What I Read in 2010

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Last year I started keeping a list of books that I read all the way through. At the end of the year it was 54 books. I was surprised because I used to read a lot more than that, and I vowed to do better this year. I just counted the books on this years list. 54 books. I couldn't figure it out until I remembered how many books I had tossed aside after the first few chapters. I wonder if it was the books I chose, or just me having less patience for anything that didn't grab my attention right from the opening page. I'm not much of a genre reader despite my love of fantasy and science fiction movies, so I'm not surprised there's only one really genre book on this years list. And of course this doesn't include the mountain of fanfic I read. (Newest obsession is Sherlock; there's some really good fic turning up there). So anyway, here's the list of books I read in 2010. I probably kept about half of them, and the rest went into the barrels of Friends of The Library.

Neverland by Piers Dudgeon
Under In The Mere by Catherynne M. Valente
The Emancipator's Wife by Barbara Hambly
Possessing The Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
Crimson Joy by Robert B. Parker
Thin Air by Robert B. Parker
Quartet In Autumn by Barbara Pym (re-read)
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym (re-read)
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (re-read)
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym (re-read)
Crampton Hodnet by Barbary Pym (re-read)
Virginia Woolf and the Raverats by Wm Pryor
Rich Was Better by Philip Van Rensallear
It's Been a Good Life by Isaac Asimov
Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler
The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Virginia Woolf by Nigel Nicolson
Another Name for Madness by Marion Roach
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume II
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
A Guilty Thing Surpsised by Ruth Rendell
A Sight For Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
Just an Ordinary Day by Shirley Jackson
The Confessions of Elizabeth Von S. by Gillian Freeman
The Sister by Poppy Adams
Eddy: The Life of Edward Sackville-West by Michael De-la-noy
Look Me In The Eye by John Elder Robison
Lost Horizon/Goodbye Mister Chips/Random Harvest by James Hilton
The Heart to Artemis by Bryher
A Very Close Conspiracy; Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf by Jane Dunn
Secret Lives by E. F. Benson
Period Piece by Gwen Raverat
The Young Apollo by Louis Auchincloss
Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
Boy Alone by Karl Tero Greenfeld
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
Passion and Prejudice by Sallie Bingham
The Art of Scandal by Douglass Shand-Tucci
It Ain't All About the Cookin' by Paula Deen
The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West
Gunn's Golden Rules by Tim Gunn
The Art of Racing in The Rain by Garth Stein
Cleopatra's Sister by Penelope Lively
Undue Influence by Anita Brookner
Forward From Here by Reeve Lindbergh
Appetites by Geneen Roth
Last Wish by Betty Rollin
703 by Nancy Makin
Brief Lives by Anita Brookner
If I Live To Be 100 by Neenah Ellis
Life in Lower Slaughter by Robert G. Deindorfer
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffennegger
The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie o'Farrell

Comments

[dargie.livejournal.com]

Good list. I didn't keep track this year but I ought to for next. A number of these have been recommended to me. I know what you mean about putting books aside. I have a few that aren't really bad, I'm just having a hard time reading them. Eh...