Books Read 2010

Here is the list of books I read in 2010. It may be a fair indicator as to why it is taking me so long to finish my dissertation...or not? I've indicated which ones I'd recommend reading with a *.

January

• Under the Dome by Stephen King *My guilty pleasure author. I love his stuff.
• Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the NHM by Richard Fortley*
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer*
• Seer of Egypt by Paline Gedge *I've read all of her stuff and love it.
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See*
• Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson* the whole Mistborn series is super cool
• Cape Breton Road by D.R. MacDonald
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger*
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Carroll
• Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
• Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie *

February

• Three Cups of Tea by G. Mortenson and D. Relin*
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman *though I think I liked American Gods better
• Magician: Apprentice by R.E. Feist (an interesting series but not for everyone)
• Magician: Master by R.E. Feist
• Lies My Father Told Me by Norman Allen
• Silverthorn by R.E. Feist
• A Darkness at Sethanon by R.E. Feist
• Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies
• Why I Am Not A Scientist by Jonathan Marks *must read for any Anthropologist
• Daughter of the Empire by R.E. Feist and Janny Wurts

March

• Servant of the Empire by R.E. Feist and Janny Wurts
• Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• More than Human by Theodore Sturgeon*
• Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell*
• Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
• Parchute Infantry by David Kenyon Webster (a must for all Band of Brothers fans)
• Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk
• West of Eden by Harry Harrison

April

• Howard's End by E.M. Forster
• Winter in Eden by Harry Harrison
• Return to Eden by Harry Harrison
• Papillon by Henri Charriere*
• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
• Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
• Up in the Air by Walker Kirn
• Misstress of the Empire by Feist and Wurst
• Generation X by Douglas Coupland
• Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle* super cool & inspired me to finally read Dante
• Escape from Hell by Niven and Pournelle*
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
• Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald*

May

• Help Me, Jacques Cousteau by Gil Adamson
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle*
• Boy by Roald Dahl
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier*
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• The Garneau Block by Todd Babiuk
• The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
• The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (the John Ciardi translation)* Inferno is the best of the three parts.
• Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
• The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico
• The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

June

• Personal Effects: Dark Art by J.C. Hutchins and Jordan Weisman*
• The Concubine's Daughter by Pai Kit Fai
• The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

July/August

I was in the field in Tanzania so didn't get much reading done

• Homo Britanicus by Chris Stringer
• How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life by His Holiness the Dalai Lama*
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• Immortality by Milan Kundera
• Flow, My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
• Living Next-Door to the God of Love by Justina Robson

September

• Blindness by Jose Saramago*
• The Persimmon Tree by Bryce Courtenay
• Tales from Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry
• Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott* My favourite of the 2010 Canada Reads selections
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman*
• Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

October

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson
• I Shall Not Hate by Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish* the best book I read all year. Read it. Now.
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich by Philip K. Dick
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick*
• Ubik by Philip K. Dick

November

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• John Dies @ the End by David Wong*
• The Walking Dead books 1-6* which had to re-read before I started watching season 1!
• Little Bee by Chris Cleeve*
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett*
• Insomnia by Stephen King
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• We Are All the Same by Jim Wooten*

December

• All This Is So by John F. Roe
• Unfeeling by Ian Holding*
• The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb*

So we've got a couple of weeks left in 2010 so I'm sure I could add another book or two to the list.

What were your favourite reads of 2010? What's on your bookshelf for 2011?