How Many Books Read in 2010: Completed a total of 26 (this does not include the handful I started and stopped in disgust, or stopped with intentions of picking back up later).
Fiction/Non-Fiction Ratio: 22/4
Male/Female Authors: 11/13
Favorite Book Read: This is difficult. I read four books that really blew me away this year. I’d say it is a tie between The Book Thief and House of Leaves. They would be followed in no particular order by I Am The Messenger and In the Lake of the Woods.
Least Favorite: Well, not counting the ones I started and threw across the room without completing them…How To Write A Damn Good Novel, followed close behind by Beloved. The “how to” book was just terrible and I disagreed with a lot of the man’s opinions on writing, but it was a required read for my MA program.
Oldest Book Read: Tricky…John Keats’ letters to Fanny Brawne were written around 1819-1820, but Bright Star, a collection of his letters, was published in September 2009. The Book of Werewolves was originally published in 1865. I’m going to say Bright Star only because the letters are older than the werewolf book (although the werewolf accounts within that book date back much earlier).
Newest Book Read: Matched, pub. Nov 2010
Longest Book Title: How To Write A Damn Good Novel
Shortest Book Title: Room
How Many Re-Reads: Don’t think I have any for 2010, although I did re-read parts of Wuthering Heights.
Most Books by One Author This Year: Markus Zusak gets 2 and Tasha Alexander gets 2
Books in Translation: 1 – Beauty and Sadness
And How Many Books Were From the Library: Sadly, none. I need to get my library pin set up with my ereader. It’s so easy just to download books that I rarely make a trip to the book store or library, but I should start downloading library books. That will be a goal for 2011, to support my library again.
Best Book Published in 2010: The Passage
The 2010 List:
Matched, Ally Condie (pub. 2010)
Room, Emma Donoghue (pub. 2010)
Eat to Live, Joel Fuhrman
I Am The Messenger, Markus Zusak
Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender (pub. 2010)
The Passage, Justin Cronin (pub. 2010)
The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
Plainsong, Kent Haruf
How To Write A Damn Good Novel, James Frey
In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O’Brien
Beauty and Sadness, Yasunari Kawabata
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Shiver, Maggie Stiefvater
A Poisoned Season, Tasha Alexander
And Only To Deceive, Tasha Alexander
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
A Gathering of Old Men, Ernest Gaines
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Too Good to Be True, Kristan Higgins
The Book of Werewolves, Sabine Baring-Gould
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Bright Star, John Keats
The Care and Taming of a Rogue, Suzanne Enoch
