I’ve read a large number of books in 2010, and since I don’t see myself completing another book in the next two days, I’ve decided to post my annual list. This year, I kept track of all my books using Goodreads.com. I’ve tried to be accurate about when I finished a book; on those few occasions where I forgot the day, I’ve included only the month. All rereads are marked with a ® symbol. According to Goodreads, the longest book I read this year was
Ruined, an omnibus by Simone Elkeles, at 779. I don’t consider that my longest book, as the font was huge. Instead, the longest book should be
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell at 752 pages. As you can see from the rating (which is a range of 1-5), I’ve really liked most of the books I’ve read. I’m not very discriminating in that sense. The five star books are the ones that, for whatever reason, I absolutely loved. Some, like
Italian for Beginners, probably wouldn’t rank a 5 for most people. You could call this the year of Meg Cabot. I read (or reread) 14 books by Cabot this year. Meg Cabot’s
Insatiable (finished June 19th) was the first book I read on my nook. Of the books I read this year, 26% were on my nook. The rest of my stats break down like so:
Total number of books: 147
Total number of pages: 42,385 (this is actually lower than it should be, as a few of my ebooks are listed by goodreads as having 0 pages.)
5 star books: 27
4 star: 65
3 star: 12
2 star: 14
1 star: 3
ebooks: 39
To see the full list, click below:
The Full List:
| Title | Author | Rating | Date |
| Kiss Me, Kill Me | Lauren Henderson | 4 | Jan 2010 ® |
| Revealers | Amanda Marrone | 4 | Jan 2010 |
| Kisses and Lies | Lauren Henderson | 4 | 1-2 ® |
| As Sure as the Sun | Anna McPartlin | 4 | 1-2 |
| Kitty’s House of Horrors | Carrie Vaughn | 4 | 1-12 |
| Venetia | Georgette Heyer | 5 | 1-19 |
| Lost (Audio) | Gregory Maguire | 4 | 1-21 ® |
| When Lightning Strikes | Meg Cabot | 4 | 1-27 |
| While My Sister Sleeps | Barbara Delinsky | 4 | 1-28 |
| Code Name Cassandra | Meg Cabot | 3 | Feb 2010 |
| Safe House | Meg Cabot | 3 | 2-2 |
| Sanctuary | Meg Cabot | 3 | 2-3 |
| Melting Stones (Audio) | Tamora Pierce | 5 | 2-4 |
| Days of Gold | Jude Deveraux | 2 | 2-5 |
| Dead Witch Walking | Kim Harrison | 4 | 2-10 ® |
| Hush, Hush | Becca Fitzpatrick | 4 | 2-11 ® |
| Missing You | Meg Cabot | 4 | 2-14 |
| The Coherence of Gothic Conventions | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick | 5 | 2-15 ® |
| First Drop of Crimson | Jeanne Frost | 4 | 2-19 |
| Graceling | Kristin Cashore | 4 | 2-24 ® |
| The Dead Travel Fast | Deanna Raybourn | 5 | 2-25 |
| Silent in the Grave | Deanna Raybourn | 4 | 2-27 |
| Fire | Kristin Cashore | 3 | March 2010 |
| Jane Eyre (Audio) | Charlotte Brontë | 5 | 3-2 ® |
| Black Magic Sanction | Kim Harrison | 4 | 3-11 |
| Silent in the Sanctuary | Deanna Raybourn | 4 | 3-12 |
| Silent on the Moor | Deanna Raybourn | 5 | 3-13 |
| Wondrous Strange | Lesley Livingston | 3 | 3-14 |
| Kiss the Bride | Patricia (Meg) Cabot | 3 | 3-17 |
| Where Roses Grow Wild | Patricia (Meg) Cabot | 4 | 3-17 |
