Bookish thoughts on everything from literary fiction to classics to nonfiction.
2010 Books
1) 100 Poems by 100 Poets: An Anthology by Harold Pinter - ★★★★★
2) The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson - ★★★★
3) All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot - ★★★★☆
4) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque - ★★★☆
5) All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare - ★★★☆
6) The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - ★★★★☆
7) Anne of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery - ★★★☆
8) Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid - ★★★
9) April 1865 by Jay Winik - ★★★★
10) The Arrival by Shaun Tan - ★★★★
11) August: Osage County by Tracy Letts - ★★★☆
12) Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy - ★★★★
13) The Battle of the Labyrinth (4) by Rick Riordan - ★★★★
14) The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver - ★★★
15) Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell - ★★★★
16) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - ★★★★
17) Beneath a Marble Sky John Shors - ★★★★
18) The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler - ★★★
19) Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates - ★★★☆
20) Blame by Michelle Huneven - ★★★☆
21) Blindness by Jose Saramago - ★★★★☆
22) Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon - ★★★★☆
23) Blue Moon Over Thurman Street by Ursula K. Le Guin - ★★☆
24) Book Lust To Go by Nancy Pearl - ★★★★☆
25) The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly - ★★★★☆
26) Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry - ★★☆
27) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - ★★★★★
28) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne - ★★★☆
29) Briar Rose by Jane Yolen - ★★★★★
30) Bright-sided by Barbara Ehrenreich - ★★★
31) Candide by Voltaire - ★★★★
32) Cannery Row by John Steinbeck - ★★★★
33) Carrie by Stephen King - ★★★
34) Carry On, Jeeves P.G. Wodehouse - ★★★☆
35) The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans - ★★
36) The City of Thieves by David Benioff - ★★★★☆
37) The Color Purple by Alice Walker - ★★★★
38) Columbine by Dave Cullen - ★★★★☆
39) Common Sense by Glenn Beck - ★★☆
40) Counterfeit Gods by Timothy Keller - ★★★★
41) A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester - ★★☆
42) Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell - ★★★★☆
43) The Crucible by Arthur Miller - ★★★★
44) The Dark is Rising By Susan Cooper - ★★★★
45) Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies - ★★★★
46) A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen - ★★★★☆
47) The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes - ★★★★
48) Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry - ★★★★
49) Dubliners by James Joyce - ★★★★
50) The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery - ★★★★
51) Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card - ★★★★
52) The End of the Affair Graham Greene - ★★★★
53) Fahrenheit 451: graphic novel by Ray Bradbury - ★★★★☆
54) Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl - ★★★★
55) Fingersmith by Sarah Waters - ★★★★
56) The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin - ★★★★
57) Fool by Christopher Moore - ★★★★☆
58) For One More Day by Mitch Albom - ★☆
59) Fourth Comings by Megan McCafferty - ★★☆
60) From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury - ★★☆
61) Fury by Salman Rushdie - ★★★
62) The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl - ★★★★
63) G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton - ★★★
64) Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland - ★★★★
65) Girls’ Poker Night Jill A. Davis - ★★★
66) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson - ★★★★☆
67) The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson - ★★★★☆
68) Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet - ★★★
69) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - ★★★★★
70) Great House by Nicole Krauss - ★★★★☆
71) Greenwitch by Susan Cooper - ★★★★☆
72) The Grim Grotto (11) by Lemony Snicket - ★★★☆
73) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - ★★★★★
74) Half Magic by Edward Eager - ★★★★★
75) The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin - ★★★★☆
76) The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson - ★★★★
77) Heaven and Other Poems by Jack Kerouac - ★★★☆
78) The Help by Kathryn Stockett - ★★★★☆
79) The Heretic's Daughter by: Kathleen Kent - ★★★★
80) H is for Homicide by Sue Grafton - ★★★☆
81) Holes by Louis Sacher - ★★★★
82) Holly's Inbox by Holly Denham - ★★★
83) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford - ★★★★☆
84) The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros - ★★★★
85) How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill - ★★★☆
86) I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith - ★★★★★
87) I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron - ★★★☆
88) If I Stay by Gayle Forman - ★★★★
89) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - ★★★★☆
90) In an Instant by Lee and Bob Woodruff - ★★★☆
91) The Inferno by Dante Alighieri - ★★★☆
92) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - ★★☆
93) Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier - ★★★★
94) Juliet, Naked by: Nick Hornby - ★★★★
95) The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling - ★★★★
96) Keats: Selected Poems by John Keats - ★★★★
97) The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara - ★★★★☆
98) King Lear by William Shakespeare - ★★★★
99) Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain - ★★★★
100) The Known World by Edward P. Jones - ★★★☆
101) The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver - ★★★★
102) The Last Olympian (5) by Rick Riordan - ★★★★☆
103) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Vol. 1 by Alan Moore - ★★★★
104) Les Miserable by Victor Hugo - ★★★★☆
105) Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann - ★★★★☆
106) The Lightning Thief (1) by Rick Riordan - ★★★★
107) Linger by Maggie Stiefvater - ★★★
