2010 READING LIST

[jackshoegazer]

JANUARY

01) The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (A)ѧ
02) Don't Sleep There Are Snakes: A Life in the Amazon by Daniel Everett (B)ѧ

FEBRUARY

03) To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson & the Quest for a New World Order by T.J. Knock (A-)ѧ
04) On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (A)ѧ

MARCH

05) The Ask and the Answer: Chaos Walking Book II by Patrick Ness (B)
06) IT by Stephen King (A)

APRIL

07) American Nerd: The Story of my People by Benjamin Nugent (C+)ѧ
08) If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell (A)ѧ

MAY

09) My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor (A)ѧ
10) The Given Day by Dennis Lehane (A)

JUNE

11) When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (C+)ѧ
12) Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut (B)
13) Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin (A-)ѧ

JULY

14) The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol.1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (A+)
15) The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale (A)ѧ
16) Drood by Dan Simmons (A)

AUGUST

17) The Terror by Dan Simmons (A+)
18) No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (A)

SEPTEMBER

19) Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut (A)∞
20) Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (A)
21) Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje (A)

OCTOBER

22) Pentecost by David Edgar (B)
23) Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (C+)
24) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (A+)

NOVEMBER

25) The Half-Inch Himalayas by Agha Shahid Ali (A)
26) Welcome to Our Hillbrow by Phaswane Mpe (B-)
27) Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon (A)

DECEMBER

28) The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (A)
29) Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness (...in progress)

∞previously read | ѧnonfiction

Comments

[strider7901.livejournal.com]

Omnivore really opened my eyes! Definitely changed the way I viewed organic stores.

[nearlymay.livejournal.com]

This is a good idea! I will do it.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I just added tags going back to my lists fore previous years. It's funny watching my yearly lists go from 50+ books and instantly dropping to 30 or less when I went back to school. And by funny, I mean sad.