCarthy
96. Half a Life - Darin Strauss
97. Is Sex Necessary? or, Why You Feel the Way You Do - James Thurber and E.B. White
98. The Snowman's Children - Glen Hirshberg
99. Sacrifice - S.J. Bolton
100. Room - Emma Donoghue
101. C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy - Jeff Sharlet
102. John Dies at the End - David Wong
103. American Morons - Glen Hirshberg
104. Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer -- and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class - Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
105. Awakening - S.J. Bolton
106. At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson
107. Luka and the Fire of Life - Salman Rushdie
108. Skippy Dies - Paul Murray
109. The Instructions - Adam Levin
! indicates that it's on Time's top 100 from 1923-2005, of which I've now read 88 (A Dance to the Music of Time totally queers the numbers, though.)
Other than that, we might have to sell our house and the cottage in Minnesota, I have been spending the morning watching "Muppet Babies" on YouTube (The Snow White Blues!!!!! I cannot TELL YOU how much I loved this song when I was a wee Karen), and suing a large corporation CONTINUES TO SUCK SO HARD. But mostly this is for archival purposes, yes.
*Re: archiving things forever on the internet: Kyle is doing a project for the Society for American Baseball Research in which he is doing this very thing, with an old baseball court case. "I've seen about a thousand Kenesaw Mountain Landis signatures." Which is REALLY AWESOME if you are a baseball history nerd, and really baffling if you are anyone else. IT'S REALLY AWESOME.
1. The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
2. The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz
3. Visits from the Dead Girl - Steven Sherrill
4. Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy
5. Curse of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz
6. Incendiary - Chris Cleave
7. Unplugging Philco - Jim Knipfel
8. Codex - Lev Grossman
9. Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde
10. Playing With Fire - Derek Landy
11. The Education of a British-Protected Child - Chinua Achebe
12. True Confections - Katharine Weber
13. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
14. And Now You Can Go - Vendela Vida
!15. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
16. The Faceless Ones - Derek Landy
!17. The Acceptance World (A Dance to the Music of Time #3) - Anthony Powell
18. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
19. The Interrogative Mood - Padgett Powell
20. John Henry Days - Colson Whitehead
21. Commencement - J. Courtney Sullivan
22. Asterios Polyp - David Mazzucchelli
23. Well Enough Alone: A Cultural History of My Hypochondria - Jennifer Traig
24. The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
25. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
26. Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche - Ethan Watters
27. The Ask - Sam Lipsyte
28. The Swan Thieves - Elizabeth Kostova
29. The Education of Arnold Hitler - Marc Estrin
30. A Better Angel - Chris Adrian
!31. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
32. Revenge of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz
33. The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris
34. Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
35. Touch - Francine Prose
36. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
37. Wide Awake - David Levithan
38. First Contact, or, It's Later Than You Think - Evan Mandery
39. The Line - Olga Grushin
40. Pieces for the Left Hand - J. Robert Lennon
41. Republican Gomorrah - Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party - Max Blumenthal
42. The God of War - Marisa Silver
43. The Curious Case of Sidd Finch - George Plimpton
44. The Ticking Is the Bomb - Nick Flynn
45. The Executor - Jesse Kellerman
46. Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
47. No Direction Home - Marisa Silver
!48. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
49. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (reread)
50. Hellhound on His Trail - Hampton Sides
51. The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios - Yann Martel
52. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
53. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
54. Beatrice and Virgil - Yann Martel
55. The Lonely Polygamist - Brady Udall
56. Streams of Babel - Carol Plum-Ucci
57. Imperial Bedrooms - Bret Easton Ellis
58. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm
!59. At Lady Molly's (A Dance to the Music of Time #4) - Anthony Powell
60. The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter
61. How Did You Get This Number - Sloane Crosley
62. Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck & the Triumph of Ignorance - Alexander Zaitchik
63. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
64. Three Delays - Charlie Smith
65. Anthropology of an American Girl - Hilary Thayer Hamann
66. The Game from Where I Stand - Doug Glanville
67. Broken Glass Park - Alina Bronsky
!68. Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (ADttMoT #5) - Anthony Powell
69. The News Where You Are - Catherine O'Flynn
70. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S. Thompson
71. These Children Who Come at You with Knives - Jim Knipfel
72. The Answer Is Always Yes - Monica Ferrell
73. American Gothic Tales - ed. Joyce Carol Oates (mostly because it had "The Yellow Wallpaper" in it, and somehow I'd never read that?)
74. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
75. The Nobodies Album - Carolyn Parkhurst
76. Mr. Peanut - Adam Ross
77. This Is Where We Live - Janelle Brown
78. Wasteland - Francesca Lia Block
79. The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman
80. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
81. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
82. Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back - Thomas Geoghegan
83. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
84. The Breaking of Eggs - Jim Powell
85. Portobello - Ruth Rendell
86. More Than It Hurts You - Darin Strauss
87. The Vaults - Toby Ball
88. What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America - Thomas Frank
89. Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin
90. Blood Harvest - S.J. Bolton
91. Our Tragic Universe - Scarlett Thomas
92. Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements - Dwight Garner
93. You Were Wrong - Matthew Sharpe
94. The Shadows in the Street - Susan Hill
95. C - Tom McCarthy
96. Half a Life - Darin Strauss
97. Is Sex Necessary? or, Why You Feel the Way You Do - James Thurber and E.B. White
98. The Snowman's Children - Glen Hirshberg
99. Sacrifice - S.J. Bolton
100. Room - Emma Donoghue
101. C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy - Jeff Sharlet
102. John Dies at the End - David Wong
103. American Morons - Glen Hirshberg
104. Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer -- and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class - Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
105. Awakening - S.J. Bolton
106. At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson
107. Luka and the Fire of Life - Salman Rushdie
108. Skippy Dies - Paul Murray
109. The Instructions - Adam Levin
! indicates that it's on Time's top 100 from 1923-2005, of which I've now read 88 (A Dance to the Music of Time totally queers the numbers, though.)
Other than that, we might have to sell our house and the cottage in Minnesota, I have been spending the morning watching "Muppet Babies" on YouTube (The Snow White Blues!!!!! I cannot TELL YOU how much I loved this song when I was a wee Karen), and suing a large corporation CONTINUES TO SUCK SO HARD. But mostly this is for archival purposes, yes.
*Re: archiving things forever on the internet: Kyle is doing a project for the Society for American Baseball Research in which he is doing this very thing, with an old baseball court case. "I've seen about a thousand Kenesaw Mountain Landis signatures." Which is REALLY AWESOME if you are a baseball history nerd, and really baffling if you are anyone else. IT'S REALLY AWESOME.