Books 2010
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tamaranthI think I can safely say that I'm not going to read anything else this year: I haven't actually read a book since the end of November, and I've only read six since I came back from holiday. Ah well ...
This year I read 86 books: 63 by women, 21 by men, 1 anthology, 1 K J Parker <g>.
10 SF, 19 crime, 19 fantasy, 22 historical ... some tags overlap, some don't have any of these tags.
1 non-fiction (appalling! but I have read parts of many more non-fiction)
I did two self-challenges: first, A-Z of my unread books, then A-Z of women writers. Other than that I read what I liked, and I've had a couple of patches of not reading actual books at all. (Is what the interwebs are for.)
January
2010/01: The Fall of Troy -- Peter Ackroyd - historical, C19 - ****
2010/02: Ink and Steel -- Elizabeth Bear - fantasy, historical, C16 - *****
2010/03: A Home at the End of the World -- Michael Cunningham - contemporary, *****
2010/04: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies -- Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith - humour, remix ***
2010/05: The Memory Palace -- Christie Dickason - historical, C17, *****
2010/06: Hell and Earth -- Elizabeth Bear - fantasy, historical, C16 - *****
2010/07: Whiskey and Water -- Elizabeth Bear - fantasy, contemporary, ****
2010/08: The Virgin Suicides -- Jeffrey Eugenides - contemporary, ***
February
2010/09: The Gate of Angels -- Penelope Fitzgerald - Cambridge, C20 - ****
2010/10: Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon -- Lisa Goldstein - historical, C16, ***
2010/11: History Play -- Rodney Bolt - non-fiction, historical, *****
2010/12: Lucky You -- Carl Hiaasen - crime, humour, ****
2010/13: The Weight of Numbers -- Simon Ings - contemporary, ****
2010/14: The Paper Eater -- Liz Jensen - sf-lite, ***
2010/15: The Lions of Al-Rassan -- Guy Gavriel Kay - fantasy, historical - ****
2010/16: Magic for Beginners -- Kelly Link - anthology, fantasy, ****
2010/17: An Experiment in Love -- Hilary Mantel - contemporary (well, 1970) *****
2010/18: Her Fearful Symmetry -- Audrey Niffenegger - literary, horror, contemporary *****
2010/19: Anil's Ghost -- Michael Ondaatje - Sri Lanka, war, ****
2010/20: The Sacred Book of [the] Werewolf -- Victor Pelevin - fantasy, contemporary, Russia - *****
2010/21: Galveston -- Paul Quarrington - contemporary, ***
2010/22: Dreamers of the Day -- Mary Doria Russell - historical, C20, ***
March
2010/23: The Girls of Slender Means -- Muriel Spark - WW2, London ***
2010/24: The Lovely Bones -- Alice Sebold - contemporary, bestseller, afterlife ****
2010/25: The Queen of Attolia -- Megan Whalen Turner - fantasy, YA ***
2010/26: Montmorency -- Eleanor Updale - historical, children's ***
2010/27: The Conjurer Princess -- Vivian Vande Velde - fantasy, YA **
2010/28: Retribution Falls -- Chris Wooding - SF, Clarke shortlist ****
2010/29: Shadows Over Baker Street ed. Michael Reeves and John Pelan - anthology, literary fanfic ****
April
2010/30: The Brothers Bishop -- Bart Yates - contemporary, gay *****
2010/31: The Bridge -- Zoran Živkovic - magic realism, translation ***
2010/32: The City and the City -- China Mieville - Clarke winner, weird ****
2010/33: Enchanted Glass -- Diana Wynne Jones - fantasy ****
2010/34: The Beekeeper's Apprentice -- Laurie R. King - crime *****
2010/35: A Monstrous Regiment Of Women -- Laurie R. King - crime ****
2010/36: A Letter of Mary -- Laurie R. King - crime ****
2010/37: The Moor -- Laurie R. King - crime ***
2010/38: Lavondyss -- Robert Holdstock - fantasy, reread *****
2010/39: O Jerusalem -- Laurie R. King - crime ****
2010/40: Justice Hall -- Laurie R. King - crime ***
2010/41: The Game -- Laurie R. King - crime ***
2010/42: Locked Rooms -- Laurie R. King crime *****
May
2010/43,44: The Language of Bees / The God of the Hive -- Laurie R. King crime *****
2010/45: A Canticle for Liebowitz -- Walter Miller sf ***
2010/46: Zorro -- Isabel Allende historical ***
2010/47: Rude Mechanicals -- Kage Baker sf *****
June
2010/48: Nights at the Circus -- Angela Carter literary *****
2010/49: The Mistress of Spices -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni magic realism ****
2010/50: Light -- Margaret Elphinstone historical *****
2010/51: A Book of Tongues -- Gemma Files horror/fantasy ***
2010/52: Earthly Delights -- Kerry Greenwood crime ****
