50 Books in 2010

2010: otherwise known as the year of the guilty pleasure read. Funny how grad school makes you crave the low-brow, like the Sookie Stackhouse series I became obsessed with mid-summer. Series fiction abounded, with a few notable exceptions, like McCann's "Let the Great World Spin" and Atwood's "Oryx and Crake". Most disappointing was Palahniuk's "Tell-All", which I'd looked forward to but found self-indulgent and predictable. Dare I say, I'm over you Chuck. The reverse-plot-surprise-ending-with-a-heap-of-the-vulgar-to-keep you-off-the-sent formula he uses in every book feels played out at this point. The man who got famous for taking so many risks needs to, well, take more risks. So here we are, 41 mediocre reads in 2010. (I resolve to make better selections in 2011.)

1 - Lost by Gregory Maguire
2 - Tess of D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
3 - My Antonia by Willa Cather
4. The Angel Experiment: Maximum Ride Series, Book 1 by James Patterson
5. School's Out Forever: Maximum Ride Series, Book 2 by James Patterson
6. Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports: Maximum Ride Series, Book 3 by James Patterson
7. The Final Warning: Maximum Ride Series, Book 4 by James Patterson
8. Max: Maximum Ride Series, Book 5 by James Patterson
9. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
10. Reference and Information Services by Richard E. Bopp and Linda C. Smith
11. Foundations of Library and Information Science by Richard E. Rubin
12. The Oxford Guide to Library Research by Thomas Mann
13. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
14. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
15. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
16. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
17. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
18. Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
19. Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
20. All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
21. From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
22. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
23. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
24. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
25. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
26. The Appointment by Herta Muller
27. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
28. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
29. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
30. The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
31. The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan
32. Soulless by Gail Carriger
33. Changeless by Gail Carriger
34. Blameless by Gail Carriger
35. You: Having a Baby by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz
36. Cataloging and Classification by Lois Mai Chan
37. Internet Technologies and Information Services by Joseph B. Miller
38. Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
39. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
40. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
41. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

"Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
-Groucho Marx