Favorite Reads of 2010
With the new year come the plethora of lists, and as always, it's time to add more of my own lists to the . . . list.
I checked through my LibraryThing account and discovered that I read 58 books last year. 58!! That's a little over one book each week. No wonder I needed new glasses . . . . Paring the list down to my 10 Favorite Reads was no easy task, but the results are below. And the dates in parentheses correspond to when my copy of the book was originally published.
1. Night of the Living Trekkies (2010) by Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall
2. Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (1985) by Florence King
3. Autumn (2010) by David Moody
4. Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter (2010) by A.E. Moorat
5. The Fifth Child (1989) by Doris Lessing
6. The Complete John Silence Stories (1997) by Algernon Blackwood
7. Bastard Out of Carolina (1993) by Dorothy Allison
8. The Dragon Factory (2010) by Jonathan Maberry
9. Boneshaker (2009) by Cherie Priest
10. Android Karenina (2010) by Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters
Yes, quite a bit of sci-fi and horror in the mix. I can't help myself. But, I also go out of my way to read LGBT books, which for me are books that either contain a major LGBT character or storyline. With that in mind, here's the list of my 5 favorite LGBT Reads of 2010:
1. Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (1985) by Florence King
2. Bastard Out of Carolina (1993) by Dorothy Allison
3. The Night Listener (2001) by Armistead Maupin
4. Openly Bob (1999) by Bob Smith
5. Another Country (1992) by James Baldwin
What your favorite reads are from 2010?
5 comments:
58 books ? !
that is impressive and it puts me to shame.
My only defense; I am still reading the same 900 page book
Because I no longer read as much as I did many years ago, I did not expect to find any matches with your list. But I did. I happened to read Openly Bob this past year.
I'm embarrassed to put the number of books I read. Far less than yours!
I'm happy to have made your Best Of list along with friends David Moody and Cherie Priest!
Not that it's my favorite book, but I have read Hop On Pop by Dr. Seuss about 3 million times. It was torture. I've now hidden the book so the twins don't find it. Other than that, I didn't have time to read anything else.
Your Friend, m.
Love the video. Is that a real movie?
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