2010/53: Verdigris Deep -- Frances Hardinge children's, fantasy *****
2010/54: Still She Wished For Company -- Margaret Irwin ghost ****
July
2010/55: Havemercy -- Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett fantasy *****
2010/56: Daylight -- Elizabeth Knox vampire ***
2010/57: Spiderweb -- Penelope Lively mainstream *****
2010/58: Cycler -- Lauren McLaughlin teen, sf *****
2010/59: Sherlock in Love -- Sena Jeter Naslund historical, crime, holmes ****
2010/60: The Icarus Girl -- Helen Oyeyemi horror / fantasy ****
2010/61: Losing Larry -- Elizabeth Pewsey thriller ****
2010/62: Wicked Widow -- Amanda Quick romance ***
2010/63: Wide Sargasso Sea -- Jean Rhys lff ****
2010/64: The Girl with Glass Feet -- Ali Shaw fantasy ****
August
2010/65: The Slynx -- Tatyana Tolstaya sf, satire ***
2010/66: A Map of Glass -- Jane Urquhart mainstream ****
2010/67: Memoirs of a Muse -- Lara Vapnyar mainstream, Russian ***
2010/68: London Bridges -- Jane Stevenson mainstream, crime ***
2010/69: The Mislaid Magician -- Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer fantasy *****
2010/70: Miss Chopsticks -- Xinran China ****
September
2010/71: Cards of Grief -- Jane Yolen fantasy / sf ****
2010/72: Margarettown -- Gabrielle Zevin contemporary, magic realism ****
2010/73: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- Stieg Larsson crime ****
2010/74: The Folding Knife -- K J Parker fantasy ****
2010/75: Blue and Gold -- K J Parker fantasy ****
October
2010/76: The Children's Book -- A S Byatt historical *****
2010/77: The Knife of Never Letting Go -- Patrick Ness fantasy ****
2010/78: Started Early, Took My Dog -- Kate Atkinson crime *****
2010/79: Room -- Emma Donoghue literary ****
2010/80: The Dream Master -- Roger Zelazny sf, reread ****
2010/81: Runemarks -- Joanne Harris fantasy, mythology, YA *****
November
2010/82: The Left Hand of Darkness sf, feminist *****
2010/83: The Mermaid Chair -- Sue Monk Kidd contemporary ***
2010/84: The Crossing Places -- Elly Griffiths crime ****
2010/85: The Amethyst Child -- Sarah Singleton contemporary, YA ****
My top five:
2010/02: Ink and Steel -- Elizabeth Bear
2010/42: Locked Rooms -- Laurie R. King (my favourite of the Mary Russell books, which I discovered this year)
2010/58: Cycler -- Lauren McLaughlin
2010/76: The Children's Book -- A S Byatt
2010/81: Runemarks -- Joanne Harris
This year I read 86 books: 63 by women, 21 by men, 1 anthology, 1 K J Parker <g>.
10 SF, 19 crime, 19 fantasy, 22 historical ... some tags overlap, some don't have any of these tags.
1 non-fiction (appalling! but I have read parts of many more non-fiction)
I did two self-challenges: first, A-Z of my unread books, then A-Z of women writers. Other than that I read what I liked, and I've had a couple of patches of not reading actual books at all. (Is what the interwebs are for.)
January
2010/01: The Fall of Troy -- Peter Ackroyd - historical, C19 - ****
2010/02: Ink and Steel -- Elizabeth Bear - fantasy, historical, C16 - *****
2010/03: A Home at the End of the World -- Michael Cunningham - contemporary, *****
2010/04: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies -- Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith - humour, remix ***
2010/05: The Memory Palace -- Christie Dickason - historical, C17, *****
2010/06: Hell and Earth -- Elizabeth Bear - fantasy, historical, C16 - *****
2010/07: Whiskey and Water -- Elizabeth Bear - fantasy, contemporary, ****
2010/08: The Virgin Suicides -- Jeffrey Eugenides - contemporary, ***
February
2010/09: The Gate of Angels -- Penelope Fitzgerald - Cambridge, C20 - ****
2010/10: Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon -- Lisa Goldstein - historical, C16, ***
2010/11: History Play -- Rodney Bolt - non-fiction, historical, *****
2010/12: Lucky You -- Carl Hiaasen - crime, humour, ****
2010/13: The Weight of Numbers -- Simon Ings - contemporary, ****
2010/14: The Paper Eater -- Liz Jensen - sf-lite, ***
2010/15: The Lions of Al-Rassan -- Guy Gavriel Kay - fantasy, historical - ****
2010/16: Magic for Beginners -- Kelly Link - anthology, fantasy, ****
2010/17: An Experiment in Love -- Hilary Mantel - contemporary (well, 1970) *****
2010/18: Her Fearful Symmetry -- Audrey Niffenegger - literary, horror, contemporary *****
2010/19: Anil's Ghost -- Michael Ondaatje - Sri Lanka, war, ****
2010/20: The Sacred Book of [the] Werewolf -- Victor Pelevin - fantasy, contemporary, Russia - *****
