June was a good month. I read 20 books and I've officially completed the 100 + Reading Challenge hosted here. I upped this challenge by turning it into a 101010 book challenge (10 books from 10 categories in 2010), so I finished the 100 books, but also completed all 10 categories.
Favorite authors (10/10)
FEB
-"The Angel's Game" by: Carlos Ruiz Zafon - ★★★★☆
-"Paper Towns" by: John Green - ★★★★
-"The Sandman Vol 1: Preludes and Nocturnes" by: Neil Gaiman - ★★★☆
-"Juliet, Naked" by: Nick Hornby - ★★★★
-"Fantastic Mr. Fox" by: Roald Dahl - ★★★★
-"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by: Edgar Allan Poe - ★★★☆
MARCH
-"Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck - ★★★★
APRIL -"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by: Rudyard Kipling - ★★★
MAY "Silver Wedding" by: Maeve Binchy - ★★★
-"The Watsons" by: Jane Austen - ★★★★
Nonfiction / Travel Related (10/10)
JAN
-"The Wordy Shipmates" by: Sarah Vowell - ★★☆
FEB
-"Zeitoun" by: Dave Eggers -★★★★☆
MARCH
-"Bright-sided" by: Barbara Ehrenreich - ★★★☆
APRIL
-"A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906" by: Simon Winchester - ★★☆
-"The Happiness Project" by: Gretchen Rubin - ★★★★
-"Literary England" by: Richard Wilcox - ★★★
-"The Kitchen Confidential" by: Anthony Bourdain - ★★★★
-"The Poe Shadow" by: Matthew Pearl - ★★☆
MAY
-"Autobiography of a Face" by Lucy Grealy - ★★★★
JUNE -"Tales of the City" by Armistead Maupin - ★★☆
Recommended (10/10)
JAN
-"For One More Day" by: Mitch Albom - ★☆
FEB
-"The Bean Trees" by: Barbara Kingsolver- ★★★
-"The Mezzanine" by: Nicholson Baker - ★★★★
-"Holly's Inbox" by: Holly Denham - ★★★
MARCH
-"The Jungle Book" by: Rudyard Kipling - ★★★★
-"Over Sea, Under Stone" by: Susan Cooper - ★★★★
-"What Was Lost" by: Catherine O'Flynn - ★★★★
APRIL
-"The Little Stranger" by: Sarah Waters - ★★★★☆
-"Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History" by: Art Spiegelman - ★★★★☆
-"Beat the Reaper" by: Josh Bazell - ★★★★
Plays (esp. Pulitzer Prize Winners) (10/10)
JAN
-"Dinner with Friends" by: Donald Marguiles - ★★★
-"Glengarry Glen Ross" by: David Mamet - ★★★
-"Driving Miss Daisy" by: Alfred Uhry - ★★★★
FEB
-"August: Osage County" by: Tracy Letts - ★★★★
-"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by: Edward Albee - ★★★
-"A Doll's House" by: Henrik Ibsen - ★★★★☆
MARCH
-"RENT" by Jonathan Larson - ★★★★★
-"Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett - ★★★
APRIL
-"All's Well That Ends Well" by: William Shakespeare - ★★★☆
MAY
-"The Crucible" by Arthur Miller - ★★★★
Short Stories / Poetry Collections (10/10)
JAN
-"Carry On, Jeeves" by: P.G. Wodehouse - ★★★☆
FEB
-"Keats: Selected Poems" by: John Keats - ★★★★
-"Revolting Rhymes" by: Roald Dahl - ★★★★
APRIL
-"Heaven and Other Poems" by: Jack Kerouac - ★★★★
MAY
-"Blue Moon Over Thurman Street" by Ursula K. LeGuin - ★★☆
