In Which Trai Shows Her Work, Year Two

Just as I did last year, I shall share my list of books I read in 2010. My goal was to top last year's number--56--and I did by eight, bringing the total to 64. My goal for next year might just become 75!

As with last year, any books I didn't review on here were either required for school or ones (such as classics) where I couldn't think of anything original to say in my review. Let's hope 2011 brings me, and the rest of you, plenty of good books!

The List:

1) Mother To Be – Tanya Michaels
2) Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
3) Waiting for Baby – Cathy McDavid
4) If Only in My Dreams – Wendy Markham
5) A Walk to Remember – Nicholas Sparks
6) Prescription for Romance – Marie Ferrarella
7) Unexpected Gifts – Holly Jacobs
8) The Distant Summer – Sarah Patterson
9) Morning Glory – LaVyrle Spencer
10) King Lear – William Shakespeare
11) The Magic of Ordinary Days – Ann Howard Creel
12) The Family They Chose – Nancy Robards Thompson
13) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls – Steve Hockensmith
14) A Single Man – Christopher Isherwood
15) Angelic – Kelley Armstrong
16) Men of the Otherworld – Kelley Armstrong
17) Voices of Dragons – Carrie Vaughn
18) Jane Austen Ruined My Life – Beth Pattillo
19) Personal Demon – Kelley Armstrong
20) The Shape of Things – Neil Labute
21) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
22) The Girl Who Played with Fire – Stieg Larsson
23) Dearest Cousin Jane – Jill Pitkeathley
24) Stuff Every Woman Should Know – Alanna Kalb
25) Supernatural: Origins – Peter Johnson (author), Matthew Don Smith (illustrator)
26) The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
27) Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart – Beth Pattillo
28) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson
29) Heartbreak River – Tricia Mills
30) Android Karenina – Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters
31) Something Borrowed – Emily Giffin
32) Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
33) The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
34) Something Like Fate – Susane Colasanti
35) Kitty Goes to War – Carrie Vaughn
36) Something Blue – Emily Giffin
37) Good in Bed – Jennifer Weiner
38) Writing Jane Austen – Elizabeth Aston
39) Baby Proof – Emily Giffin
40) The President’s Daughter – Ellen Emerson White
41) The Man Who Loved Pride & Prejudice – Abigail Reynolds
42) One Day – David Nicholls
43) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel – Tony Lee and Cliff Richards
44) Emma and the Vampires – Jane Austen and Wayne Josephson
45) Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist
46) Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
47) Arabella – Georgette Heyer
48) The Minister’s Wooing – Harriet Beecher Stowe
49) Our Guys – Bernard Lefkowitz
50) Ruth Hall – Fanny Fern
51) Love the One You’re With – Emily Giffin
52) Lucky – Alice Sebold
53) Soulless – Gail Carriger
54) The Sign of Four – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
55) The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and The Struggle – L.J. Smith
56) Bastard Out of Carolina – Dorothy Allison
57) Miracle Baby – Laura Bradford
58) Rabbit Hole – David Lindsay-Abaire
59) The History of Love – Nicole Krauss
60) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
61) The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
62) The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
63) Mr. Darcy’s Obsession – Abigail Reynolds
64) 84, Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff

Have a Happy New Year, everyone, and see you in 2011!

- Trai

In Which Trai Shows Her Work

Since it's New Year's Eve and all, I figured I'd post the list of books I read in the past year. I keep track of the numbers for no reason at all, mostly just out of sheer curiosity. I topped the previous year's number of 37 (small number as I was busy with school and such) by 19 books; I'm happy! My goal is to get more time to read each ensuing year, so let's see what 2010 will bring! :)

(I haven't reviewed some of the books on this list after Guernsey, my first review, either because I read it for college or because I didn't wish to review it due to uncertain feelings.)

The List:

1) Revolutionary Road- Richard Yates
2) Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand- Carrie Vaughn
3) God-Shaped Hole- Tiffanie DeBartolo
4) The Notebook- Nicholas Sparks
5) Watchmen- Alan Moore
6) The Truth About Forever- Sarah Dessen
7) The Joy Luck Club- Amy Tan
8) March- Geraldine Brooks
9) Dedication- Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
10) Year of Wonders- Geraldine Brooks
11) Love is a Mix Tape- Rob Sheffield
12) A Streetcar Named Desire- Tennessee Williams
13) Jane Austen in Scarsdale- Paula Marantz Cohen
14) The English Patient- Michael Ondaatje
15) Gone With the Wind- Margaret Mitchell
16) Dead Until Dark- Charlaine Harris
17) Living Dead in Dallas- Charlaine Harris
18) Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict- Laurie Viera Rigler
19) The Time Traveler’s Wife- Audrey Niffenegger
20) Kitty Raises Hell- Carrie Vaughn
21) Audrey, Wait!- Robin Benway
22) Holly Would Dream- Karen Quinn
23) Two Guys Read Jane Austen- Steve Chandler and Terrence Hill
24) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies- Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
25) Colonel Brandon’s Diary- Amanda Grange
26) Breakfast at Tiffany’s- Truman Capote
27) Old School- Tobias Wolff
28) Head Games- Christopher Golden
29) Club Dead- Charlaine Harris
30) No Humans Involved- Kelley Armstrong
31) The Summoning- Kelley Armstrong
32) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society- Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
33) Agnes Grey- Anne Bronte
34) The Awakening- Kelley Armstrong
35) Joy in the Morning- Betty Smith
36) The Erasers- Alain Robbe-Grillet
37) On the Origin of PCs- Rich Burlew
38) Proof- David Auburn
39) One Tree Hill: The Beginning- Jenny Markas
40) The Book of Job- Stephen Mitchell
41) Aura- Carlos Fuentes
42) Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne- John Keats
43) Pedro Paramo- Juan Rulfo
44) Darkly Dreaming Dexter- Jeff Lindsay
45) Dear John- Nicholas Sparks
46) City of Glass- Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, and David Mazzucchelli
47) Dearly Devoted Dexter- Jeff Lindsay
48) Push- Sapphire
49) The Road- Cormac McCarthy
50) Dexter in the Dark- Jeff Lindsay
51) Reasons to Be Pretty- Neil LaBute
52) Testimony- Anita Shreve
53) The Pregnancy Test- Susan Gable
54) A Kid to the Rescue- Susan Gable
55) Kitty’s House of Horrors- Carrie Vaughn
56) The Last Song- Nicholas Sparks

Have a happy New Year, all! See you in 2010!

- Trai