What Have You Read This Year?

[S. Gomez]

It's that time of year again. 2010 is almost over and 2011 is just under two weeks away. What books have you read this past year?

For me, it turned out to be the year I re-read a bunch of old favourites, especially series, including Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, Harry Potter, and about half of Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey books and half also of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin cycle (I might finish that one in the new year, but I might not). A bunch of Shakespeare as well. So the list of books I read for the first time this year is a little smaller, and the list of the ones I really liked is smaller still. Here it is:

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Odd And The Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Casting The Runes, and Other Ghost Stories by M.R. James
Muse of Fire by Dan Simmons
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Book of William by Paul Collins
Carrie by Stephen King

In 2011, I plan to read more new (to me) books by new authors.

 

[PsychoPere]

Here goes, to the best of my recollection...

• Bernstein & Woodward's All the President's Men
• Woodward's Shadow: Five Presidents & the Legacy of Watergate
• Mass Effect: Retribution & Redemption
• Star Trek
  • Enterprise post-finale novels
  • DS9 relaunch through Unity, plus A Stitch in Time & The Lives of Dax
  • TNG post-Nemesis novels (Resistance through Greater Than the Sum)
  • Titan novels up to Destiny
  • New Frontier: No Limits
  • Tales of the Dominion War
• Star Wars
  • Republic Commando series
  • Legacy of the Force series

I think that might be everything, or at least close to it. I've been trying to get caught up on media tie-ins (obviously...). Between that goal and school, I haven't had a chance to read the many other novels I have sitting around here, many of which are non-fiction.

 

[Garak]

Hustler, mostly.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Here are some highlights for me...my total list of books would be too long.

-Obama's War: Bob Woodward
-The Family of Secrets: Russ Baker
-The Towers of Midnight: Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
-Star Trek 2009 Novelization: Alan Dean Foster
-Batman and Robin Volume One: Grant Morrison
-Kick-Ass Book One: Mark Millar
-The Lost Fleet: Victorious: Jack Campbell
-Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia
-The Lost Encyclopedia: Tara Bennett and Paul Simpson
-Cleopatra: A Life: Stacy Shiff
-Blackest Night: Geoff Johns
-Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds: Geoff Johns
-Star Trek Zero Sum Game
-Starcraft II: Wings of Victory Heaven's Devils: William C. Diez
-The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Stig Larson
-The Girl Who Played With Fire: Stig Larson
-The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: Stig Larson
-The Stain: Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
-Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight Twilight: Brad Meltzer
-Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life: Bryan Lee O'Malley
-Scott Pilgrim Vs The World: Bryan Lee O'Malley
-Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness: Bryan Lee O'Malley
-Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together: Bryan Lee O'Malley
-Scott Pilgrim Vs The Universe: Bryan Lee O'Malley
-Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour: Bryan Lee O'Malley

 

[Starbreaker]

Star Trek:

Death in Winter
Resistance
Q&A
Before Dishonor
Destiny trilogy
Zero Sum Game

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Exultant by Stephen Baxter
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Replay by Ken Grimwood

 

[Miss Chicken]

I have only been keeping a list since May. Here is the books I have read since then.

1. The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
2. 100 Birds to see before You Die by David Chandler
3. Born or bred ? : Martin Bryant : the making of a mass murderer by Robert Wainwright
4. In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius by Arika Okrent
5. Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo
6. Alex and Me by Irene Pepperberg
7. He Who Fears the Wolf by Karin Fossum
8. White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America byDon Jordan and Michael Walsh
9. Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon by Charles Slack
10. Black Seconds by Karin Fossum
11. Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife by Lisa Miller
12. The time traveller's guide to medieval England : a handbook for visitors to the fourteenth century by Ian Mortimer
13. The Water's Edge by Karin Fossum
14. Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold by Michael Benanav
15. The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
16. The sisters who would be queen : the tragedy of Mary, Katherine, & Lady Jane Grey by Leanda De Lisle
17. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.s. Lewis
18. Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin
19. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
20. The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II by Nina Shandler
21. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
22. Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes by John H. Monnett
23. The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
24. The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin
25. The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch
26. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
27. Operation Napoleon by Arnaldur Indridason
28. Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay
29. Bad Intentions by Karin Fossum
30. Bad Ground: Inside the Beaconsfield Mine Rescue by Tony Wright
31. The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages by K. David Harrison
32. The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger
33. Wonder cats : true stories of extraordinary felines by Ashley Morgan.

This list shows that only about 1/3 of what I read is fiction. The only thing I read that was remotely about Star Trek was In the Land of Invented Languages as the author covered the creation of/and the speakers of Klingon among the several different artificial languages she looked at.

