Books Read in 2010 Listed Here

Books read in 2010!


Here's the full list, with all my original comments:


Rainy Days With Bear by Maureen Hull (reread)
A Christmas Walk by Zan Marie Steadham
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (reread before I see the movie!)
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling (reread)
Break on Through by Jill Murray
Writing Great Books for Young Adults by Regina Brooks (for review)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis (reread, of course)
Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings by Helene Boudreau
Songs of Love & Death (anthology, featuring a new short story by Diana Gabaldon)
Milo - Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze by Alan Silberberg (brilliant!)
Facing Fire by kc dyer
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L Sayers
50 Uses For Your Cat
Constantinople, City of the World's Desire by Philip Mansel
The Hating Game by Talli Roland
The Joy of Spooking Book One - Fiendish Deeds by PJ Bracegirdle
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief by Lilian Jackson Braun
Our houseparty story (set in Constantinople 1493; c. 200 000 words!)
beta read!
You're A Riot Andy Capp by Smythe
Trance by Linda Gerber
Yukon Ho! (Calvin and Hobbes) by Bill Watterson
The Exile by Diana Gabaldon
A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul by Boyar and Fleet
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire by Jason Goodwin (skimmed last few chapters since outside my time period)
Closed Circuit by Marte Brengle
The Diplomatic Platypus by Patrick Barrington (poem)
Hush Money by Susan Bischoff
Lord Rochester's Monkey by Graham Greene
The Lord God Made Them All by James Herriott (reread)
Our House Party Story - set in Cherry Hill, GA (reread)
Istanbul: The Imperial City by J. Freely (read up to my time period)
Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up
Dave Barry's Greatest Hits (remember Dave Barry? Columnist? What's he up to these days? He's hilarious! And at times quite touching as well. I need to find a second hand bookstore that has all his books!)
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
The Road to Yesterday by L. M. Montgomery (reread)
Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery (reread)
Rainbow Valley by L. M. Montgomery (reread)
Anne of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery (reread)
Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery (reread)
Anne of Windy Poplars by L. M. Montgomery (reread)
Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery (reread)
Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery (reread)
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (reread)
The Forbidden Rose by Joanna Bourne
Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich
Forsaken by Shadow by Kait Nolan
An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott (reread)
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (not overly impressed with the pov so far...and you know what, I dropped it.)
The Best of Dorothy Parker (Folio Society edition)
Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers
Looking for Alaska by John Green (brilliant! read it now!)
The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter
The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (reread)
The Cat Who Saw Red by Lilian Jackson Braun
L'elegance du herisson by Muriel Barbery
Exiles From the War by Jean Little
Just Let Me Lie Down by Kristin van Ogtrop
Hours at the Glasgow Art Galleries by T. C. F. Brotchie (skimmed)
Crime Stories from The Strand (Folio Society edition)
Love Will Keep Us Together by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt (the final book in the Miracle Girls series)
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (reread, of course)
Easter Walk by Zan Marie Steadham (Yay! for Forumites)
Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb (one of those rare instances where I saw the movie first) (the happy ending in the movie was better!)
Lord John and the Succubus by Diana Gabaldon (reread)
When the Going Was Good by Evelyn Waugh
Crazy For You by Jennifer Crusie
The Old Jailbird's Tale by Capek (short story)
With A Little Help From My Friends by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt (#3 in the Miracle Girls series - these books are amazing!)
Colours by J. Finlay (Folio Society) (skimmed for research)
The Secret of Sentinel Rock by Judith Silverthorne (part of the From Many Peoples series in association with the LaVonne Black Memorial Fund, Saskatchewan)
Dorothy Parker - The Viking Portable Collection
Yes, Prime Minister Volume II
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Folio Society Edition)
The Brief History of the Dead by K. Brockmeier
Poirot's Early Cases by Agatha Christie (reread)
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease (reread; I reread this one for research, since I know they did a lot of travelling in the story. I really ought to read more of his books, I didn't realise he'd written over a hundred!)
Naked in Knightsbridge by Nicky Schmidt
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien (reread)
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (Miracle Girls 2) by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (essay collection)
The Cat Who Turned On and Off by Lilian Jackson Braun
The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lilian Jackson Braun
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
The Olive Route by Carol Drinkwater
Miracle Girls by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt (read it! read it!)
Dear Canada A Christmas To Remember (Jean Little, Marsha Skrypuch, et al)

Comments

now that's a lot of cat books! I'd be interested to hear some of those 50 uses for your cat. Too funny!
Way to go on your list! I got 76 read.
Deniz Bevan said…
Thanks!
Some of the cat suggestions were quite cute - guaranteed to lift your spirits!
Hmm, you're right - I just posted my statistics and I didn't think to mention all the cat-related books [g]
Bandgeek252 said…
I like how some of these are rereads! It's the sign of good books.
We have so many books in common :) esp the Anne books... i'm a huge fan of Lucy Maud :)
Deniz Bevan said…
I'm a sucker for rereads - especially the Anne books [g]