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Jan 9, 2010 3:08:43 PM Archived Entry: "Books read, 2010"

Last year I failed to read 50 books, though I got really close to it with 47 total, including some really good classics. I'm joining a book club again this year, so I should be able to get my total up a little more - or at least add to the list of quality books I'm reading.

January
1. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith (2*)
2. Steel Remains - Richard Morgan (3 1/2 *)
3. From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris (2 1/2*)
February
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston (4*)
5. Managing the Test People - Judy McKay
6. Saratoga Fleshpot: A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery - Stephen Dobyns
7. Coram Boy - Jamila Gavin
March
8. Dead and Gone - Charlaine Harris
9. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
April
10. Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
11. Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
12. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
13. Empress of Mars - Kage Baker
May
14. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
15. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
16. Grave Secret - Charlaine Harris
June
17. Our Tragic Universe - Scarlett Thomas
18. The Scar - China Mieville
July
19. Delphine - Madame De Stael
20. What Would Barbra Do: How Musicals Changed My Life - Emma Brockes
21. Fuller Memorandum - Charles Stross
August
22. Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
23. Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
24. Persuasion - Jane Austen
25. Shockheaded Peter - Heinrich Hoffman
26. Don't Tell Alfred - Nancy Mitford
27. Count Karlstein - Phillip Pullman
28. Wind in the Willows - Grahame Greene
September
29. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
30. Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris
31. The City and The City - China Mieville
October
32. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
33. Budayeen Nights - George Alec Effinger
34. Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
November
35. Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers
36. Vanity Fair - William Thackeray
37. Zero History - William S Gibson
38. The Blessing - Nancy Mitford
39. Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life - Bryan Lee O'Halley
December
40. Highland Fling - Nancy Mitford
41. Christmas Pudding - Nancy Mitford
42. Pigeon Pie - Nancy Mitford
43. A Touch of Dead - Charlaine Harrise
44. Women of Nell Gwynne's - Kage Baker

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