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.