Year In Review - Books

This year I finished 21 books. Not too bad, considering five of them were pushing 1,000 pages, including one by Tolstoy, and the last three weeks have been spent on another brick that will have to count for next year. I wish I could get closer to averaging a book a week, but alas, I have stuff to do.

Favorites were heavy on science fiction and fantasy:

• Ready Player One. Possibly one of my all time favorites. It's not great literature, it's a goof, but it's a suspenseful action packed goof that incorporates the history of video games, pop culture in the 1980s, lots of other fun technical trivia and some futuristic sci fi too. It's nerdalicious.
• Hunger Games (series). Another suspenseful futuristic sci fi adventure. I think I read all 1,200 pages of the series in 10 days.
• 11/22/63, by Stephen King. Time travel is one of my favorite topics, and Stephen King is just fun to read. Ostensibly about traveling back in time to prevent JFK's assassination, it covers a ton of other (fictional) situations that needed a revision or two.
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - On many 'best of 2010' lists, so I discovered it about a year ago. A non-fiction book about a woman whose DNA unexpectedly became the "Kleenex" of medical research, and what it means to her current family. One of those amazing issues that makes me feel like, how have I never heard about this before?

I have my work cut out for me this year. I think the wish list tucked inside my Kindle case has more than 21 titles on it...