2010 Book List
I am once again an [Un]Official Bookwyrm, since The 100 Books Club is now defunct. I achieved my highest book and my highest page count in 2010. Woohoo!
1) U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
2) Holly's Inbox by Holly Denham
3) Obama's Blackberry by Kasper Hauser
4) Yours Ever: People and Their Letters by Thomas Mallon
5) At Fault by Kate Chopin
6) Overqualified by Joey Comeau
7) Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
8) Not Quite What I Was Planning edited by Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith
9) Navigating Legal Issues in Archives by Menzi L. Behrnd-Klodt
10) The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenault
11) Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float by Sarah Schmelling
12) The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
13) The Shadow of the Sun by A. S. Byatt
14) Sanctuary by Edith Wharton
15) The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton
16) The Touchstone by Edith Wharton
17) A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
18) SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
19) Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton
20) The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton
21) Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott
22) Twitterature by Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin
23) The House on Eccles Road by Judith Kitchen
24) A Book of One's Own by Thomas Mallon
25) Lips Touch Three Times by Laini Taylor
26) The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
27) mental_floss presents: Forbidden Knowledge edited by Will Pearson, Mangesh Hattikudur, and Elizabeth Hunt
28) The Power of Sympathy/The Coquette by William Hill Brown/Hannah Webster Foster
29) The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
30) A Modern Mephistopheles by Louisa May Alcott
31) Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
32) I am an Emotional Creature by Eve Ensler
33) The Song is You by Arthur Phillips
34) Secret Diary of a Callgirl by Anonymous/Belle du Jour
35) Pride of Kings by Judith Tarr
36) Angelology by Danielle Trussoni
37) Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick
38) The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
39) Endangered Words by Simon Hertnon
40) Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
41) Cat of the Century by Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown
42) Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
43) Lammas Night by Katherine Kurtz
44) Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
45) Hello Kitty Must Die by Angela S. Choi
46) The East, the West, and Sex by Richard Bernstein
47) Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey
48) Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey
49) Kushiel's Mercy by Jacqueline Carey
50) Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney
51) Marrying Buddha by Wei Hui
52) Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
53) No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
54) The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov
55) Group Portrait with Lady by Heinrich Boll
56) The Valley of Decision, Vol. 1 by Edith Wharton
57) The Valley of Decision, Vol. 2 by Edith Wharton
58) Dene Hollow by Ellen Wood
59) Every House Needs a Balcony by Rina Frank
60) Tinkers by Paul Harding
61) Insatiable by Meg Cabot
62) Passion by Jude Morgan
63) The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason
64) Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
65) Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki
66) The Three Cornered World/Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki
67) After Dark by Haruki Murakami
68) The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
69) Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
70) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
71) A New Introduction to Bibliography by Philip Gaskell
72) Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
73) The Sheen on the Silk by Anne Perry
74) Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! by Scott Adams
75) Time and Again by Jack Finney
76) Demian by Hermann Hesse
77) In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
78) Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder
79) Disquiet, Please! More Humor Writing from The New Yorker edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder
80) The Organization of Information by Arlene G. Taylor and Daniel N. Joudrey
81) The Literature of Theology by David R. Stewart
82) The SBL Handbook of Style
83) A Nose for Justice by Rita Mae Brown
84) Wuthering Bites by Sarah Gray
85) Taroko Gorge by Jacob Ritari
86) Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
87) Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange
88) Rite of Conquest by Judith Tarr
89) Passion Play by Beth Bernobich
90) Jane and the Damned by Janet Mullany
91) Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
92) Holly's Inbox: Scandal in the City by Holly Denham
Final Count: 92 books; 31,191 pages.
Favorite Book: I couldn’t put down Jacqueline Carey’s second Kushiel’s Legacy trilogy (Treason’s Heir/Imriel trilogy). As in I tried to read other books and couldn’t bring myself to because I absolutely had to read the next book in the series. Now that is saying something.
Least Favorite Book: Overqualified. Possibly because it simply wasn't what I was expecting.
Number of Books Read for School: 4
Number of Books Read for Work: 1
Most Original Book: The Broken Teaglass, which delivers a story within the story through fragments written as word use examples on a dictionary publisher's definition cards.
Most-Read Author: Edith Wharton, with 8 books (9% of the total)
Favorite "New to Me" Author: Natsume Soseki
Book I'd Recommend: Wuthering Bites, because if vampires had been in vogue when Emily Bronte was alive, this is probably what she would have written.
