Happy Twenty-Eleventy

[trishtrash]

New Years Day open book meme: do any (or all) of the following

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[nikki_cee]

List your favourite (and/or least favourite) top ten books of 2010:
1. Cell by Stephen King
2. Tommyknockers by Stephen King
3. The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
5. Kilter: 55 Fictions by John Gould
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
7. Shatter by Michael Robotham
8. The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
9. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
10. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

List any books or authors that you read during 2010 that you'd recommend:
I (obviously) recommend Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Michael Crichton. I've been a fan of King for awhile, but only recently became a fan of the latter two. This year I also really got into Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thanks to watching the Sherlock Holmes movie and the new Sherlock series, and immediately went searching my libraries for any SH books I could find. Surprisingly, the one Conan Doyle novel I am recommending here is The Lost World. I loved all of the SH stories, but this is just one of those

[edith_jones]

List your favourite (and/or least favourite) top ten books of 2010
Favourites: note: these aren’t in order…

1. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
   
2. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
   
3. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
   
4. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
   
5. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
   
6. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
   
7. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
   
8. Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
   
9. Different Seasons by Stephen King
   
10. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    

Least Favourite [again, not in order]

1. Mrs. Warren’s Profession by G.B. Shaw
   
2. The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
   
3. Berlin Game by Len Deighton
   
4. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
   
5. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
   
6. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
   
7. Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall
   
8. The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
   
9. The Girl who loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
   
10. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
    

Books/Authors I’d recommend:

• Douglas Coupland, the Canadian writer who came up with the concept of Generation X, has become one of my favourite