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Books Read 2010
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For what it is worth (and I find it is always interesting to see what's on people's bookshelves, even electronic shelves) here's the list I kept of books read in 2010. Usually I noted the date of publication, but sometimes I was too lazy to look it up so the dates aren't entirely accurate. Make of the list what you will. Maybe I will talk about some of these books on future blogs.

  1. A Dreamer's Tales -- Lord Dunsany (1910)
  2. The Deep Blue Good-By -- John D. MacDonald (1964)
  3. The Three Imposters -- Arthur Machen (1895)
  4. Cannery Row -- John Steinbeck (1945)
  5. Trent's Last Case -- E.C. Bentley (1913)
  6. The Big Time -- Fritz Leiber (1957)
  7. Chronicle of a Death Foretold -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1982)
  8. Mrs. McGinty's Dead -- Agatha Christie (1952)
  9. The Alchemist -- Paulo Coelho (1982)
  10. Weird Tales From Northern Seas -- Jonas Lie (1893)
  11. A Murder is Announced -- Agatha Christie (1951)
  12. A People's History of the United States -- Howard Zinn (1999)
  13. The Bowstring Murders -- John Dickson Carr (1933)
  14. Simulacra and Simulation -- Jean Baudrillard (1981)
  15. The Garden of Forking Paths -- Jorge Luis Borges (1941)
  16. Gateway --Frederick Pohl (1977)
  17. Noah's Compass -- Ann Tyler (2010)
  18. The Illiad-- Homer, trans. Ian Johnston (8th century BC)
  19. The Centaur -- John Updike (1963)
  20. The Oresteia -- Aeschylus, trans. Ian Johnston (458 BC)
  21. The Private Life of Helen of Troy -- John Erskine (1926)
  22. Illium -- Dan Simmons (2004)
  23. Works and Days/The Theogony -- Hesiod, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (8th century BC)
  24. The Lightning Thief -- Rick Riordan
  25. Ajax -- Sophocles trans. Ian Johnston (440? BC)
  26. Anacreon in English trans Thomas James Arnold (500 BC)
  27. Poems of Sappho trans. Edward Storer (7th sentury BC)
  28. Trojan Women -- By Euripedes trans G. Theodoridis (415 BC)
  29. Thesmophoriazusae -- Aristophanes trans. G. Theodorides ( 411 BC)
  30. Breathing Lessons -- Ann Tyler (1989)
  31. A Key to the Suite -- John D. MacDonald (1962)
  32. Shoot the Piano Player -- David Goodis (1956)
  33. Alexandria -- Lindsey Davis (2009)
  34. Super -- Jim Lehrer (2010)
  35. Year of the Hyenas -- Brad Geagley (2005)
  36. My Gun Is Quick -- Mickey Spillane (1951)
  37. Wickedness -- Mary Midgley (1984)
  38. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity -- Averil Cameron (1992)
  39. Law and Empire in Late Antiquity -- Jill Harries (2004)
  40. A Social History of Byzantium -- John Haldon ed. (2009)
  41. John Lydus and the Roman Past -- Michael Maas (1992)
  42. The Accidental Tourist -- Anne Tyler (1989)
  43. Rogue Moon -- Algis Budrys (1960)
  44. The Perfect Murder -- Peter James (2010)
  45. The Lucifer Code -- Charles Brokaw (2010)
  46. The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud -- Julia Navarro (2006)
  47. The Intelligencer -- Leslie Silber (2003)
  48. The Secret History -- Procopius (550)
  49. I Is For Innocent -- Sue Grafton (1992)
  50. Death is Now My Neighbor -- Colin Dexter (1996)
  51. Self's Murder -- Bernhard Schlink (2001)
  52. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant -- Ann Tyler (1082)
  53. Never Go Back -- Robert Goddard (2005)
  54. The Third Man -- Graham Greene (1949)
  55. The Information Officer -- Mark Mills (2010)
  56. Nightmare in Pink -- John D. MacDonald (1964)
  57. Sins of the Fathers -- Lawrence Block (1976)
  58. The Big Sleep -- Raymond Chandler (1939)
  59. Slaughterhouse Five -- Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
  60. Cat's Cradle -- Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
  61. Red Harvest -- Dashiell Hammett (1929)
  62. Noir -- Robert Coover (2010)
  63. Memories of My Melancholy Whores --Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2004)
  64. Third Girl -- Agatha Christie (1964)
  65. The Screaming Mimi -- Fredric Brown (1956)
  66. The Giver -- Lois Lowry (1993)
  67. Wilderness Tips -- Margaret Atwood
  68. Who Killed Palomino Molero -- Mario Vargas Llosa (1989)
  69. Amulet -- Roberto Bolano (1999)
  70. Jealousy -- Alain Robbe-Grillet (1957)
  71. The High Priest of California -- Charles Willeford (1957)
  72. Gathering Blue -- Lois Lowry (2000)
  73. Messenger -- Lois Lowry (2004)
  74. The Taking -- Dean R, Koontz (2005)
  75. Invasion -- Aaron Wolfe (Dean Koontz) (1975)
  76. The White Mountains -- John Christopher
  77. The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop. --Robert Coover (1968)
  78. De Bello Lemures, or the Roman War Against the Zombies of Armorica --Thomas Brookside (2009)
  79. A Patchwork Planet -- Anne Tyler (1998)
  80. Silent Barrier -- Louis Tracy (1908)
  81. The Mysterious Affair at Styles -- Agatha Christie (1920)
  82. The Circular Study -- Anna Katherine Green (1900)
  83. The Daffodil Mystery -- Edgar Wallace (1920)
  84. The Unicorn Murders -- Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) (1935)


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