 

[Shurik]

A big collection of H.P. Lovecraft's works, Library Of America one.
Pillars Of The Earth and World Without End by Ken Follet.
First 6 Sookie Stackhouse books, now reading the seventh, by Charlaine Harris. Those books are enormous fun to read.

 

[Scotty]

I discovered the wonderful world of comics and graphic novels this year, so I read a lot of those. But I mixed it up with some novels and non-fiction books now and then.

Fiction:
"Company of Liars" by Karen Maitland
"Brotherhood of the Wolf" by David Farland

Non-Fiction
"Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets" by David Simon
"Halfway to Hollywood, Diaries 1980-1988" by Michael Palin
"Ghost Wars" by Steve Coll
"The Big Questions: The universe" by Staurt Clark
"Disney War" by James B. Stewart
"The Greatest Show On Earth" by Richard Dawkins
"Star Trek TOS 365" by Paula M. Block with Terry J. Erdmann

Comics & Graphic Novels
The Amazing Spider-man MMW vol 1-6.
The X-Men MMW vol.1
The Uncanny X-Men MMW vol.1
Batman Showcase vol.1
"Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller
"Batman: The Long Halloween" by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale

 

[JRS]

Here is a list of books that I have read this year(There might be couple of missing, though) :

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Michael Dobbs
Not in Your Lifetime
Anthony Summers
Thunderhead
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Distant Shores: A Tenth-Anniversary Celebration (Star Trek: Voyager)
Various
The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
Thurston Clarke
Bodomin Murhat( Bodom Murders)
Hannes Markkula
Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942-1945 (Modern War Studies)
Boris Gorbachevsky
Star TrekS9 Station Rage
Diane Carey
Star Trek:VOY Her Klingon Soul
Michael Jan Friedman
The Scarlatti Inheritance
Robert Ludlum
Sashenka
Simon Montefiore

 

[mimic]

1. Have Spacesuit Will Travel - Robert Heinlein
2. Have a Little Faith - Mitch Ablom
3. The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
4. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Larson Steig
5. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Larson Steig
6. One Bullet Away - Nathaniel Fick
7. Generation Kill - Evan Wright
8. Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden
9. The Girl Who Kicked a Hornet's Nest - Larson Steig
10. Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
11. Matterhorn - Karl Marlantes
12. The God of Small Things - Roy
13. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
14. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
15. Looking For Alaska - John Green
16. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
17. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
18. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
19. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
20. World WIthout End - Ken Follett
21. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaimon
22. Fighter Pilot - Robin Olds, Christina Olds
23. An Abundance of Katherines - John Green

 

[Lonemagpie]

Books, mainly.

(somebody had to say it)

 

[marillion]

The Millenium Trilogy (better known as "The Girl Who..." series) - Steig Larsson

Let the Right One In - John Lindqvist
Handling the Undead - John Lindqvist

Non-Swedish authors :

Strain - Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

The Walking Dead graphic novel series

 

[PsychoPere]

"Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets" by David Simon [....] "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller

If you haven't read it yet, Simon's The Corner is a great "companion piece," so to speak, to Homicide. If you liked Miller's TDKR, his Batman: Year One is definitely worth a read as well. I can't recall having read it myself, but, from everything I've heard about it, I would skip his The Dark Knight Strikes Again. Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum is also a fantastic Batman tale.

The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
Thurston Clarke

I have a copy of this but haven't had a chance to start it yet. How was it?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Fiction:

Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Lost Key by Dan Brown
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
Zero Sum Game by David Mack


Graphic novels:

The Beginning of the End of the Beginning by Keith DeCandido
Strange Detractors by Keith DeCandido
Gone and Back by Keith DeCandido
Uncharcted Tales: D'Argo's Lament by Keith DeCandido
Scorpius: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie by David Mack
Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale by Zack Whedon


...damn, I thought I had read more than that, although I was on Galileo's Dream, American Gods, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea for a long time each. Still, that's rather disappointing.

 

[JRS]

The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
Thurston Clarke

I have a copy of this but haven't had a chance to start it yet. How was it?

I found the book interesting and often though provoking( much better than I expected, actually)
It gives you pretty good picture of the campaign trail..and gave to me at least some new insights to RFK and of what he wanted to do for America.
Its well written and supprisingly quick to read. I suggest you give it a go

 

[PsychoPere]

I'll move that up on my list, then, and read it after I finish DS9: The Left Hand of Destiny. I originally purchased The Last Campaign about a year or so ago to accompany Evan Thomas's Robert Kennedy: His Life biography, but I never seemed to get around to reading it after I finished the other one.