As 2010 draws to a close, I decided to take stock of all the books I read this year. Even though I belonged to sites like Goodreads.com and had all my ebooks available on my nook, I really didn’t keep good records on what I’ve been reading. In light of that, while the following list may be incomplete it is a very good representation of my reading habits for the past year.
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (EB)
- The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (EB)
- The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker (EB)
- Who Goes There?, John W. Campbell (EB)
- Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas, Ace Collins (EB)
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (EB)
- Makers, Cory Doctorow (EB)
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory Doctorow (EB)
- Lord Foul’s Bane, Stephen R. Donaldson (DTB) (RR)
- The Illearth War, Stephen R. Donaldson (DTB) (RR)
- The Power That Preserves, Stephen R. Donaldson (DTB) (RR)
- Sandman Slim, Richard Kadrey (EB)
- Act One, Nancy Kress (EB)
- The City & the City, China Mieville (EB)
- Little Fuzzy, Henry Beam Piper (EB)
- Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (EB)
- Stiff, Mary Roach (EB)
- Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer (DTB)
- Humans, Robert J. Sawyer (EB)
- Hybrids, Robert J. Sawyer (EB)
- WWW:Wake, Robert J. Sawyer (DTB, EB)
- Old Man’s War, John Scalzi (DTB, EB) (RR)
- The God Engines, John Scalzi (DTB, EB)
- Metatropolis, John Scalzi (Editor) (EB)
- Hyperion, Dan Simmons (DTB) (RR)
- Fall of Hyperion, Dan Simmons (DTB) (RR)
- Endymion, Dan Simmons (DTB) (RR)
- Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons (DTB) (RR)
- Palimpsest, Charles Stross (EB)
- The Atrocity Archives, Charles Stross (DTB)
- The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross (EB)
- Julian Comstock, Robert Charles Wilson (EB)
Not an impressive list, but it’s a lot larger than it would have been if a) I hadn’t bought my nook, and b) I didn’t find a box with dozens of titles I’d thought I’d lost forever. And in case you’re wondering about the gibberish after each author’s name, it’s just a little code I came up with to tell me more about each book. I’ll spell them out below:
(DTB) = Dead Tree Book (a physical book)
(EB) = eBook, or in Barnes & Noble parlance, a “NOOKbook”
(RR) = Reread, I book that I enjoyed so much that I decided to read it again.