1) U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
2) Holly's Inbox by Holly Denham
3) Obama's Blackberry by Kasper Hauser
4) Yours Ever: People and Their Letters by Thomas Mallon
5) At Fault by Kate Chopin
6) Overqualified by Joey Comeau
7) Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
8) Not Quite What I Was Planning edited by Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith
9) Navigating Legal Issues in Archives by Menzi L. Behrnd-Klodt
10) The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenault
11) Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float by Sarah Schmelling
12) The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
13) The Shadow of the Sun by A. S. Byatt
14) Sanctuary by Edith Wharton
15) The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton
16) The Touchstone by Edith Wharton
17) A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
18) SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
19) Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton
20) The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton
21) Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott
22) Twitterature by Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin
23) The House on Eccles Road by Judith Kitchen
24) A Book of One's Own by Thomas Mallon
25) Lips Touch Three Times by Laini Taylor
26) The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
27) mental_floss presents: Forbidden Knowledge edited by Will Pearson, Mangesh Hattikudur, and Elizabeth Hunt
28) The Power of Sympathy/The Coquette by William Hill Brown/Hannah Webster Foster
29) The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
30) A Modern Mephistopheles by Louisa May Alcott
31) Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
32) I am an Emotional Creature by Eve Ensler
33) The Song is You by Arthur Phillips
34) Secret Diary of a Callgirl by Anonymous/Belle du Jour
35) Pride of Kings by Judith Tarr
36) Angelology by Danielle Trussoni
37) Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick
38) The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
39) Endangered Words by Simon Hertnon
40) Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
41) Cat of the Century by Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown
42) Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
43) Lammas Night by Katherine Kurtz
44) Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
45) Hello Kitty Must Die by Angela S. Choi
46) The East, the West, and Sex by Richard Bernstein
47) Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey
48) Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey
49) Kushiel's Mercy by Jacqueline Carey
50) Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney
51) Marrying Buddha by Wei Hui
52) Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
53) No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
54) The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov
55) Group Portrait with Lady by Heinrich Boll
56) The Valley of Decision, Vol. 1 by Edith Wharton
57) The Valley of Decision, Vol. 2 by Edith Wharton
58) Dene Hollow by Ellen Wood
59) Every House Needs a Balcony by Rina Frank
60) Tinkers by Paul Harding
61) Insatiable by Meg Cabot
62) Passion by Jude Morgan
63) The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason
64) Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
65) Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki
66) The Three Cornered World/Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki
67) After Dark by Haruki Murakami
68) The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
69) Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
70) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
71) A New Introduction to Bibliography by Philip Gaskell
72) Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
73) The Sheen on the Silk by Anne Perry
74) Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! by Scott Adams
75) Time and Again by Jack Finney
76) Demian by Hermann Hesse
77) In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
78) Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder
79) Disquiet, Please! More Humor Writing from The New Yorker edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder
80) The Organization of Information by Arlene G. Taylor and Daniel N. Joudrey
81) The Literature of Theology by David R. Stewart
82) The SBL Handbook of Style
83) A Nose for Justice by Rita Mae Brown
84) Wuthering Bites by Sarah Gray
85) Taroko Gorge by Jacob Ritari
86) Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
87) Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange
88) Rite of Conquest by Judith Tarr
89) Passion Play by Beth Bernobich
90) Jane and the Damned by Janet Mullany
91) Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
92) Holly's Inbox: Scandal in the City by Holly Denham
Final Count: 92 books; 31,191 pages.
Favorite Book: I couldn’t put down Jacqueline Carey’s second Kushiel’s Legacy trilogy (Treason’s Heir/Imriel trilogy). As in I tried to read other books and couldn’t bring myself to because I absolutely had to read the next book in the series. Now that is saying something.
Least Favorite Book: Overqualified. Possibly because it simply wasn't what I was expecting.
Number of Books Read for School: 4
Number of Books Read for Work: 1
Most Original Book: The Broken Teaglass, which delivers a story within the story through fragments written as word use examples on a dictionary publisher's definition cards.
Most-Read Author: Edith Wharton, with 8 books (9% of the total)
Favorite "New to Me" Author: Natsume Soseki
Book I'd Recommend: Wuthering Bites, because if vampires had been in vogue when Emily Bronte was alive, this is probably what she would have written.