2010 Books Read

People often ask me what I'm reading these days, so I have compiled my annual list of books read over the last year. An asterisk * indicates a recommended book and a # indicates fave of the year. Here goes:

1. Pawn of Prophecy, David Eddings
2. Film Club, David Gilmer
3. Once a Runner, John L. Parker Jr. *
   
4. Best Short Stories of Jack London
5. New Glass Architecture, Brent Richards
   
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
7. The Theory of Everything, Steven Hawking
8. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
9. Halo: the Fail of Reach, Eric Nyland
10. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
11. The Siege, Ismail Kadare *
12. Dreaming Up America, Russell Banks
13. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova *
14. Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
15. The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
16. Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw, Thomas Glavinic
17. Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson *
    
18. Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol
19. The Flanders Panel, Arturo Perez-Reverte
20. The Host, Stephanie Meyer
21. Angel Tracks in the Himalayas, Gary Shepherd
22. Halting State, Charles Stross
23. Empire, Orson Scott Card
24. Wild at Heart, John Eldredge
25. Green, Ted Dekker
26. I Am American (And So Can You), Stephen Colbert
27. The Driver, Alex Roy
28. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson *
29. Girl With Curious Hair, David Foster Wallace *
30. Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery * #
31. Nudge, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
32. Unlikely Disciple, Kevin Roose *
33. Usagi Yojimbo (various volumes), Stan Sakai
34. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson *
35. Fables (various volumes), Bill Willingham
36. Give Me Liberty, Frank Miller
37. Born to Run, Christopher McDougal *
38. Boomsday, Christopher Buckley
39. Return of the Dark Knight, Frank Miller
40. Batman:Year One, Frank Miller
41. The Learners, Chip Kidd
    
42. Lowboy, John Wray
43. Sandman, Vol 1, Neil Gaiman
44. A Friendly Game, Joe Pimienta
45. Sex God, Rob Bell
46. The Other, David Guterson
47. The Infernal City, Greg Keyes
48. The Marquis, Guy Davis
49. Eifelheim, Michael Flynn *
50. The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis
51. The World According to Garp, John Irving
52. The Prodigal God, Tim Keller
53. Ghost World, Dan Clowes
54. Maus, Art Speigelman
55. Reading Comics, Douglas Wolk
56. Searching for God Knows What, Donald Miller * #
57. Y: The Last Man (various volumes), Brian K Vaughn *
58. Rural Studio: Sam Mockabee and an Architecture of Decency, Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and Timothy Hursley