2010/21: Galveston -- Paul Quarrington - contemporary, ***
2010/22: Dreamers of the Day -- Mary Doria Russell - historical, C20, ***
March
2010/23: The Girls of Slender Means -- Muriel Spark - WW2, London ***
2010/24: The Lovely Bones -- Alice Sebold - contemporary, bestseller, afterlife ****
2010/25: The Queen of Attolia -- Megan Whalen Turner - fantasy, YA ***
2010/26: Montmorency -- Eleanor Updale - historical, children's ***
2010/27: The Conjurer Princess -- Vivian Vande Velde - fantasy, YA **
2010/28: Retribution Falls -- Chris Wooding - SF, Clarke shortlist ****
2010/29: Shadows Over Baker Street ed. Michael Reeves and John Pelan - anthology, literary fanfic ****
April
2010/30: The Brothers Bishop -- Bart Yates - contemporary, gay *****
2010/31: The Bridge -- Zoran Živkovic - magic realism, translation ***
2010/32: The City and the City -- China Mieville - Clarke winner, weird ****
2010/33: Enchanted Glass -- Diana Wynne Jones - fantasy ****
2010/34: The Beekeeper's Apprentice -- Laurie R. King - crime *****
2010/35: A Monstrous Regiment Of Women -- Laurie R. King - crime ****
2010/36: A Letter of Mary -- Laurie R. King - crime ****
2010/37: The Moor -- Laurie R. King - crime ***
2010/38: Lavondyss -- Robert Holdstock - fantasy, reread *****
2010/39: O Jerusalem -- Laurie R. King - crime ****
2010/40: Justice Hall -- Laurie R. King - crime ***
2010/41: The Game -- Laurie R. King - crime ***
2010/42: Locked Rooms -- Laurie R. King crime *****
May
2010/43,44: The Language of Bees / The God of the Hive -- Laurie R. King crime *****
2010/45: A Canticle for Liebowitz -- Walter Miller sf ***
2010/46: Zorro -- Isabel Allende historical ***
2010/47: Rude Mechanicals -- Kage Baker sf *****
June
2010/48: Nights at the Circus -- Angela Carter literary *****
2010/49: The Mistress of Spices -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni magic realism ****
2010/50: Light -- Margaret Elphinstone historical *****
2010/51: A Book of Tongues -- Gemma Files horror/fantasy ***
2010/52: Earthly Delights -- Kerry Greenwood crime ****
2010/53: Verdigris Deep -- Frances Hardinge children's, fantasy *****
2010/54: Still She Wished For Company -- Margaret Irwin ghost ****
July
2010/55: Havemercy -- Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett fantasy *****
2010/56: Daylight -- Elizabeth Knox vampire ***
2010/57: Spiderweb -- Penelope Lively mainstream *****
2010/58: Cycler -- Lauren McLaughlin teen, sf *****
2010/59: Sherlock in Love -- Sena Jeter Naslund historical, crime, holmes ****
2010/60: The Icarus Girl -- Helen Oyeyemi horror / fantasy ****
2010/61: Losing Larry -- Elizabeth Pewsey thriller ****
2010/62: Wicked Widow -- Amanda Quick romance ***
2010/63: Wide Sargasso Sea -- Jean Rhys lff ****
2010/64: The Girl with Glass Feet -- Ali Shaw fantasy ****
August
2010/65: The Slynx -- Tatyana Tolstaya sf, satire ***
2010/66: A Map of Glass -- Jane Urquhart mainstream ****
2010/67: Memoirs of a Muse -- Lara Vapnyar mainstream, Russian ***
2010/68: London Bridges -- Jane Stevenson mainstream, crime ***
2010/69: The Mislaid Magician -- Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer fantasy *****
2010/70: Miss Chopsticks -- Xinran China ****
September
2010/71: Cards of Grief -- Jane Yolen fantasy / sf ****
2010/72: Margarettown -- Gabrielle Zevin contemporary, magic realism ****
2010/73: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- Stieg Larsson crime ****
2010/74: The Folding Knife -- K J Parker fantasy ****
2010/75: Blue and Gold -- K J Parker fantasy ****
October
2010/76: The Children's Book -- A S Byatt historical *****
2010/77: The Knife of Never Letting Go -- Patrick Ness fantasy ****
2010/78: Started Early, Took My Dog -- Kate Atkinson crime *****
2010/79: Room -- Emma Donoghue literary ****
2010/80: The Dream Master -- Roger Zelazny sf, reread ****
2010/81: Runemarks -- Joanne Harris fantasy, mythology, YA *****
November
2010/82: The Left Hand of Darkness sf, feminist *****
2010/83: The Mermaid Chair -- Sue Monk Kidd contemporary ***
2010/84: The Crossing Places -- Elly Griffiths crime ****
2010/85: The Amethyst Child -- Sarah Singleton contemporary, YA ****
My top five:
2010/02: Ink and Steel -- Elizabeth Bear
2010/42: Locked Rooms -- Laurie R. King (my favourite of the Mary Russell books, which I discovered this year)
2010/58: Cycler -- Lauren McLaughlin
2010/76: The Children's Book -- A S Byatt
2010/81: Runemarks -- Joanne Harris