| Art of Darkness: A Poetics of the Gothic | Anne Williams | 4 | 3-18 |
| Frederica | Georgette Heyer | 4 | 3-22 |
| Mark of the Demon | Diana Rowland | 3 | 3-24 |
| Blood of the Demon | Diana Rowland | 3 | 3-26 |
| The Secret Year | Jennifer Hubbard | 4 | 3-27 |
| Darklight | Lesley Livingston | 4 | 4-8 |
| Thirteen Reasons Why | Jay Asher | 4 | 4-9 |
| Changeless | Gail Carriger | 4 | 4-13 |
| Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism’s Work is Done | Susan J. Douglas | 5 | 4-17 |
| Embers | Laura Bickle | 3 | 4-17 |
| Heist Society | Ally Carter | 3 | 4-23 |
| Mairelon the Magician | Patricia C. Wrede | 2 | May 2010 ® |
| And Only to Deceive | Tasha Alexander | 2 | 5-2 |
| Silver Borne | Patricia Briggs | 4 | 5-3 |
| Kiss in the Dark | Lauren Henderson | 4 | 5-3 |
| Beautiful Creatures | Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl | 4 | 5-6 |
| Hourglass | Claudia Gray | 3 | 5-7 |
| The Accidental Wereworlf | Dakota Cassidy | 3 | 5-9 |
| The Lark and the Wren | Mercedes Lackey | 1 | 5-11 ® |
| Runaway | Meg Cabot | 3 | 5-13 |
| Rules of Attraction | Simone Elkeles | 5 | 5-13 |
| The Girl Who Played With Fire | Steig Larrson | 5 | 5-18 ® |
| Her Fearful Symmetry | Audrey Niffenegger | 4 | 5-21 |
| Leaving Paradise | Simone Elkeles | 3 | 5-23 |
| The Demon’s Lexicon | Sarah Rees Brennan | 4 | 5-24 |
| The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest | Steig Larrson | 5 | 5-28 |
| Kiss of Death | Rachel Caine | 4 | 5-29 |
| Dead in the Family | Charlaine Harris | 3 | 5-30 |
| In the Woods | Tana French | 4 | 6-6 ® |
| The Likeness | Tana French | 5 | 6-10 ® |
| A Ring of Truth | Susan Beth Pfeffer | 4 | 6-11 |
| When it Happens | Susan Colastoni | 2 | 6-11 |
| Glimmerglass | Jenna Black | 4 | 6-11 |
| Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception | Maggie Steifvater | 4 | 6-14 |
| Insatiable | Meg Cabot | 5 | 6-19 |
| The White Cat | Holly Black | 5 | 6-20 |
| His Majesty’s Dragon | Naomi Novik | 4 | 6-22 |
| A Family Affair | Caro Peacock | 4 | 6-26 |
| Thirteenth Child | Patricia C. Wrede | 3 | 6-27 |
| The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker | Leanne Renee Heiber | 2 | 6-29 |
| Kitty Goes to War | Carrie Vaughn | 4 | 6-30 |
| Rage of Angels | Sidney Sheldon | 4 | July 2010 |
| Hex Hall | Rachel Hawkins | 4 | 7-3 |
| Red Hood’s Revenge | Jim C. Hines | 4 | 7-6 |
| Discord’s Apple | Carrie Vaughn | 4 | 7-7 |
| Weddings Can Be Murder | Christie Craig | 1 | 7-10 |
| The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake | Aimee Bender | 4 | 7-11 |
| A Conspiracy of Kings | Megan Whalen Turner | 4 | 7-13 |
| Faithful Place | Tana French | 5 | 7-14 |
| Front and Center | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | 2 | 7-19 |
| Linger | Maggie Steifvater | 4 | 7-20 |
| The Hollow | Jessica Verday | 3 | 7-23 |
| General Winston’s Daughter | Sharon Shinn | 4 | 7-25 |
| A Girl of the Limberlost | Gene Stratton Porter | 4 | 7-27 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 5 | 8-2 ® |
| Beautiful Lies | Lisa Unger | 4 | 8-4 |
| Shadow Bound | Erin Kellison | 3 | 8-6 |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | 5 | 8-7 ® |
