Every Book I Read in 2010

Some for the second time around (all still good), some were not good, but here’s the lot of ‘em (fifty-eight total, beating last year’s fifty-two but to be fair there more were comics this year…). Only counted books I completed. Reviews on Goodreads for most. In reverse chronological order (December through January).

  • Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli
  • True Grit, Charles Portis
  • Just Kids, Patti Smith
  • Fables: The Deluxe Edition Book One, Bill Willingham
  • Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume, Jeff Smith
  • Different Seasons, Stephen King
  • You Are Not a Gadget, Jared Lanier
  • I Curse the River of Time, Per Petterson
  • Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris
  • The Insufferable Gaucho, Roberto Bolaño
  • The Gospel of Anarchy, Justin Taylor
  • Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
  • Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Secret Lives of People in Love, Simon Van Booy
  • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
  • Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever, Justin Taylor
  • Stitches, David Small
  • Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
  • Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
  • Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller
  • The Magicians, Lev Grossman
  • Distant Star, Roberto Bolaño
  • Drinking at the Movies, Julia Wertz
  • The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  • Super Spy: The Lost Dossiers, Matt Kindt
  • Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, Bryan Lee O’Malley
  • Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, Bryan Lee O’Malley
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe, Bryan Lee O’Malley
  • Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart
  • Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness, Bryan Lee O’Malley
  • A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Bryan Lee O’Malley
  • Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Way through Doors, Jesse Ball
  • Emma, Jane Austen
  • Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
  • Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
  • Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
  • I Was Told There’d Be Cake, Sloan Crosley
  • Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, Bryan Lee O’Malley
  • Travels with Charley: In Search of America, John Steinbeck
  • Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro
  • Palestine, Joe Sacco
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Stieg Larsson
  • Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
  • Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud
  • Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
  • The Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood
  • Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy
  • The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy
  • All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCathy
  • Cleopatra’s Wedding Present, Robert Tewdwr Moss
  • The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday, Neil MacFarquhar
  • The Rum Diary, Hunter S. Thompson
  • The Extra Man, Jonathan Ames
  • Ironweed, William Kennedy
  • The Romantic Dogs, Roberto Bolaño
  • Last Evenings on Earth, Roberto Bolaño