January 3, 2011

A list of the 74 books I read in 2010. I meant to read 75 but when I had finished up what I had believed was the 75th I discovered that I had counted one of my books twice. No big deal, I didn't expect to read as many books as I did, but still a little disappointing.

All the books are rated from 1-10. 1 being awful, 5 being not good but not too terrible either, 7 being good and any number higher than 7 means I loved it.

Pretty soon, I'll write a post about my favorite books from last year.

1. Junot Diaz. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction. 9

2. Malcom Gladwell. What the Dog Saw. Non-fiction. 9

3. Christopher Seitz. Figured Out. Non-fiction - theology. 3

4. Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games. Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy. 7

5. Suzanne Collins. Catching Fire. Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy 6.5

6. David Sedaris. Me Talk Pretty One Day. Memoir - Hilarity. 8.5

7. Bernhard Schlink. The Reader. Fiction.8.5

8. Mark Haddon. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. Fiction. 7.5

9. Wendell Berry. Standing by Words. Non-fiction - Essays. 8

10. Cormac McCarthy. No Country for Old Men. Fiction. 9

11. - 17. C.S. Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia. Fiction - Children. 7

18. C.S. Lewis. The Great Divorce. Fiction. 7.5

19. C.S. Lewis. Out of the Silent Planet. Fiction - Sci- Fi. 7

20. C.S. Lewis. Perelandra. Fiction - Sci-Fi. 8

21. C.S. Lewis. Till We Have Faces. Fiction.10

22. Ronald Takaki. A Different Mirror. Non-fiction-History. 8.5

23. Patricia Raybon. My First White Friend. Memoir. 7

24. A.J. Jacobs. The Know-It-All. Memoir. 8

25. Mary Doria Russell. The Sparrow. Fiction - Sci-Fi, Theological.7

26. W.S. Merwin. The Shadow of Sirius. The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry. 9

27. Geraldine Brooks. March. The 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction. 6

28. H.G. Wells. War of the Worlds. Fiction - Classic. 7.5

29. J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Fiction. 10

30. Jhumpa Lahiri. Interpreter of Maladies. The 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction. 8.5

31. Philip Schultz. Failure. One of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry. 10

32. Rae Armantrout. Versed. The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry. 6

33. Richard Russo. Empire Falls. The 2002 Pulitzer prize winner for fiction. 9

34. Jon Krakauer. Into the Wild. Non-fiction - biography. 7.5

35. Stephen Lawhead. Hood. Fiction - Fantasy. 6.5

36. Norman Ollestad. Crazy for the Storm. Memoir - Survival. 7

37. Lawrence Ferlinghetti. A Coney Island of the Mind. Poetry. 9

38. William Young. The Shack. Fiction - Theology. 2

39. Francis Fukuyama. Our Posthuman Future. Non-fiction - Bioethics. 8

40. Robert Hass. Time and Materials. One of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry. 7

41. Erich Maria Remarque. All Quiet on the Western Front. Fiction - Classic. 9.5

42. David Benioff. City of Thieves. Fiction. 8.5

43. C.K. Williams. Repair. The 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry. 9

44. T.S. Eliot. The Waste Land and Other Poems. Poetry. 6

45. Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon. A General Theory of Love. Psychology - Relationships. 9

46. Lisa Genova. Still Alice. Fiction. 10

47. Howard Dully. My Lobotomy. Memoir - Survival. 7

48. Harry Schaumburg. False Intimacy. Theology. 2

49. Claudia Emerson. Late Wife. The 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry. 7.5

50. Robert Jordan. The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World. Fiction - Fantasy. 10.

51. Robert Jordan. The Wheel of Time: The Great Hunt. Fiction - Fantasy. 10

52. Robert Jordan. The Wheel of Time: The Dragon Reborn. Fiction - Fantasy.10

53. Robert Jordan. The Wheel of Time: The Shadow Rising. Fiction - Fantasy. 10

54. David Sedaris. When You are Engulfed in Flames. Non-Fiction - Biography. 7

55. Debbie Hindle and Marta Smith.Personality Development: A Psychoanalytic Perspective. Non-Fiction - Psychology. 8

56. Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones. Fiction. 8

57. Cormac McCarthy. The Road. Fiction. 9

58. Italo Calvino. Invisible Cities. Fiction. 9.5

59. Markus Zusak. The Book Thief. Fiction. 7.5

60. Christopher Paolini. Eragon. Fiction - Fantasy. 8

61. Brandon Sanderson. The Stormlight Archive: The Way of Kings. Fiction - Fantasy.10

62. Robert Jordan. The Wheel of Time: Towers of Midnight. Fiction - Fantasy. 10

63. Mary Doria Russell. The Children of God. Fiction - Sci-fi. 7

64. J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Fiction - Fantasy. 8

65. Cormac McCarthy. All the Pretty Horses. Fiction 8

66. Kurt Vonnegut. A Man Without a Country. 6

67. Henri Nouwen. Return of the Prodigal Son. Theology. 5

68. Stephen Dunn. Different Hours. 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry. 6.5

69. Elizabeth Strout. Olive Kitteridge. 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction. 10

70. David Wallin. Attachment in Psychotherapy. Non-fiction - Psychology. 9

71. John Twelve Hawks. The Traveler. Fiction - Sci-fi. 6.5

72. Stephen Crane. The Red Badge of Courage. Fiction - Classic. 8

73. Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Starting from San Francisco. Poetry. 8.5

74. Ted Kooser. Delights and Shadows. 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry. 9

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