Saturday, January 1, 2011

What I Read - 2010 Edition

Here they are, ladies & gents -- the books I read in 2010, in the order read:


1. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier

2. Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals by Frans de Waal

3-12. The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny (all 10 books of the Amber Chronicles)

13. Friends for Life: Enriching the Bond between Mothers and Their Adult Daughters by Susan Jonas and Marilyn Nissensen

14. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

15. Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd

16. Rebels of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd

17. The Secret by Eva Hoffman

18. Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert

19. The Flaw in the Blood by Stephanie Barron

20. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

21. Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman

22. Darwin’s Radio by Greg Bear

23. The Family Trade by Charles Strosser

24. The Hidden Family by Charles Strosser

25. The Clan Corporate by Charles Strosser

26. The Merchants’ War by Charles Strosser

27. The Revolution Business by Charles Strosser

28. The Trade of Queens by Charles Strosser

29. Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham

30. Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman

31. Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley

32. The Hanging Tree by Bryan Gruley

33. The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman

34. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

35. The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell’s Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears by Nick Jans

36. Packaging Boyhood – Saving Our Sons from Superheroes, Slackers, and Other Media Stereotypes by Lyn Mikel Brown, Sharon Lamb, and Mark Tappan

37. Let Me In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

38. Perfection by Julie Metz

39. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

40. Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron by Stephanie Barron

41. Angel, Vol. 6: Last Angel in Hell by Bryan Lynch, et al.


Favorite?  Probably Committed.
Least favorite?  Definitely Frankenstein
Most surprisingly good read?  The Grizzly Maze

As with 2010, I have no special goal for 2011, but I'm currently reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on my Kindle and Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving in paperback.  Expect lots of classics in 2011 because I'm all about the free ebooks!