| Emma | Jane Austen | 5 | 8-12 |
| The Boy Next Door | Meg Cabot | 4 | 8-13 ® |
| Boy Meets Girl | Meg Cabot | 4 | 8-14 ® |
| Every Boy’s Got One | Meg Cabot | 4 | 8-15 ® |
| Size 12 is Not Fat | Meg Cabot | 3 | 8-18 ® |
| Bet Me | Jennifer Crusie | 4 | 8-19 |
| Marked | Elisabeth Naughton | 2 | 8-29 |
| Scarlet Nights | Jude Deveraux | 3 | 8-20 |
| The Postmistress | Sarah Blake | 3 | 8-23 |
| Wives and Daughters | Elizabeth Gaskell | 4 | 8-31 |
| Maybe This Time | Jennifer Crusie | 5 | 8-31 |
| Jennifer Crusie Bundle (Charlie All Night, Strange Bedpersons, Getting Rid of Bradley, What the Lady Wants) | Jennifer Crusie | 4 | 9-3 |
| The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie | Alan Bradley | 3 | 9-7 |
| Hush Money | Susan Bischoff | 2 | 9-8 |
| Evermore | Allison Noël | 3 | 9-16 ® |
| Shadow Souls | L.J. Smith | 1 | 9-17 |
| Infinite Days | Rebecca Maizel | 5 | 9-18 |
| My Soul to Lose | Rachel Vincent | 2 | 9-19 |
| Faking It | Jennifer Crusie | 3 | 9-23 |
| Once a Witch | Carolyn MacCullough | 4 | 9-24 |
| Accidentally Demonic | Dakota Cassidy | 2 | 9-26 |
| Wild Ride | Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer | 3 | 9-27 |
| I Shall Wear Midnight | Terry Pratchett | 5 | 10-2 |
| Enchanting the Lady | Kathryne Kennedy | 3 | 10-6 |
| Italian for Beginners | Kristen Harmel | 5 | 10-8 |
| Don’t Judge a Girl by her Cover | Ally Carter | 3 | 10-11 ® |
| Jane | April Lindner | 3 | 10-13 |
| Dark Road to Darjeeling | Deanna Raybourn | 5 | 10-17 |
| Scandal Sheet | Gemma Halliday | 3 | 10-18 |
| Family Tree | Barbara Delinsky | 3 | 10-22 |
| Lady of Skye | Patricia (Meg) Cabot | 3 | 10-23 |
| Ghost Town | Rachel Caine | 5 | 10-27 |
| Crescendo | Becca Fitzpatrick | 3 | 10-30 |
| Mistwood | Leah Cypress | 5 | November 2010 |
| Blameless | Gail Carriger | 3 | 11-14 |
| Jekel Loves Hyde | Beth Fantasky | 5 | 11-19 |
| Slayed | Amanda Marrone | 4 | 11-20 |
| Hearts At Stake | Alyxandra Harvey | 2 | 11-21 |
| Heat Wave | Richard Castle | 3 | 11-22 |
| The Help (Audio) | Kathryn Stockett | 5 | 11-23 |
| Magic Under Glass | Jaclyn Dolamore | 2 | 11-24 |
| The Battle Sylph | L.J. McDonald | 4 | 11-27 |
| Pack Up the Moon | Anna McPartlin | 3 | December 2010 |
| The Spirit Thief | Rebecca Aaron | 4 | 12-2 |
| Paranormalcy | Kiersten White | 4 | 12-3 |
| Sandman Slim | Richard Kadrey | 5 | 12-9 |
| The Absolute Sandman, Vol 1 | Neil Gaiman | 5 | 12-10 |
| The Eternal Ones | Kirsten Miller | 4 | 12-10 |
| The Spirit Rebellion | Rebecca Aaron | 4 | 12-14 |
| Audrey, Wait! | Robin Benway | 4 | 12-15 |
| Fast Women | Jennifer Crusie | 4 | 12-15 |
| Agnes and the Hitman | Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer | 4 | 12-17 |
| Manhunting | Jennifer Crusie | 3 | 12-19 |
| Perfect Chemistry | Simone Elkeles | 4 | 12-19 ® |
| Ruined | Simone Elkeles | 2 | 12-20 |
| The Little Lady Agency | Hester Browne | 2 | 12-25 |
| Serenity: The Shepherd’s Tale | Zack Whedon | 3 | 12-25 |
| Ascendant | Diana Peterfreund | 4 | 12-29 |
| His Lady Mistress | Elizabeth Rolls | 3 | 12-30
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