READING 2010
Attached is a list of the books I've read so far this year. Sometimes I
add markers like (*) to indicate books I particularly like. I also try
to keep track of how many books of a particular kind (novel, etc.) and
from a given country and century (Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. Richard
Seltzer seltzer@samizdat.comwww.samizdat.com
For reviews of some of these books, see http://www.samizdat.com/isyn/reviews.html
For
brief notes on others, see www.samizdat.com/readrev.html
For more on books and reading, see www.samizdat.com/readers.html
January
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1 Roberto Bolano 4 2666: The Part about the Crimes CHILE 21st 1 NOVEL 1
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2 Roberto Bolano 5 2666: ***The Part about Archimboldi CHILE 21st 2 NOVEL
2
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3 Lisa Lutz 1 The Spellman Files AMERICAN 21st 1 NOVEL 3
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4 Tana French 1 ***The Likeness IRISH 21st 1 NOVEL 4
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5 William Makepeace Thackeray 1 The History of Henry Esmond BRITISH 19th
1 NOVEL 4
February
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6 John Berendt 1 **Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil AMERICAN 20th
1 NOVEL 5
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7 Junot Diaz 1 **The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao AMERICAN 21st
1 NOVEL 6
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8 Aravind Adiga 1 ***The White Tiger INDIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 7
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9 Cormac McCarthy 9 **Suttree AMERICAN 20th 2 NOVEL 8
March
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10 Jane Smiley 5 ****Greenlanders AMERICAN 20th 3 NOVEL 9
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11 Vivian Mercier (editor) Great Irish Short Stories IRISH 19th 1
SHORT STORIES 1
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12 Elizabeth McCracken 3 An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
AMERICAN 21st 2 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1
April
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13 Jay Parini 1 The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year AMERICAN
21st 3 NOVEL 10
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14 Peter Akinti 1 Forest Gate BRITISH 21st 1 NOVEL 11
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15 Ian McEwan 8 *Solar AMERICAN 21st 4 NOVEL 12
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16 Colum McCann 1 ****Let the Great World Spin IRISH 21st 2/AMERICAN 21st
5 NOVEL 13
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17 Paul Harding 1 (minus **, terrible) Tinkers AMERICAN 21st 6 NOVEL 14
May
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18 Chris Cleave 1 **Little Bee BRITISH 21st 1 NOVEL 15
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19 Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr. 1 A Brief History of Egypt AMERICAN 21st 7 HISTORY
1
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20 Wallis Budge 1 Egyptian Religion BRITISH 19th 1 HISTORY 2
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21 Wallis Budge 2 Egyptian Book of the Dead EGYTPTIAN BC 1 RELIGION
1
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22 George Andrew Reisner 1 The Egyptian Conception of Immortality BRITISH
19th 2 RELIGION 2
June
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23 Naguib Mafouz 2 **Palace Walk EGYPTIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 16
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24 Naguib Mafouz 3 **Palace of Desire EGYPTIAN 20th 2 NOVEL 17
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25 Naguib Mafouz 4 **Sugar Street EGYPTIAN 20th 3 NOVEL 18
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26 Richard Burton 5 Arabian Nights volume 5 ARABIAN Middle Ages 1
SHORT STORIES 1
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27 Ian Shaw 1 The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt BRITISH 20th 1 HISTORY
2
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28 Jonathan Cott 1 ***The Search for Omm Seti BRITISH 20th 2 HISTORY
3
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29 George Rawlinson 1 Ancient Egypt BRITISH 20th 3 HISTORY 4
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30 W.M. Flinders Petrie 1 Egyptian Tales volume 1 EGYPTIAN BC 2 RELIGION
3
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31 W.M. Flinders Petrie 2 Egyptian Tales volulme 2 EGYPTIAN BC 3 RELIGION
3
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32 Wallis Budge 3 Legends of the Gods EGYPTIAN BC 4 RELIGION 4
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33 Arthur Weigall 1 The Treasury of Ancient Egypt BRITISH 20th 4 HISTORY
4
July
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34 Tom Bissell 1 Extra Lives AMERICAN 21st 8 ESSAY 1
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35David Mitchell 1 ***Ghostwritten BRITISH 20th 5 NOVEL 19
August
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36 David Mitchell 2 ***The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet BRITISH 21st
2 NOVEL 20
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37 David Mitchell 3 ***Black Swan Green BRITISH 20th 6 NOVEL 21
September
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38 David Mitchell 4 ****Cloud Atlas BRITISH 21st 3 NOVEL 22
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39 David Michell 5 *Number9 Dream BRITISH 20th 7 NOVEL 23
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40 David Sedaris 3 **Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk AMERICAN 21st 7 SHORT STORIES
2
October
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41 Jose Saramago 11 *The Elephant's Journey PORTUGUESE 21st NOVEL 24
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42 Jonathan Franzen 3 **Freedom AMERICAN 21st 8 NOVEL 25
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43 Jane Smiley 6 **The Invention of the Computer AMERICAN 21st 9
BIOGRAPHY 1
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44 Ralph Waldo Emerson 3 *Essays First Series AMERICAN 19th
1 ESSAYS 2
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45 John Marshall 1 ***The Life of George Washington, volume 1 AMERICAN
19th 2 BIOGRAPHY 2
November
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46 Jesse Schell 1 ***The Art of Game Design AMERICAN 21st 10 ESSAY 3
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47 Marshall Wilder (editor) 1 ***The Wit and Humor of America, volume 1
AMERICAN 20th 4 SHORT STORIES 3
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48 Cynthia Salvadori 1 ****Slaves and Ivory, Continued KENYA 21st
1 HISTORY 4
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49 Marshall Wilder (editor) 2 ***The Wit and Humor of American, volume
2 AMERICAN 20th 5 SHORT STORIES 4
December
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50 H.G. Wells 4 First Men on the Moon BRITISH 20th 8 NOVEL 26
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51 H.G. Wells 5 Food of the Gods BRITISH 20th 9 NOVEL 27
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52 H.G. Wells 6 In the Days of the Comet BRITISH 20th 10 NOVEL 28
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53 Lafcadio Hearn 1 In Ghostly Japan JAPANESE 20th 1 ESSAYS 4
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54 Lafcadio Hearn 2 Japan An Attempt at Interpretation JAPANESE 20th 2
ESSAY 5
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