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2010 in Books

So here’s my complete 2010 reading list, with links to reviews. I’m sorry it’s four months late! But better late than never. My favourite reads from 2010 are listed HERE.

* denotes reread.

  1. A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark
  2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  3. Dear Me: A Letter To My Sixteen Year Old Self edited by Joseph Galliano
  4. Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
  5. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
  6. Housekeeping Vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
  7. Why I Write by George Orwell
  8. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
  9. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
  10. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  11. The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook by Tarek Malouf
  12. Shakespeare Wrote For Money by Nick Hornby
  13. Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
  14. 31 Songs by Nick Hornby
  15. Paradise Lost by John Milton
  16. The Art of War by Sun-Tzu
    Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier (unfinished)
  17. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  18. Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
  19. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
  20. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
  21. The Innocent Mistress by Mary Pix
  22. The First Ten Books by Confucius
  23. As You Like It by Shakespeare
  24. On Solitude (and Other Essays) by Michel de Montaigne
  25. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
  26. Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill
  27. On Art and Life by John Ruskin
  28. Seven Jewish Children by Caryl Churchill
  29. About a Boy by Nick Hornby
  30. Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche
  31. Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
  32. Gagarin Way by Gregory Burke
  33. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  34. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  35. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
  36. Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
  37. One Day by David Nicholls
  38. The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe
  39. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  40. Everyman by Philip Roth
  41. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  42. Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
  43. Looking for Alaska by John Green
  44. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  45. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
  46. How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
  47. The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
  48. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
  49. The Sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint by Shakespeare
  50. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
  51. Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape by Sarah Manguso
  52. How The Water Feels to the Fishes by Dave Eggers
  53. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss*
  54. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
  55. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J K Rowling*
  56. Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
  57. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling*
  58. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
  59. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  60. This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
  61. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
  62. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks
  63. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  64. Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl
  65. Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
  66. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  67. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides*
  68. Both Ways is The Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
  69. Minor Robberies by Deb Olin Unferth
  70. So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
  71. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  72. How To Talk To a Widower by Jonathan Tropper
  73. Sum: Tales From The Afterlives by David Eagleman
  74. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
  75. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
  76. South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
  77. How I Paid For College by Marc Acito
  78. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  79. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
  80. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
  81. Lowboy by John Wray
  82. Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling*
  83. The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut
  84. Love Letters of Great Men edited by Ursula Doyle
  85. The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
  86. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
  87. The Women Who Got Away by John Updike
  88. First Love by Ivan Turgenev
  89. Pythagoras & His Theorem by Paul Strathern
  90. Cathedral by Raymond Carver
  91. The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
  92. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  93. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  94. You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers
  95. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
  96. Half in Love by Maile Meloy
  97. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton
  98. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
  99. Percy Jackson and The Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan
  100. Percy Jackson and The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
  101. Cures for Love by Stendhal
  102. The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
  103. Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs and Some Other Things by Various Authors
  104. Percy Jackson and The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
  105. Percy Jackson and The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
  106. Percy Jackson and The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
  107. The Song House by Trezza Azzopardi
  108. Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
  109. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  110. The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen
  111. Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth
  112. Coming Up For Air by George Orwell
  113. By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
  114. Room by Emma Donoghue
  115. Longitude by Dava Sobel
  116. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  117. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
  118. Half a Life by Darin Strauss
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  1. theinspirationtree said: congrats on getting it finished! :D
  2. littlemissprincessca reblogged this from distantheartbeats
  3. oliveryeh said: Holy bovine. Well done.
  4. aldrin said: Boy, did you read a lot!
  5. peculiaritea said: That’s amazing. :)
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