Monday, January 3, 2011

Books read in 2010

Yes, it's that time of year, folks. The time when I tally up the year in reading.

Quite a high number this year (it's amazing how much reading you can get done when you're not writing and are recovering from major surgery).

Here's the list, including re-reads and unfinisheds.

  1. End of Story – Peter Abrahams
  2. Looking for Mr. Goodbar – Judith Rossner
  3. The Lady in the Lake – Raymond Chandler
  4. Now and Forever – Ray Bradbury
  5. The Pale Blue Eye – Louis Bayard
  6. The Long Last Call – John Skipp
  7. Heat Wave – Richard Castle
  8. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
  9. The Grifters – Jim Thompson
  10. The Knitting Circle – Ann Hood **
  11. The Preservationist – David Maine *
  12. Dawn of the Dreadfuls – Steve Hockensmith
  13. Dragon Keeper – Robin Hobb
  14. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
  15. Horns – Joe Hill
  16. The Cold Six Thousand – James Ellroy
  17. Goodnight Nobody – Jennifer Weiner
  18. Somewhere in Time – Richard Matheson
  19. The Boleyn Inheritance – Philippa Gregory *
  20. The Choirboys – Joseph Wambaugh
  21. Make Room! Make Room! – Harry Harrison **
  22. The Price of Salt – Patricia Highsmith
  23. The Brave – Gregory McDonald
  24. The Sheik – E. M. Hull **
  25. Anno Dracula – Kim Newman
  26. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
  27. Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
  28. Fool – Christopher Moore **
  29. Strip Tease – Carl Hiaasen
  30. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
  31. Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral – Kris Radish **
  32. The Last Boleyn – Karen Harper **
  33. Push – Sapphire
  34. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
  35. The Fire Gospel – Michel Faber
  36. Drood – Dan Simmons
  37. Mistress of Rome – Kate Quinn
  38. The Removers – Donald Hamilton
  39. The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
  40. The Ruins – Scott Smith
  41. A Purple Place for Dying – John D. MacDonald
  42. The Heretic’s Daughter – Kathleen Kent
  43. World War Z – Max Brooks *
  44. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson **
  45. Disturbing the Peace – Richard Yates
  46. Afraid – Jack Kilborn
  47. The Continental Op – Dashiell Hammett
  48. The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty *
  49. Play it As it Lays – Joan Didion
  50. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
  51. Blood Memory – Greg Iles
  52. A Rose for the Crown – Anne Easter Smith **
  53. Soul Music – Terry Pratchett
  54. The Courtesan – Susan Carroll **
  55. A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin *
  56. A Clash of Kings – George R. R. Martin *
  57. A Storm of Swords – George R. R. Martin *
  58. Boys and Girls Together – William Goldman
  59. Star Island – Carl Hiaasen
  60. Blood’s a Rover – James Ellroy
  61. Pompeii – Robert Harris
  62. Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
  63. Through a Glass Darkly – Karleen Koen *
  64. Under the Skin – Michel Faber *
  65. Slammerkin – Emma Donoghue *
  66. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx *
  67. Full Dark, No Stars – Stephen King
  68. The Silencers – Donald Hamilton
  69. Death’s Daughter – Amber Benson **
  70. Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist **
  71. Vows – LaVyrle Spencer
  72. Dress Her in Indigo – John D. MacDonald
  73. Confessions of a Shopaholic – Sophie Kinsella
  74. True Grit – Charles Portis

* re-read

** unfinished


The best books of the year were:

The Pale Blue Eye

Wolf Hall

Anno Dracula

Boys and Girls Together

Play it as it Lays

The Brave

Drood

Blood's a Rover

Miss Lonelyhearts/Day of the Locust

True Grit

The Sun Also Rises


The reading for 2011 has kicked off with John Gardner's Grendel.

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