Top 5 2010

It's hard to believe it's been about a year since I started this blog, half assedly writing about the books I read (did I just make up that word assedly?). I'm glad because for someone who loves to read, I don't really remember what I read whether it was good or bad.

So my list for my favorite books read in 2010, in no particular order.

1. Last Night in Montreal -Emily St. John Mandel
2. American Pastoral -Philip Roth
3. From Hell -Alan Moore
4. Just Kids -Patti Smith
5. Disgrace -J.M. Coetzee

The ones that ALMOST made the list...

-First Fiction (various authors)
-As I Lay Dying -William Faulkner

Here are some friend's lists...

Ms Dani.
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)

Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)

The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt)

The Second Sex (Simone de Beauvoir)

Jacob's Room (Virginia Woolf)

Rachel
1. Dorothy L. Sayers - "Lord Peter - The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories"
2. Evelyn Waugh - "Scoop"
3. Kazuo Ishiguro - "Never Let Me Go"
4. Charlotte Bronte/Sherri Browning Erwin - "Jane Slayre"
5. Juan Filloy - "Op Oloop"

Julia
Brida by Coelho
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Diaz
Eleven Minutes by Coelho
Blindness by Saramago
Ishmael by Quinn