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Books Read in 2010
Rereads are italicized.
Read for Fun
Novels
1. His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik
2. Squirrel Meets Chipmunk: A Modern Bestiary - David Sedaris
3. The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone By - Robert Kirkman
4. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
5. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
6. Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
7. Good Omens - Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman
8. The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie
9. Inkspell - Cornelia Funke
10. Children of God - Mary Doria Russell
11. Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
12. Summerland - Michael Chabon
13. The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
14. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
15. Shopgirl - Steve Martin
16. Neuromancer - William Gibson
17. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer
18. Soulless - Gail Carriger
19. The Great Perhaps - Joe Meno
20. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
21. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
22. Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy - Matt Ruff
Non-fiction
1. Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
2. Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth - John Garth
3. The Te of Piglet - Benjamin Hoff
4. The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life - James Martin
5. The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
Read for School
Non-fiction
1. An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks
2. Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought it - Elizabeth Royte
Novels
1. Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
2. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
3. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
4. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
5. Dracula - Bram Stoker
6. The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
7. Persuasion - Jane Austen
8. Blast I - Wyndham Lewis
9. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
10. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
11. Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
12. The Life and Death of Harriet Frean - May Sinclair
13. Wise Children - Angela Carter
14. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
15. Pointed Roofs - Dorothy Richardson
16. Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells
17. Paradise Lost - John Milton
18. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
19. The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
20. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
Poetry Collections
1. Thomas and Beulah - Rita Dove
2. Bright Star: The Poems of John Keats - John Keats
3. The Wasteland, Prufrock, and other Poems - T.S. Eliot
4. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats - W.B. Yeats
5. The Lost Lunar Baedeker - Mina Loy
6. John Donne's Poetry - John Donne
Plays
1. The Rover - Aphra Behn
2. The Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
Literary Criticism
1. Confession: Sexuality, Sin, and Subject - Jeremy Tambling
2. Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature - Peter Brooks
3. Shame: The Exposed Subject - Michael Lewis
4. Invisible Poet: T.S. Eliot - Hugh Kenner
5. Deviant Modernism: Sexual and Textual Errancy in T.S Eliot, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust - Colleen Lamos
6. Eliot and his Age: T.S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century - Russell Kirk
7. Conflicts in Consciousness: T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Criticism - David Spurr
8. Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot - Nancy K. Gish
9. A Reader's Guide to T.S. Eliot: A Poem-By-Poem Analysis - George Williamson
10. Critical Companion to T.S. Eliot: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work - Russell Elliott Murphy
11. Keats and Embarrassment - Christopher Ricks
12. Arnold Bennett Himself - Rebecca West
13. Arnold Bennett - Olga R.R. Broomfield
Tech History
1. The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade - Franz J. Potter
2. Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era - Lisa Gitelman
3. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter - Fredrich Kittler
4. My Sisters Telegraphic: Women in the Telegraph Office, 1846 - 1860 - Thomas Jepsen
5. The American Telegraph: A Social History, 1860-1900 - Edwin Gabler
6. A History of Telegraphy - Kenneth Beauchamp
7. The Victorian Internet - Tom Standage
8. The Electric Telegraph - Lewis Coe
9. Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph - Frank L. Pope
10. The Telegraph: How Technological Innovation Caused Social Change - Annteresa Lubrano
Textbooks
1. Building Genre Knowledge - Christine Tardy
2. The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint - Edward R. Tufte
3. Teaching Techincal Communication: Critical Issues for the Classroom - James M. Dubinsky
4. Writing Power: Communication in an Engineering Center - Dorothy Winsor
5. Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making - Edward R. Tufte
Total: 75
Rereads are italicized.
Read for Fun
Novels
1. His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik
2. Squirrel Meets Chipmunk: A Modern Bestiary - David Sedaris
3. The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone By - Robert Kirkman
4. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
5. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
6. Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
7. Good Omens - Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman
8. The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie
9. Inkspell - Cornelia Funke
10. Children of God - Mary Doria Russell
11. Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
12. Summerland - Michael Chabon
13. The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
14. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
15. Shopgirl - Steve Martin
16. Neuromancer - William Gibson
17. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer
18. Soulless - Gail Carriger
19. The Great Perhaps - Joe Meno
20. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
21. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
22. Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy - Matt Ruff
Non-fiction
1. Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
2. Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth - John Garth
3. The Te of Piglet - Benjamin Hoff
4. The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life - James Martin
5. The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
Read for School
Non-fiction
1. An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks
2. Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought it - Elizabeth Royte
Novels
1. Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
2. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
3. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
4. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
5. Dracula - Bram Stoker
6. The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
7. Persuasion - Jane Austen
8. Blast I - Wyndham Lewis
9. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
10. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
11. Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
12. The Life and Death of Harriet Frean - May Sinclair
13. Wise Children - Angela Carter
14. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
15. Pointed Roofs - Dorothy Richardson
16. Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells
17. Paradise Lost - John Milton
18. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
19. The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
20. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
Poetry Collections
1. Thomas and Beulah - Rita Dove
2. Bright Star: The Poems of John Keats - John Keats
3. The Wasteland, Prufrock, and other Poems - T.S. Eliot
4. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats - W.B. Yeats
5. The Lost Lunar Baedeker - Mina Loy
6. John Donne's Poetry - John Donne
Plays
1. The Rover - Aphra Behn
2. The Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
Literary Criticism
1. Confession: Sexuality, Sin, and Subject - Jeremy Tambling
2. Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature - Peter Brooks
3. Shame: The Exposed Subject - Michael Lewis
4. Invisible Poet: T.S. Eliot - Hugh Kenner
5. Deviant Modernism: Sexual and Textual Errancy in T.S Eliot, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust - Colleen Lamos
6. Eliot and his Age: T.S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century - Russell Kirk
7. Conflicts in Consciousness: T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Criticism - David Spurr
8. Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot - Nancy K. Gish
9. A Reader's Guide to T.S. Eliot: A Poem-By-Poem Analysis - George Williamson
10. Critical Companion to T.S. Eliot: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work - Russell Elliott Murphy
11. Keats and Embarrassment - Christopher Ricks
12. Arnold Bennett Himself - Rebecca West
13. Arnold Bennett - Olga R.R. Broomfield
Tech History
1. The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade - Franz J. Potter
2. Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era - Lisa Gitelman
3. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter - Fredrich Kittler
4. My Sisters Telegraphic: Women in the Telegraph Office, 1846 - 1860 - Thomas Jepsen
5. The American Telegraph: A Social History, 1860-1900 - Edwin Gabler
6. A History of Telegraphy - Kenneth Beauchamp
7. The Victorian Internet - Tom Standage
8. The Electric Telegraph - Lewis Coe
9. Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph - Frank L. Pope
10. The Telegraph: How Technological Innovation Caused Social Change - Annteresa Lubrano
Textbooks
1. Building Genre Knowledge - Christine Tardy
2. The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint - Edward R. Tufte
3. Teaching Techincal Communication: Critical Issues for the Classroom - James M. Dubinsky
4. Writing Power: Communication in an Engineering Center - Dorothy Winsor
5. Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making - Edward R. Tufte
Total: 75