Books I Read in 2010

December 11, 2010 at 11:50 pm (The Whim) (, , )

(in order of completion date)

  1. A Separate Peace – John Knowles (Jan.)
  2. Get a Grip on Evolution – David Burnie (Jan.)
  3. Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger (Jan.)
  4. The Origin – Irving Stone (Jan.)
  5. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut (Feb.)
  6. Darwin’s Black Box- Michael J. Behe (Feb.)
  7. The Templars – Piers Paul Read (Feb.)
  8. Forget About It – Caprice Crane (Feb.)
  9. The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell – Hilary Spurling (April)
  10. Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky (April)
  11. Guinevere, Queen of the Summer Country – Rosalind Miles (April)
  12. A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson (April)
  13. The Angel’s Game – Carlos Ruiz Zafon (May)
  14. Ramses: Son of Light – Christian Jacq (May)
  15. Ramses: The Eternal Temple – Christian Jacq (May)
  16. Conspicuous Consumption – Vebler (June)
  17. Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome (June)
  18. Anna Karenina – Tolstoy (June)
  19. Ramses: The Battle of Kadesh – Christian Jacq (June)
  20. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy (July)
  21. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot (July)
  22. Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi (July)
  23. The Ghost and the Dead Deb – Alice Kimberly (August)
  24. The Ghost and the Dead Man’s Library – Alice Kimberly (August)
  25. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak (August)
  26. Whose Body? – Dorothy Sayers (August)
  27. Espresso Shot – Cleo Coyle (August)
  28. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie (August)
  29. A Pair of Blue Eyes – Thomas Hardy (September)
  30. The Sweet Far Thing – Libba Bray (October)
  31. Well Enough Alone – Jennifer Traig (October)
  32. The Monk – Matthew Lewis (November)
  33. Family Affair – Caprice Crane (November)
  34. The Pleasures of God – John Piper (November)
  35. The Diaries of Adam and Eve – Mark Twain (November)
  36. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (November)
  37. Finding Darwin’s God – Kenneth Miller (December)
  38. Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom (December)
  39. 84, Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff (December)
  40. Where I Lived and What I Lived For – Henry David Thoreau (December)
  41. The Brief History of the Dead – Kevin Brockmeier (December)
  42. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame (December)

For my 2009 list: https://anakalianwhims.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/2009-book-list/

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2009 Book List

November 22, 2009 at 10:59 pm (The Whim) (, , )

I’m a big nerd that keeps lists.  Here’s the list of my completed books (so far) for 2009.  Keep in mind, I am also a bookseller and don’t just read what I like, but also what my customers like, to have opinions and comparisons to offer those customers.  All reviews can be found on my shelfari.com account.

1. Pilgrim’s Progress – Bunyan (Jan.)

2. Sense & Sensibility – Austen (Jan.)

3. Gulliver’s Travels – Swift (Jan.)

4. Pride & Prejudice – Austen (Jan.)

5. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict – Rigler (Feb.)

6. Suite Francaise – Nemirovsky (Feb.)

7. Oliver Twist – Dickens (Feb.)

8. Up the Down Staircase – Kaufman (Feb.)

9. Jane Eyre – Bronte (Feb.)

10. The Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne (March)

11. Mary Queen of Scots – George (March)

12. East of Eden – Steinbeck (March)

13. Little Chapel on the River – Bounds (March)

14. Banvard’s Folly – Collins (March)

15. Stupid & Contagious – Crane (March)

16. Decaffeinated Corpse – Coyle (March)

17. Series of Unfortunate Events #12 – Snicket (April)

18. Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Adams (April)

19. Empire of Darkness – Jacq (April)

20. Kilmeny of the Orchard – Montgomery (April)

21. Blackbird – Lauk (May)

22. The War of the Crowns – Jacq (May)

23. The Castle – Kafka (May)

24. Lover’s Vows – Inchbald (May)

25. Amsterdam – McEwan (May)

26. Egyptian Magic – Budge (May)

27. Mansfield Park – Austen (May)

28. The Flaming Sword – Jacq (May)

29. Moby Dick – Melville (May)

30. Watermelon – Keyes (June)

31. A Wizard of Earthsea – Le Guine (June)

32. On Basilisk Station – Weber (June)

33. Nefertiti – Moran (July)

34. Zenith Rising – Goodell (July)

35. Coffee & Coffeehouses – Hattox (July)

36. Living Dead in Dallas – Harris (July)

37. French Pressed – Coyle (July)

38. City of Dreaming Books – Moers (July)

39. Time Was Soft There – Mercer (July)

40. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Fitzgerald (July)

41. Out of the Silent Planet – Lewis (July)

42. The Twelfth Transforming – Gedge (Aug.)

43. Far From the Madding Crowd – Hardy (Aug.)

44. At Home in Mitford – Karon (Aug.)

45. The Search for Nefertiti – Fletcher (Aug.)

46. A Great and Terrible Beauty – Bray (Aug.)

47. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies – Austen and Grahame-Smith (Aug.)

48. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Scamander (Aug.)

49. Cathy’s Key (Aug.)

50. Founding Brothers – Ellis (Sept.)

51. Sunshine – McKinley (Sept.)

52. Club Dead – Harris (Sept.)

53. Hunger’s Brides – Anderson (Sept.)

54. Dead to the World – Harris (Sept.)

55. The Shadow of the Wind – Ruiz Zafon (Sept.)

56. Dead as a Doornail – Harris (Sept.)

57. Definitely Dead – Harris (Sept.)

58. Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass – Carroll (Sept.)

59. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe (Sept.)

60. Foucault’s Pendulum – Eco (Sept.)

61. Flying Colors – Forester (Oct.)

62. Commander Hornblower – Forester (Oct.)

63. The Heretic Queen – Moran (Oct.)

64. The Communist Manifesto – Marx (Oct.)

65. The Fountainhead – Rand (Nov.)

66. On Art and Life – Ruskin (Nov.)

67. All Together Dead – Harris (Nov.)

68. From Dead to Worse – Harris (Nov.)

69. The Piano Tuner – Mason (Nov.)

70. The Ghost and Mrs. McClure – Kimberly (Nov.)

71. Lady Susan – Austen (Dec.)

72. Jumper: Griffin’s Story – Steven Gould (Dec.)

73. Madame Bovary – Gustav Flaubert (Dec.)

74. Unclean Spirits – M.L.N. Hanover (Dec.)

75. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink (Dec.)

76. Rebel Angels – Libba Bray (Dec.)

77. Stardust – Neil Gaiman (Dec.)

78. The Looking Glass Wars – Frank Beddor (Dec.)

79. Seeing Redd – Frank Beddor (Dec.)

What have you read this year?

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