108) Literary England by Richard Wilcox - ★★★
109) The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker - ★★★☆
110) The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters - ★★★★☆
111) Little Children by Tom Perrotta - ★★★★
112) The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster - ★★★
113) The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James - ★★★★☆
114) The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown - ★★☆
115) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - ★★★★☆
116) The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl - ★★★★
117) Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson - ★★★★
118) The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett - ★★★★
119) Matchless: A Christmas Story by Gregory Maguire - ★★★
120) The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt - ★★★☆
121) Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman - ★★★★☆
122) Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman - ★★★★★
123) The Maze Runner by James Dashner - ★★★☆
124) The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Oritz Cofer - ★★★☆
125) The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker - ★★★★
126) Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - ★★★★
127) Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot - ★★
128) The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe - ★★★☆
129) My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier - ★★★★☆
130) Naked by David Sedaris - ★★☆
131) Nation by Terry Pratchett - ★★★★☆
132) Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan - ★★★★☆
133) The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers - ★★★★
134) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - ★★★
135) One Day by David Nicholls - ★★★★
136) O Pioneers! by Willa Cather - ★★★★★
137) Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper - ★★★★
138) Packing for Mars by Mary Roach - ★★★☆
139) Paper Towns by John Green - ★★★★☆
140) The Passage by Justin Cronin - ★★★☆
141) The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett - ★★★★☆
142) The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl - ★★
143) The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby - ★★★★★
144) The Postmistress by Sarah Blake - ★★★☆
145) The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain - ★★★
146) Promises to Keep by: Jane Green - ★★★☆
147) Pronto by Elmore Leonard - ★★★★
148) Proof by David Auburn - ★★★★
149) Reel Culture by Mimi O'Connor - ★★★★☆
150) A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick - ★★
151) The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro - ★★★★☆
152) RENT by Jonathan Larson - ★★★★★
153) Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling - ★★★★
154) Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving - ★★★
155) The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum - ★★★★
156) Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl - ★★★★
157) Room by Emma Donoghue - ★★★★★
158) Run by Ann Patchett - ★★★★
159) Sacred by Dennis Lehane - ★★★
160) The Sandman, Vol 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman - ★★★☆
161) The Sea of Monsters (2) by Rick Riordan - ★★★★
162) Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde - ★★★★☆
163) Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater - ★★★★
164) The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer - ★★★
165) Silas Marner by George Eliot - ★★★☆
166) Silent Night by Stanley Weintraub - ★★★☆
167) Silver Wedding by Maeve Binchy - ★★★
168) Slam by: Nick Hornby - ★★★
169) The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket - ★★★
170) Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson - ★★★★
171) Sphere Michael Crichton - ★★★
172) Starting Your Marriage Right by Dennis Rainey - ★★★☆
173) Still Alice by Lisa Genova - ★★★★☆
174) Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide - ★★★
175) Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky - ★★★
176) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley - ★★★★☆
177) Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin - ★★☆
178) Tell Me the Truth About Love by W.H. Auden - ★★★★☆
179) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - ★★★☆
180) The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - ★★★
181) A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley - ★★★☆
182) Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis - ★★★
183) The Titan's Curse (3) by Rick Riordan - ★★★★
184) The Tower, The Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart - ★★★★
185) Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - ★★★☆
186) Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt - ★★★★★
187) The Twits by Roald Dahl - ★★★
188) The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris - ★★★★
189) Unshaken by Francine Rivers - ★★★
190) The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides - ★★★☆
191) Voltaire’s Calligrapher by Pablo De Santis - ★★
192) Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett - ★★
193) War by Sebastian Junger - ★★★★
194) The Watsons by Jane Austen - ★★★★
195) The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley - ★★★★☆
196) What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell - ★★★★☆
197) What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn - ★★★★
198) The White Seal by Rudyard Kipling - ★★★
199) The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - ★★★
200) Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson - ★☆
201) The Whore's Child and Other Stories by Richard Russo - ★★★★★
202) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee - ★★☆
203) The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry - ★★★★
204) The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - ★★★★☆
205) The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell - ★★☆
206) World More Full of Weeping by Robert J. Wiersema - ★★★★
207) Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean - ★★★
208) Zeitoun by Dave Eggers - ★★★★☆
All books reviewed on my Library Thing account here.
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