Quote:
Originally Posted by GA Russell
In a word, Chesterton.
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He's always entertaining.
Here's the list of books (not including short stories, magazines, etc.) I read in 2010:
Books I Read in 2010:
1.
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind by Roger Penrose, Malcolm Longair, Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright, Stephen Hawking
2.
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
3.
The Machine Stops (Novella) by (E)dward (M)organ Forster
4.
DEAD(ish) by Naomi Kramer (nomesque)
5.
Boomerang by Alan Hutchenson (Plumboz)
6. The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan, ed. by Ann Druyan
7.
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
8.
Was Superman a Spy? by Brian Cronin
9.
Maurice by E.M. Forster
10.
Dragged into Darkness by Simon Wood
11.
Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen
12.
The Essays or Councils, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon
13.
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
14.
American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson
15.
The Days of Babylon by Timothy L. Nix (husband of Dixiegal/Bambi)
16.
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
17.
Quirkology by Richard Wiseman
18.
Love Among the Chickens by P.G. Wodehouse
19.
Ringworld by Larry Niven (Audiobook)
20.
Mr. Grieves, Vol. 1 by Cooper Johnson, Ill. by Jhomar Soriano (Graphic Novel)
21.
Cockroach Suckers by David Niall Wilson
22.
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Audiobook)
23.
MetaGame by Sam Landstrom
24.
Ghostly Tales, Vol. 1 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
25.
And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer
26.
Crude Behavior: A fundamentalist tale told by kidd millennium by Ron Callari, Ill. by Jon A. Donohoe (Graphic Novel)
27.
The Mysterious island by Jules Verne
28.
The Origin of Species, 6th Ed. by Charles Darwin
29.
Life...with no breaks by Nick Spalding
30.
Lamb by Christopher Moore
31.
Steve Allen’s Private Joke File by Steve Allen
32.
Native Guard: Poems by Natasha Trethewey by Natasha Trethewey
33.
On Benefits by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
34.
Groucho and Me by Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx
35.
Was it Heaven or Hell by Mark Twain
36.
Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane by John Amato and David Neiwert
37.
The Sheepfarmer's Daughter: Book I of The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon
38.
The Portable Nietzsche translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann (a re-read)
39.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, unknown early edition
falsely advertised as the 17th Edition on the Amazon Kindle page (see Product Details).
40.
Asrar-I-Khudi (The Secrets of Self) by Dr. Muhammad Iqbal
41.
White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Paul Clayton
42.
Risen: The Short Stories by Jan Strnad
43.
High Noon by poohbear_nc
44.
59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
45.
Frenzy: 60 Stories of Sudden Sex by Alison Tyler
46.
Boston Blackie by Jack Boyle
47.
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
48.
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1) by Lee Child
49.
Palimpsest (novella) by Charles Stross
50.
The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal by Paul Kurtz
51.
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, trans. by The Rev. H.F. Cary, M.A. (The Harvard Classics edition)
52.
Third World America: How Our Politicians are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream by Arianna Huffington
53.
Risen by Jan Strnad
54.
Fanny Hill by John Cleland (in honor of Banned Books Week)
55.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
56.
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels
57.
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, trans. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
58.
The Son of Man by C.W. Johnson (audiobook)
59.
33 A.D. by David McAfee
And last, but not least:
60.
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
(
The Divine Comedy is listed twice because I read two translations of it in 2010, and have yet a third translation on my 2011 reading list.)