Books I’ve read (2010)

This is a list of the novels, etc. that I read in 2010.  When I say books, I was originally thinking in terms of novels (more words then pictures, not instructional, etc.), but after reading about two dozen graphic novels, I realized that I should have been keeping track of them too, if only so that I remember some of the really amazing graphic novels (*GN) I’ve read. So, I started keeping track of them in mid May (2010).

The embedded links go to the few blog posts I have done about the book in question. They are not proper reviews – I just spew a bunch of random thoughts about the book, why I read it, if it was fabulous, etc.

2010

  1. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (Douglas Coupland)
  2. Charmed Life (Diana Wynne Jones)
  3. The Lives of Christopher Chant (Diana Wynne Jones)
  4. Conrad’s Fate (Diana Wynne Jones)
  5. Nikolski (Nicolas Dickner)
  6. Witch Week (Diana Wynne Jones)
  7. Magician’s of Caprona (Diana Wynne Jones)
  8. Power of Three (Diana Wynne Jones)
  9. … Startled by his Furry Shorts (Louise Rennison)
  10. … Then he Ate my Boy Entrancers (Louise Rennison)
  11. Wicked (Gregory Maguire)
  12. The Prophet of Yonwood (Jeanne DuPrau)
  13. Love is a Many Trousered Thing (Louise Rennison)
  14. Stop in the Name of Pants! (Louise Rennison)
  15. Are These my Basoomas I See Before Me? (Louise Rennison)
  16. Incarceron (Catherine Fisher)
  17. Ten Sorry Tales (Mick Jackson)
  18. Five Boys (Mick Jackson)
  19. The Walking Dead (Robert Kirkman, et al.) *GN
  20. Just a Geek (Wil Wheaton)
  21. I’ve also read about two dozen odds and ends of graphic novels that I hadn’t been keeping track of, which is too bad because some of them were really great. They included:
    • Fables: vol 1, Legends in Exile (Bill Willingham) *GN
    • Ooku, the Inner Chambers – vol. 1 (Fumi Yoshinaga) *GN
    • Ooku, the Inner Chambers – vol. 2 (Fumi Yoshinaga) *GN
    • The Three Paradoxes (Paul Hornschemeier) *GN
    • Valerian (J.-C. Mezieres) *GN
  22. Ooku, the Inner Chambers – vol. 3 (Fumi Yoshinaga) *GN
  23. The Oracle Betrayed (Catherine Fisher)
  24. Zeus: King of the Gods (George O’Connor) *GN
  25. Jack of Fables: vol. 2, Jack of Hearts (Bill Willingham) *GN
  26. The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick) (half written word, half *GN)
  27. Nasty, Brutish, and Short: The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Animal Sex and Other Weird Behavious (Pat Senson)
  28. Fables:  vol 3, Storybook Love (Bill Willingham) *GN
  29. Fables: vol 4, March of the Wooden Soldiers (Bill Willingham) *GN
  30. The Houdini Box (Brian Selznick)
  31. Leviathan (book 1 of the Leviathan trilogy) (Scott Westerfeld)
  32. The Graveyeard Book (Neil Gaiman)
  33. The Secret Hour (book one of the Midnighters series) (Scott Westerfeld)
  34. Brody’s Ghost, Book 1 (Crilley Mark) *GN
  35. Neil Young’s Greendale (Josh Dysart) *GN
  36. Grendel (John Champlin Gardner Jr.)
  37. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Daniel Quinn)
  38. Safety and Security for Women Who Travel (Sheila Swan)
  39. Fragile Things (Neil Gaiman)
  40. My Mommy is in American and she met Buffalo Bill (Jean Regnaud) *GN
  41. Tales of Adam (Daniel Quinn)
  42. Koko Be Good (Jen Wang) *GN
  43. Behemoth (book 2 of the Leviathan trilogy) (Scott Westerfeld)
  44. The Factory Voice (Jeanette Lynes)
  45. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

Totals: 34 books, 16 graphic novels, and probably about half a dozen graphic novels that I read before I started adding them to this list. Oh, and countless books and magazines that were non-fiction (instructional, etc.) or that I didn’t finish reading.

For a more up-todate look at what I’ve been reading, see my Goodreads account.

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