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

Books read in September.

Posting September Review list in the end of November is not good practice. I am so, so behind with my reviews. Anyway, links to reviews of books read in September:

1. So Many Ways To Begin by Jon McGregor
2. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
3. How To Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper
4. Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
5. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
6. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
7. South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
8. How I Paid For College by Marc Acito
9. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
10. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
11. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

A really great reading month.

Books read in August

* denotes reread.

1. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2. This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
3. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
4. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks
5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
6. Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl
7. Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
8. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
9. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides*
10. Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
11. Minor Robberies by Deb Olin Unferth

This is very, very late — but here are the links to reviews from my August reads. 

Books read in July

* denotes reread. 

Links to reviews:

1. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
2. How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
3. The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
5. The Sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint by William Shakespare
6. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
7. Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape by Sarah Manguso
8. How The Water Feels to the Fishes by Dave Eggers
9. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss*
10. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
11. Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling*
12. Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling*
14. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

So I definitely read more this month than any other month this year, which is great. I’m also in the middle of five other books started this month and still not finished, as well as two books I’ve been reading steadily for a while because I love them and I don’t want to finish them. So the final tally is higher than the fourteen listed here.

But man, look at the list. I read some great books this month.

Books Read in June

Who can believe that we’re halfway through the year? Including these books, I have read 44 books this year, and abandoned one. 

1. The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe
2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
3. Everyman by Philip Roth
4. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
5. Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
6. Looking for Alaska by John Green
7. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I’m actually a little disappointed in myself this month. I read vivaciously enough in London, but I should have finished at least one book since I got home and I haven’t. Damn you, World Cup. You have taken all my time away.

Books Read in May

Links to book reviews:

1. Why I Am So Wise by Nietzsche
2. Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
3. Gagarin Way by Gregory Burke
4. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
5. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
6. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
7. Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
8. One Day by David Nicholls

Not a bad reading amount considering it was my finals month.

Books Read in April

Links to book reviews:

1. The Innocent Mistress by Mary Pix
2. The First Ten Books by Confucius
3. As You Like It by Shakespeare
4. On Solitude (and other essays) by Michel de Montaigne
5. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
6. Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill
7. On Art and Life by John Ruskin
8. Seven Jewish Children by Caryl Churchill
9. About a Boy by Nick Hornby

Funnily enough, I didn’t finish a book for the first almost two weeks, but I’ve read nine books! Churchill’s Seven Jewish Children is very short, but even if you take that out that’s quite a lot of reading done. It would’ve been ten books (I’m almost finished Nietzsche) if it weren’t for the fact that I went out last night from 6pm-6am. Handy note: if you do that, be prepared for a weird, interesting, exhausting night.

Also, for everyone who’s asked, the links to my past book reviews are in my header if you got to the url for distantheartbeats. For now, here they are:

2009 Books | 2010: January, February, March |

Books Read in March

Links to my reviews from this month:

1. Paradise Lost by John Milton
2. The Art of War by Sun-Tzu
3. Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
4. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
5. Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
6. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
7. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Not too shabby. It is very, very bad that the three Shakespeares I was supposed to read this month aren’t one here, and neither is Mary Pix. They will absolutely be on the April list, because the essays are due in a week.

Enjoy.