The Book I Read 2010
I seriously doubt I shall red the remaining 420 pages of David Crystal's "How Language Works" in the next 24 hours,
1. Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist
2. Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Peter Collins, David Blair - An Introduction To Language
3. Christopher Hitchens - Regime Change
4. Alain De Botton - Status Anxiety
5. Paul Burrell - A Royal Duty
6. Chalmers Johnson - Nemesis
7. Tim Bowden - Down Under In The Top End
8. Barbara Graham - Women Who Run With The Poodles
9. Colleen McCullough - An Indecent Obsession
10. David Nunan - The Learner-Centred Curriculum
11. Darden Asbury Pyron - Liberace: An American Boy
12. Jeffery Deaver - The Vanished Man
13. Bill Bryson - Down Under
14. Albert Camus - The Fall
15. Dawn French- Dear Fatty
16. Jon Ronson - Them: Adventures With Extremists
17. Marina Warner - Alone Of All Her Sex: The Myth And Cult Of The Virgin Mary
18. Noam Chomsky - Hegemony Or Survival
19. Jonathan Maberry - Patient Zero
20. Lydia Laube - Temples & Tuk Tuks
21. Victoria Clark - The Far-Farers
22. Afferbeck Lauder - Let Stalk Strine
23. Helen Garner - Monkey Grip
24. Kate Fox - Watching The English
25. Ruth Wajnryb - Language Most Foul
26. Tim Moore - Nul Points
27. Suzi Quatro - Unzipped
28. Naomi Klein - No Logo
29. Simon Sebag Montefiore - Young Stalin
30. Chuck Palahniuk - Diary
31. Clinton Heylin - Babylon's Burning: From Punk To Grunge
32. Sandi Hall - The Godmothers
33. Val McDermid - The Grave Tattoo
34. Harry Turtledove - Hitler’s War
35. James Patterson with Andrew Gross - 2nd Chance
36. Simon LeVay - The Sexual Brain
37. Nevile Shute - A Town Like Alice
38. Catherine A. Lutz & Lila Abu-Lughod (eds) - Language And The Politics Of Emotion
39. Carolyn Merchant - The Death Of Nature
40. Harry Turtledove - A World Of Difference
41. Laurens van der Post - The Lost World of the Kalahari
42. Jasper Fforde - Lost In A Good Book
43. Tricia Sullivan - Double Vision
44. Sarah Ferber, Chris Healy, Chris McAuliffe (Eds.) - Beasts Of Suburbia
45. Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole And The Weapons Of Mass Destruction
46. Paule Marshall - Daughters
47. Gary Kroehnert - Basic Training For Trainers
48. Christos Tsiolkas - Dead Europe
49. Stefan Gates - In The Danger Zone
50. Mary Chopin - The Awakening & Selected Stories
51. Hilary Bailey - Fifty-First State
52. Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
53. Rory Stewart - The Places In Between
54. Mickey Hutton - Massive
55. Eric Newby - Slowly Down The Ganges
56. Alexander Frater - Tales From The Torrid Zone
57. Alan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader
58. Jonathan Kellerman - Gone
59. Pamela Des Barres - Let’s Spend The Night Together
60. Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
61. Jo-Ellen Grzyb & Robin Chandler - The Nice Factor
62. Janusz Bardach & Kathleen Gleeson - Man Is Wolf To Man
63. Dan Fesperman - The Warlord’s Son
64. Vicki Myron - Dewey - The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched The World
65. Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
66. John Platt, Heidi Weber & Ho Mian Lian - The New Englishes
67. Dixe Willis - New World Order
68. Ann Cleeves - Blue Lightning
69. Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger
70. Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence
71. Reginald Hill - Midnight Fugue
72. Mark Haddon - A Spot Of Bother
73. Sara Parkin - The Life And Death Of Petra Kelly
Best ones: Probably Alan Bennett and Helen Garner's "Monkey Grip". However, a special mention should go to "A Royal Duty" as IWSWHW.
1. Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist
2. Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Peter Collins, David Blair - An Introduction To Language
3. Christopher Hitchens - Regime Change
4. Alain De Botton - Status Anxiety
5. Paul Burrell - A Royal Duty
6. Chalmers Johnson - Nemesis
7. Tim Bowden - Down Under In The Top End
8. Barbara Graham - Women Who Run With The Poodles
9. Colleen McCullough - An Indecent Obsession
10. David Nunan - The Learner-Centred Curriculum
11. Darden Asbury Pyron - Liberace: An American Boy
12. Jeffery Deaver - The Vanished Man
13. Bill Bryson - Down Under
14. Albert Camus - The Fall
15. Dawn French- Dear Fatty
16. Jon Ronson - Them: Adventures With Extremists
17. Marina Warner - Alone Of All Her Sex: The Myth And Cult Of The Virgin Mary
18. Noam Chomsky - Hegemony Or Survival
19. Jonathan Maberry - Patient Zero
20. Lydia Laube - Temples & Tuk Tuks
21. Victoria Clark - The Far-Farers
22. Afferbeck Lauder - Let Stalk Strine
23. Helen Garner - Monkey Grip
24. Kate Fox - Watching The English
25. Ruth Wajnryb - Language Most Foul
26. Tim Moore - Nul Points
27. Suzi Quatro - Unzipped
28. Naomi Klein - No Logo
29. Simon Sebag Montefiore - Young Stalin
30. Chuck Palahniuk - Diary
31. Clinton Heylin - Babylon's Burning: From Punk To Grunge
32. Sandi Hall - The Godmothers
33. Val McDermid - The Grave Tattoo
34. Harry Turtledove - Hitler’s War
35. James Patterson with Andrew Gross - 2nd Chance
36. Simon LeVay - The Sexual Brain
37. Nevile Shute - A Town Like Alice
38. Catherine A. Lutz & Lila Abu-Lughod (eds) - Language And The Politics Of Emotion
39. Carolyn Merchant - The Death Of Nature
40. Harry Turtledove - A World Of Difference
41. Laurens van der Post - The Lost World of the Kalahari
42. Jasper Fforde - Lost In A Good Book
43. Tricia Sullivan - Double Vision
44. Sarah Ferber, Chris Healy, Chris McAuliffe (Eds.) - Beasts Of Suburbia
45. Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole And The Weapons Of Mass Destruction
46. Paule Marshall - Daughters
47. Gary Kroehnert - Basic Training For Trainers
48. Christos Tsiolkas - Dead Europe
49. Stefan Gates - In The Danger Zone
50. Mary Chopin - The Awakening & Selected Stories
51. Hilary Bailey - Fifty-First State
52. Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
53. Rory Stewart - The Places In Between
54. Mickey Hutton - Massive
55. Eric Newby - Slowly Down The Ganges
56. Alexander Frater - Tales From The Torrid Zone
57. Alan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader
58. Jonathan Kellerman - Gone
59. Pamela Des Barres - Let’s Spend The Night Together
60. Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
61. Jo-Ellen Grzyb & Robin Chandler - The Nice Factor
62. Janusz Bardach & Kathleen Gleeson - Man Is Wolf To Man
63. Dan Fesperman - The Warlord’s Son
64. Vicki Myron - Dewey - The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched The World
65. Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
66. John Platt, Heidi Weber & Ho Mian Lian - The New Englishes
67. Dixe Willis - New World Order
68. Ann Cleeves - Blue Lightning
69. Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger
70. Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence
71. Reginald Hill - Midnight Fugue
72. Mark Haddon - A Spot Of Bother
73. Sara Parkin - The Life And Death Of Petra Kelly
Best ones: Probably Alan Bennett and Helen Garner's "Monkey Grip". However, a special mention should go to "A Royal Duty" as IWSWHW.