Jan. 3rd, 2010

Books of 2010

Jan. 3rd, 2010 11:38 am
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Borrowing a page from [personal profile] keshwyn, am going to try a single entry with books I've read in 2010, and see if I can keep up with that better.

Total fiction: 64
Total non-fiction: 11
Total so far this year: 75
Total new to me: 33
Total re-reads: 42
(totals updated at the end of each month)

New to me
April
1) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks : Rebecca Skloot : the story of the woman whose cancer cells became the widely used and amazing prolific HeLa cell line, done with a lot of compassion and grace.

Re-read
April



Archive: new to me
January
1: Catching Fire : Suzanne Collins (2nd in the Hunger Games series)
2: Click here for murder: Donna Andrews (2nd in the Turing Hopper series)
3: Soulless : Gail Carriger
4: The Enchantment Emporium : Tanya Huff
5: Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms: How to be your own diagnostic detective : Joan Liebmann-Smith and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
6: The Women of Nell Gwynne's : Kage Baker
7: Every Patient Tells A Story : Medical Mysteries and the art of diagnosis : Lisa Sanders
8: The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici : Jeanne Kalogridis
9: Curse of the Good Girl : Rachel Simmons

February
1: Thyme of Death : Susan Wittig Albert
2: Witch's Bane : Susan Wittig Albert
3: Hangman's Root : Susan Wittig Albert (all three in the China Bayles series)
4: Damage Control: Women on the Therapists, beauticians, and trainers who navigate their bodies : collection of essays edited by Emma Forrest.
5: Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party : Max Blumenthal.
6: Dust to Dust : Beverly Connor
7: Bright-Sided : How the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America : Barbara Ehrenreich
8: Trick or Treat: Kerry Greenwood (I love this series: Australian baker solves mysteries!)
9: The Thief : Megan Whalen Turner
10: Queen of Attolia : Megan Whalen Turner
11: King of Attolia : Megan Whalen Turner
12: Tug of War : Barbara Cleverly
13: Bright Hair About The Bone : Barbara Cleverly
14: The First Year: Hypothyroidsm : Maureen Pratt

March
1) Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories : Connie Willis
2) Curse as dark as gold : Elizabeth Bunce
3) Blackwork : Monica Ferris
4) The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Kate Summerscale : a look at an infamous murder (of a 3 year old boy) in the 1860s in England.
5) Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie Chang
6) A Secret Country: The Hidden Australia : John Piliger
7) Years of Rice and Salt : Kim Stanley Robinson
8) Oath of Fealty : Elizabeth Moon
9) Dinosaurs in the Attic : Douglas Preston
10) The Lyncher in Me: A search for redemption in the face of history : Warren Read (about the great-grandson of one of the people jailed for an infamous lynching in Duluth in 1920 and his discovery of that fact, and how it changed how he viewed his family.)

Archive: Rereads
January
1: Exile's Honor : Mercedes Lackey
2: Arrows of the Queen : Mercedes Lackey
3: The Art of Detection : Laurie R. King
4: Arrow's Fall : Mercedes Lackey
5: The President's Daughter : Ellen Emerson White (her President's Daughter series)
6: White House Autumn : Ellen Emerson White (her President's Daughter series)
7: Long Live the Queen : Ellen Emerson White (her President's Daughter series)
8: Long May She Reign : Ellen Emerson White (her President's Daughter series)
9: Locked Rooms: Laurie King
10: Bell, Book, and Murder : Omnibus of 3 Bast novels : Rosemary Edghill
11: Scent to her grave : India Ink
12: A Blush with death : India Ink
13: Glossed and found : India Ink

February
1: Ghost of a chance : Yasmine Galenorn
2: Harvest of Bones : Yasmine Galenorn
3: Legend of the Jade Dragon : Yasmine Galenorn
4: Heris Serrano (3 book omnibus): Elizabeth Moon
5: Serrano Connection (2 book omnibus) : Elizabeth Moon
6: Serrano Succession (2 book omnibus) : Elizabeth Moon
7: The bee's kiss : Barbara Cleverly
8: The palace tiger : Barbara Cleverly
9: Under a Mystic Moon : Yasmine Galenorn
10: Scattered Graves : Beverly Connor
11: Dead Hunt : Beverly Connor
12: Dead Guilty: Beverly Connor
13: A Brother's Price : Wen Spencer

March
1) Gibbon's Decline and Fall : Sherri Tepper
2) The Weaver and the Factory Maid : Deborah Grabien
3) Famous Flower of Serving Men : Deborah Grabien
4) Matty Groves : Deborah Grabien
5) Cruel Sister : Deborah Grabien
6) New Slain Knight : Deborah Grabien
(#s 2-6 are her folk songs and ghosts mysteries series, which I like a lot: each mystery is tied into a traditional folk song.)
7) Native Tongue : Suzette Haden Elgin
8) Judas Rose: Suzette Haden Elgin
9) Letter of Mary : Laurie King
10) Alone In the Kitchen with an Eggplant : edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
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