Reading List: 2010 Edition

[alexiscartwheel]

For the last three years I've been keeping track of every book I read, and much to my chagrin, the list just gets shorter and shorter every year. I know 49 books is more than many people read in a year, but to me it's a kind of a disappointment for two reasons. First, I finished school in the spring, so I actually had a lot more free time, but apparently I didn't spend it reading. Second, a lot of what I did read this year was sort of "meh." Granted, I did suddenly acquire a social life there for part of the year, which was certainly a contributing factor, and I think the meh-ness didn't exactly inspire me.

In the past I've provided links to reviews, but I wrote so few this year that I don't feel like digging back through the year's admittedly few entries to find them. If there's a book you'd like to know about, just ask!

1. Saturday by Ian McEwan
2. Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey
3. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
4. Harry, A History by Melissa Anelli
5. Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
6. Glut by Alex Wright
7. Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern
8. Metaphor by Zoltan Kövecses
9. How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford
10. Candor by Pam Bachorz
11. The Gates by John Connoly
12. The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig
13. Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
14. A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire
15. Changeless by Gail Carriger
16. Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind
17. Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
18. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
19. The Truth by Terry Pratchett
20. Fire by Kristin Cashore
21. Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
22. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
23. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
24. Lament by Maggie Stiefvater
25. For the Win by Cory Doctorow
26. Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
27. The Duchess by Amanda Foreman
28. This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
29. The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer
30. Magic Lost, Trouble Found by Lisa Shearin
31. Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
32. Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
33. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
34. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
35. Unclutter Your Life In One Week by Erin Doland
36. Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
37. Cleaving by Julie Powell
38. Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
39. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
40. Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
41. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
42. An Artificial Night Seanan McGuire
43. Cousin Kate by Georgette Heyer
44. Emma by Jane Austen
45. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
46. About a Boy by Nick Hornby
47. The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig
48. A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé
49. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Comments

[carrotgirl.livejournal.com]

You probably did read less because you were out doing more.

Some of these are ones I have been meaning to read as well. Nice list!

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

And out doing more is not necessarily bad. But can I manage both? This year I want to average one book per week, if not more.

[carrotgirl.livejournal.com]

That's a good goal. I think I'll go for that one too, since reading more is on my list of resolutions. I spent way too much time vegging in front of the TV last year.

[sea_thoughts]

I've decided to keep a list of books I've finished this year as well. :)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - is this good? I've been thinking about reading it.

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I enjoyed it. If I recall correctly, I read it in an afternoon.