2010 in books: What I read

Definitely not going to finish The American Language (HL Mencken) or The Metropolis Case (Matthew Gallaway) before midnight, so here, with little comment, and in no particular order, are the books that fed my brain between January and December (favorites bolded):

1. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nick Flynn
2. Sacred Games, Vikram Chanda
3. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
4. Lush Life, Richard Price
5. Sunset Park, Paul Auster
6. The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
7. Like Life, Lorrie Moore
8. Lit, Mary Karr
9. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
10. Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
11. Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker
12. Rumpus Women, compilation
13. C, Tom McCarthy
14. The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz
15. My Dog Tulip, JR Ackerley
16. Make Believe, Joanna Scott
17. The Manikin, Joanna Scott
18. The Black Minutes, Martin Solares
19. Half Life, Shelley Jackson
20. The Places in Between, Rory Stewart
21. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
22. A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert
23. Lowboy, John Wray
24. You Are Here, Meenakshi Madhavan
25. The White Mary, Kira Salak
26. Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk
27. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafron
28. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
29. Fugitives and Refugees, Chuck Palahniuk
30. The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos
31. The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon
32. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
33. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
34. The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
35. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson
36. Room, Emma Donoghue
37. The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Thomas Mullen
38. Possible Side Effects, Augusten Burroughs
39. A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
40. Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane
41. Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
42. The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
43. Bad Marie, Marcy Dermansky
44. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
45. Bright-Sided, Barbara Ehrenreich
46. Ghosted, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
47. Kapitoil, Teddy Wayne
48. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
49. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
50. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
51. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa
52. The Coast of Akron, Adrienne Miller
53. The Vagrants, Yiyun Li
54. Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid
55. The Territory of Men, Joelle Fraser
56. Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault
57. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
58. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Geoff Dyer
59. The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
60. Await Your Reply, Dan Chaon
61. War, Sebastian Junger
62. A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
63. The Ask, Sam Lipsyte
64. Little Bee, Chris Cleave

Hey, cool -- that's more than a book a week! Maybe next year, I'll make it an even 100. Not sure what to take away from this; apparently, I like women writers, I like fiction more than nonfiction, and I skew toward white American writers?

Anyone want to borrow a book? Lemme know. The lending library is open in Astoria. Also, my beloved book club has more or less disbanded. New year, new group?

Comments

[Sumeet]

Not as many as you but here is my list for 2010:

1. A Town Called Dehra- Ruskin Bond:

2. The Relunctant Fundamentalist- Mohsin Hamid

3. Anatomy of an Epidemic- Rober Whitaker

4. Tournamnet of Shadows- Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac

5. The Long Ships- Frans G Bengtsson

6. The Places In Between- Rory Stewart

7. The Buddha of Suburbia- Hanif Kureishi

8. Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky

9. Fathers and Sons- Ivan Turgenev

10. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom- T.E Lawrence

11. A High Wind in Jamaica- Richard Hughes

12. Viva Santiago- Colin Fernandes

13. Across the Balck Water- Mulk Raj Anand

14. Notes from a Small Room- Ruskin Bond

15. The Shadow of the Sun- Ryszard Kapuscinksi

16. Sea of Poppies- Amitav Ghosh

17. The New Age of Adventure- Anthology- National Geographic Adventure

18. Istanbul- Orhan Pamuk

19. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford

20. The Seige of Krishnapur- J.G Ballard

21. Homage to Catalonia- Goerge Orwell

22. The White Rock- Hugh Thomson

23. Untouchable- Mulk Raj Anand

24. Cities of Salt- Abdulrehman Munif

25. Blue Highways- William Least-Heat Moon

26. The Girl With the Dragon Tatto- Steig Larsson

27. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Steig Larsson

28. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest- Steig Larsson

29. A House for Mr. Biswas- V.S Naipaul

30. Last Days of the Incas- Kim Macqarrie

31. Driftnet- Lin Anderson

32. The Final Solution- Michael Chabon

33. Moth Smoke- Mohsin Hamid

34. Jupiter’s Travels- Ted Simon

35. Back Where I Came From- A.J Leibling

36. The Sheltering Sky- Paul Bowles

37. Behind the Wall- Colin Thubron

38. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi- Geoff Dyer

39. Pecked to Death by Ducks- Tim Cahill

40. War- Sebastian Junger