End of year Book Poll

[attolia]

This year I read 70 books (15 nonfiction, 55 nonfiction) and listened to 29 Doctor who audios (lots of long walks and commutes). The most memorable works of fiction were My Most Excellent Year of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park and Julian Comstock. My favorite works of nonfiction were The King's Best Highway and Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years with honorable mentions to We've Got Issues and How I Killed Pluto and Why it had it Coming.

Below is the list of all the books I read in 2010, roughly in reverse order of reading and split by category. I also ask for recommendations from the list of books on my shelf and those I don't have but have tagged as interesting.



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Comments

[mojosmom.livejournal.com]

There are four on your shelf that I recommended (The Master and Margarita, Ragtime, The Cunning Man, and Like Water for Chocolate, but if I had to pick just one for you to read, it would be the Bulgakov.

[attolia.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I tend to put a low priority on the books I own over those from the library since I can read them anytime, but then I end up postponing a lot of good books. My goal is to read several from the home shelf this year.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean! I find that the deadline of a due date helps make sure that I get around to reading a book, unlike the ones that are just sitting on one of my shelves.

Now I want to look at the Calculus Diaries -- I'd never heard of it before.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I can recommend the Ken Macleods, but not any one in particular. And of all Zelazny's books, I see those two as occupying opposite ends of the complexity spectrum. Okay, that's not quite right, but it's as close as I can get....