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READING 2010
Attached is a list of the books I read in 2010.
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. For the complete list of my reading
since 1958, see
http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html
Richard Seltzer seltzer@seltzerbooks.com
January
1 Roberto Bolano 4 2666: The Part about
the Crimes CHILE 21st 1 NOVEL 1
2 Roberto Bolano 5 2666: ***The Part about
Archimboldi CHILE 21st 2 NOVEL 2
3 Lisa Lutz 1 The Spellman Files AMERICAN
21st 1 NOVEL 3
4 Tana French 1 ****The Likeness IRISH
21st 1 NOVEL 4
5 William Makepeace Thackeray 1 The
History of Henry Esmond BRITISH 19th 1 NOVEL 4
February
6 John Berendt 1 **Midnight in the Garden
of Good and Evil AMERICAN 20th 1 NOVEL 5
7 Junot Diaz 1 **The Brief and Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao AMERICAN 21st 1 NOVEL 6
8 Aravind Adiga 1 ***The White Tiger
INDIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 7
9 Cormac McCarthy 9 **Suttree AMERICAN
20th 2 NOVEL 8
March
10 Jane Smiley 5 ****Greenlanders AMERICAN
20th 3 NOVEL 9
11 Vivian Mercier (editor) Great
Irish Short Stories IRISH 19th 1 SHORT STORIES 1
12 Elizabeth McCracken 3 An Exact Replica
of a Figment of My Imagination AMERICAN 21st 2 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1
April
13 Jay Parini 1 The Last Station: A Novel
of Tolstoy's Final Year AMERICAN 21st 3 NOVEL 10
14 Peter Akinti 1 Forest Gate BRITISH 21st
1 NOVEL 11
15 Ian McEwan 8 *Solar AMERICAN 21st 4
NOVEL 12
16 Colum McCann 1 ****Let the Great World
Spin IRISH 21st 2/AMERICAN 21st 5 NOVEL 13
17 Paul Harding 1 (minus **, terrible)
Tinkers AMERICAN 21st 6 NOVEL 14
May
18 Chris Cleave 1 **Little Bee BRITISH
21st 1 NOVEL 15
19 Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr. 1 A Brief
History of Egypt AMERICAN 21st 7 HISTORY 1
20 Wallis Budge 1 Egyptian Religion
BRITISH 19th 1 HISTORY 2
21 Wallis Budge 2 Egyptian Book of the
Dead EGYTPTIAN BC 1 RELIGION 1
22 George Andrew Reisner 1 The Egyptian
Conception of Immortality BRITISH 19th 2 RELIGION 2
June
23 Naguib Mafouz 2 **Palace Walk EGYPTIAN
20th 1 NOVEL 16
24 Naguib Mafouz 3 **Palace of Desire
EGYPTIAN 20th 2 NOVEL 17
25 Naguib Mafouz 4 **Sugar Street EGYPTIAN
20th 3 NOVEL 18
26 Richard Burton 5 Arabian Nights
volume 5 ARABIAN Middle Ages 1 SHORT STORIES 1
27 Ian Shaw 1 The Oxford History of
Ancient Egypt BRITISH 20th 1 HISTORY 2
28 Jonathan Cott 1 ***The Search for
Omm Seti BRITISH 20th 2 HISTORY 3
29 George Rawlinson 1 Ancient Egypt
BRITISH 20th 3 HISTORY 4
30 W.M. Flinders Petrie 1 Egyptian Tales
volume 1 EGYPTIAN BC 2 RELIGION 3
31 W.M. Flinders Petrie 2 Egyptian Tales
volulme 2 EGYPTIAN BC 3 RELIGION 3
32 Wallis Budge 3 Legends of the Gods
EGYPTIAN BC 4 RELIGION 4
33 Arthur Weigall 1 The Treasury of
Ancient Egypt BRITISH 20th 4 HISTORY 4
July
34 Tom Bissell 1 Extra Lives AMERICAN 21st
8 ESSAY 1
35David Mitchell 1 ***Ghostwritten BRITISH
20th 5 NOVEL 19
August
36 David Mitchell 2 ***The Thousand
Autumns of Jacob de Zoet BRITISH 21st 2 NOVEL 20
37 David Mitchell 3 ***Black Swan Green
BRITISH 20th 6 NOVEL 21
September
38 David Mitchell 4 ****Cloud Atlas
BRITISH 21st 3 NOVEL 22
39 David Michell 5 *Number9 Dream BRITISH
20th 7 NOVEL 23
40 David Sedaris 3 **Squirrel Seeks
Chipmunk AMERICAN 21st 7 SHORT STORIES 2
October
41 Jose Saramago 11 *The Elephant's
Journey PORTUGUESE 21st NOVEL 24
42 Jonathan Franzen 3 **Freedom AMERICAN
21st 8 NOVEL 25
43 Jane Smiley 6 **The Invention of
the Computer AMERICAN 21st 9 BIOGRAPHY 1
44 Ralph Waldo Emerson 3 *Essays
First Series AMERICAN 19th 1 ESSAYS 2
45 John Marshall 1 ***The Life of George
Washington, volume 1 AMERICAN 19th 2 BIOGRAPHY 2
November
46 Jesse Schell 1 ***The Art of Game
Design AMERICAN 21st 10 ESSAY 3
47 Marshall Wilder (editor) 1 ***The Wit
and Humor of America, volume 1 AMERICAN 20th 4 SHORT STORIES 3
48 Cynthia Salvadori 1 ****Slaves and
Ivory, Continued KENYA 21st 1 HISTORY 4
49 Marshall Wilder (editor) 2 ***The Wit
and Humor of American, volume 2 AMERICAN 20th 5 SHORT STORIES
4
December
50 H.G. Wells 4 First Men on the Moon
BRITISH 20th 8 NOVEL 26
51 H.G. Wells 5 Food of the Gods BRITISH
20th 9 NOVEL 27
52 H.G. Wells 6 In the Days of the Comet
BRITISH 20th 10 NOVEL 28
53 Lafcadio Hearn 1 In Ghostly Japan
JAPANESE 20th 1 ESSAYS 4
54 Lafcadio Hearn 2 Japan An Attempt at
Interpretation JAPANESE 20th 2 ESSAY 5
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