And The Winner Is...

Well, 2010 was an interesting year for books. Either I was completely engrossed in what I was reading, or it was total crap and I suffered for no good reason. I read the same number as last year, 21 books -- a far cry from my goal of 52.

But I didn't shy away from long books this year. Out of curiosity I totaled it up, and I read 9,200 pages this year, an average of 440 per book! I was pretty evenly divided on fiction versus non-fiction, the only category that I neglected was classics, so I'll have to be more conscious of that. I did try a couple biographies this year, and found them both pretty tedious, go figure.

The best book I read in 2010 was Sh*t My Dad Says, by Justin Halpern. It's short and sweet, and crass and funnier than any book I can remember. I adored it!

Here's the rest:

1) Sh*t My Dad Says - Halpern
2) Super Freakonomics - Levitt
3) The Book of Vice - Sagal
4) The Seige - White
5) Under the Dome - Stephen King
6) What the Dog Saw - Gladwell
7) The Help - Stockett
8) At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bryson
9) The Confession - Grisham
10) Presumed Innocent - Turow
11) Free: The Future of a Radical Price - Anderson
12) Dark Tide - Gross
13) Gold Coast - DeMille
14) Alice in Wonderland - Carroll
15) The Year of the Flood - Atwood
16) The Girl with Glass Feet - Shaw
17) The Fleet Street Murders - Finch

and maybe don't bother so much with

18) Lust for Life, Biographical Novel of Vincent Van Gogh - Stone
19) de Kooning - Stevens
20) Adobe Lightroom 3 - Kelby
21) Understanding Exposure - Peterson