2010 reading list - not best of, but all of ...
Here are the books I read in 2010, with links to reviews where I have them. This is an exhaustive, all of list, not a best of list ... although there are some "best of" in there ... you can guess! It feels like it was a year of lively reads indeed.
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Sink Trap - A Georgiana Neverall Mystery
by Christy Evans -
Matter
by Meredith Quartermain -
Invisible
by Paul Auster -
This is Water - Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
by David Foster Wallace -
Man Gone Down
by Michael Thomas -
The Museum of Innocence
by Orhan Pamuk -
Awake
by Elizabeth Graver -
The Ordeal of Oliver Airedale
by D.T. Carlisle -
The Bishop's Man
by Linden MacIntyre -
Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell -
The Children's Book
by A.S. Byatt -
Solar
by Ian McEwan -
The Last Woman
by John Bemrose -
Nox
by Anne Carson -
Chronic City
by Jonathan Lethem -
So Much For That
by Lionel Shriver -
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley -
Coal and Roses
by P.K. Page -
Pigeon
by Karen Solie -
Useless Dog
by Billy C. Clark -
The Certainty Dream
by Kate Hall -
The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle
by Monique Proulx
(translated by David Homel & Fred A. Reed) -
The Imperfectionists
by Tom Rachman -
Migration Songs
by Anna Quon -
Grain
by John Glenday -
The Sun-fish
by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain -
2666
by Roberto Bolano -
A Single Man
by Christopher Isherwood -
Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
by Randall Maggs -
Far To Go
by Alison Pick -
Gould's Book of Fish
by Richard Flanagan -
Fauna
by Alissa York -
Freedom
by Jonathan Franzen -
Sandra Beck
by John Lavery -
Annabel
by Kathleen Winter -
The Death of Donna Whalen
by Michael Winter -
Room
by Emma Donoghue -
Ghost Pine
by Jeff Miller -
L (and things come apart)
by Ian Orti -
The Bone Cage
by Angie Abdou -
Windstorm
by Joe Denham -
An Object of Beauty
by Steve Martin -
Burley Cross Postbox Theft
by Nicola Barker
I start 2011 with the following books started in 2010 and still in progress:
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Voltaire's Bastards
by John Ralston Saul -
Maggot: Poems
by Paul Muldoon -
Patient Frame
by Steven Heighton - The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
In 2009, I read 52 books, inspired a lot by great discussions and suggestions I found amongst the book blogging and reader community on Twitter. I didn't match my 2009 total - not even close, really ... but then, I have to ask again (as I did a year ago) are total numbers of books or pages really the point? What do you think?