2010 Book List
I didn't do as good as last year in terms of quantity or quality but I wouldn't deam it an unsuccessful year by any means.
2010 Book List
January
1. The Laughing Corpse - Laurell K. Hamilton: 3.5/5
2. Circus of the Damned - Laurell K. Hamilton: 3.5/5
3. Battle Royale - Koushun Takami: 4.5/5
4. Girl Walking Backwards - Bett Williams: 4/5
5. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood: 4/5
6. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin: 3/5
7. Magic or Madness - Justine Larbalestier: 3/5
8. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris: 4/5
9. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky: 4/5
10. Three Little Words - Ashley Rhodes-Courter: 4/5
11. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters: 4.5/5
12. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte: 4.5/5
February
13. The Devil You Know - Poppy Z. Brite: 3.5/5
14. Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes: 4/5
15. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang - Joyce Carol Oates: 4/5
16. Liar - Justine Larbalestier: 3/5
17. My Heartbeat - Garret Freymann-Weyr: 3/5
18. The Picture of Dorian Gray (re-read) - Oscar Wilde: 5/5
19. Saints of Augustine - P. E. Ryan: 2/5
20. Wicked Gentlemen - Ginn Hale: 2/5
March
21. Are You Loathsome Tonight? - Poppy Z. Brite: 3.5/5
22. The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan: 4/5
23. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D. Levitt: 4/5
24. Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters - Jessica Valenti: 3.5/5
25. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad: 1/5
26. Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer: 4/5
27. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey: 4.5/5
28. The Hammerhead Ranch Hotel - Tim Dorsey: 2/5
29. The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories - Henry James: 3/5
April
30. The Lunatic Café - Laurell K. Hamilton: 3/5
31. Audition - Ryu Murakami: 3.5/5
32. Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food - Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson: 4/5
33. The Elements of Style - William Strunk and E. B. White: 3.5/5
34. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson: 3/5
35. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry: 4.5/5
36. The Dead and the Gone - Susan Beth Pfeffer: 4/5
37. Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green and David Levithan: 4/5
May
38. Beautiful Malice - Rebecca James: 2/5
39. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding: 3/5
40. Columbine - Dave Cullen: 5/5
41. Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman: 3/5
42. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams: 3/5
43. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 4/5
44. Keeping You a Secret (re-read) - Julie Anne Peters: 5/5
45. Life of Pi - Yann Martel: 4/5
46. Shockproof Sydney Skate - Marijane Meaker: 1/5
47. Skeletons - Joseph Sims: 3/5
June
48. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - Eric Larson: 3/5
49. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture - Ariel Levy: 4.5/5
50. Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill: 3.5/5
51. Hunted - P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast: 1/5
52. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde: 4/5
53. It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini: 2/5
54. Mystic River - Dennis Lehane: 4.5/5
55. The White Road - Lynn Flewelling: 4.5/5
56. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson: 3/5
57. The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler: 4/5
58. Whores on the Hill - Colleen Curran: 3.5/5
July
59. Bloody Bones - Laurell K. Hamilton: 3.5/5
60. The Dark Half - Stephen King: 3/5
61. Geektastic: Stories From the Nerd Heard - Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci: 4/5
62. The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker: 3/5
63. Infinite Days - Rebecca Maizel: 2.5/5
64. Kitty and the Midnight Hour - Carrie Vaughn: 4/5
65. Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis: 3.5/5
66. Object of Desire - William J. Mann: 3.5/5
August
67. The Killing Dance - Laurell K. Hamilton: 4/5
68. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sije: 3.5/5
69. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank: 5/5
70. The Dogs of Babel - Carolyn Parkhurst: 4.5/5
71. Hate List - Jennifer Brown: 4/5
72. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins: 4/5
73. The Other - Thomas Tryon: 4/5
September
74. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini: 4/5
75. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway: 3/5
76. She’s Come Undone - Wally Lamb: 4.5/5
77. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger: 2.5/5
78. Zombies vs. Unicorns - Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier: 4.5/5
October
79. Firestarter - Stephen King: 3.5/5
80. Four Past Midnight - Stephen King: 3.5/5
81. Hell House - Richard Matheson: 2/5
82. Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick: 0.5/5
83. Rosemary’s Baby - Ira Levin: 5/5
November
84. Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl: 1/5
85. Boy Meets Boy (re-read) - David Levithan: 4/5
86. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz: 4/5
87. Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer: 5/5
88. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson: 4.5/5
89. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult: 3/5
December
90. Affinity - Sarah Waters: 3/5
91. Antediluvian Tales - Poppy Z. Brite: 3/5
92. Are We There Yet? - David Levithan: 3.5/5
93. Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver 4.5/5
94. The Bermudez Triangle (re-read) - Maureen Johnson: 5/5
95. Between Mom and Jo - Julie Anne Peters: 4.5/5
96. The Dead-Tossed Waves - Carrie Ryan: 4.5/5
97. grl2grl - Julie Anne Peters: 3/5
98. Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski: 4/5
99. Hunger - Jackie Morse Kessler: 3/5
100. A Question of Manhood: 4.5/5
101. The Realm of Possibility - David Levithan: 3.5/5
102. A Separate Peace - John Knowles: 4.5/5
103. Vacations From Hell - Various: 3/5
104. The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino: 4.5/5
104 books total
Best of the Year: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, Columbine by Dave Cullen, Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin.
Worst of the Year: Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick, Shockproof Sydney Skate by Marijane Meaker, Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Hunted by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.