-"The Whore's Child and Other Stories" by Richard Russo - ★★★★★
JUNE
-"100 Poems by 100 Poets: An Anthology" by: Harold Pinter - ★★★★★
-"The Matisse Stories" by: A.S. Bryatt - ★★★☆
-"I Feel Bad About My Neck" by: Nora Ephron - ★★★☆
-"Tell Me the Truth About Love" by: W.H. Auden - ★★★★☆
1,000 Books (10/10)
JAN
-"Great Expectations" by: Charles Dickens - ★★★★★
FEB
-"Black Water" by: Joyce Carol Oates - ★★★☆
-"The Big Sleep" by: Raymond Chandler - ★★★
MARCH
-"Les Miserable" by: Victor Hugo - ★★★★☆
MAY
-"Silas Marner" by George Eliot - ★★★☆
JUNE
-"Candide" by: Voltaire - ★★★★
-"Fury" by: Salman Rushdie - ★★★
-"The Woman in White" by: Wilkie Collins - ★★★★☆
-"Cranford" by: Elizabeth Gaskell - ★★★★
-"The Nine Tailors" by: Dorothy L. Sayers - ★★★☆
Sequels (10/10)
JAN
-"G is for Gumshoe" by: Sue Grafton - ★★★
-"The Girl Who Played with Fire" by: Stieg Larsson - ★★★★☆
-"The Lost Symbol" by: Dan Brown - ★★☆
-"Unshaken" by: Francine Rivers - ★★★
MARCH
-"Anne of Ingleside" by: L.M. Montgomery - ★★★☆
-"Fourth Comings" by: Megan McCafferty - ★★★
MAY
-"The Slippery Slope" by: Lemony Snicket - ★★★
JUNE
-"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by: Stieg Larsson - ★★★★☆
-"Sacred" by: Dennis Lehane -
-"Ender in Exile" by: Orson Scott Card - ★★★★
Book Awards (Pulitzer, Booker, Orange) (10/10)
JAN -"The Color Purple" by: Alice Walker - ★★★★
-"The White Tiger" by: Aravind Adiga - ★★★
-"The Known World" by: Edward P. Jones - ★★★☆
FEB -"The Remains of the Day" by: Kazuo Ishiguro - ★★★★☆
APRIL
-"Olive Kitteridge" by: Elizabeth Strout - ★★★
-"Invisible Man" by: Ralph Ellison - ★★☆
-"Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began" by: Art Spiegelman - ★★★★★
MAY
-"Let the Great World Spin" by: Colum McCann - ★★★★☆
-"Blindness" by Jose Saramago - ★★★★☆
-"Holes" by Louis Sacher - ★★★★
Book Club (10/10)
MARCH
-"Blame" by: Michelle Huneven - ★★★☆
-"How Starbucks Saved My Life" by: Michael Gates Gill - ★★★☆
-"The Postmistress" by: Sarah Blake - ★★★☆
-"The Help" by: Kathryn Stockett - ★★★★☆
-"Still Alice" by: Lisa Genova - ★★★★☆
APRIL
-"In an Instant" by: Lee and Bob Woodruff - ★★★☆
-"The Heretic's Daughter" by: Kathleen Kent - ★★★★
-"The Unnamed" by: Joshua Ferris - ★★★★
MAY
-"The Lacuna" by: Barbara Kingsolver - ★★★★
-"The Little Giant of Aberdeen County" by Tiffany Baker - ★★★☆
Random Book Challenge (10/10)
JAN
-"Strait is the Gate" by: Andre Gide - ★★★
MARCH
-"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by: Zora Neale Hurston - ★★★☆
-"Blue Highways: A Journey into America" by: William Least Heat-Moon - ★★★★☆
-"Little Children" by: Tom Perrotta - ★★★★
-"Proof" by: David Auburn - ★★★★
APRIL
-"O Pioneers!" by: Willa Cather - ★★★★★
MAY
-"Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan - ★★★★☆
JUNE
-"Fool" by: Christopher Moore - ★★★★☆
-"The Lightning Thief" by: Rick Riordan - ★★★★
-"The House on Mango Street" by: Sandra Cisneros - ★★★★
