Books Read in 2010

Ahhh, New Year's Eve. Or, as a friend recently said to me, "Old Year's Eve." I think that's rather appropriate, actually. I've completed my list of books that I've read this year and am quite pleased with it. I'm sure that I've missed a few books that I've read but that's okay. :-)  (I'll keep better track in 2011.)

A recent survey showed that most Americans only read ONE book a year. ONE. I find that rather sad. Books are some of my best friends. (Oh, how sad, those of you who are not readers may say.) When it's a good book filled with great characters, something in you changes. I read an awesome quote the other day.

"A book is a living thing, Willa. It soaks into your mind and heart and shapes how you think and feel. Every book you read becomes a part of you." - Coleen Murtagh Paratore

I think this is absolutely true. That's why it's important to read good books.

So. My list of what I read this year. It's heavily influenced by the fact that I had my last semester of university this spring. (Graduated, too! Yay!) Most of the "classics" on the list were required reading. I enjoyed most of them but a few...well, let's just say that I wouldn't recommend them. (I think on another post I'll put up the "Books Everyone Should Read Before They Die" article that came out and mark the books that I've read. I think that list will influence my reading choices next year.) Let me know what books you've read. :-)

**I might be adding to this list as I remember other books that I've read.**

1. The Minor Prophets: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
2. Epistles: Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
4. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
5. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
6. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
7. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred Taylor
8. The Slave Dancer - Paula Fox
9. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
10. The Things They Carried - O-Brien
11. Hard Times - Charles Dickens
12. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
13. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
14. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
15. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
16. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
17. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
18. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
19. Middlemarch - George Eliot
20. Dragon Kiss - E.D. Baker
21. The Cupid Connection - Coleen Murtagh Paratore
22. Willa at Heart - Coleen Murtagh Paratore
23. The Princess Plot - Kirsten Boie
24. The Princess Trap - Kirsten Boie
25. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
26. The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan
27. The Red Pyramid - Rick Riordan
28. Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep - Gail Carson Levine
29. The Birthday Ball - Lois Lowry
30. The Thirteenth Princess - Diane Zahler
31. The White Dragon - Anne McCaffrey
32. The Masterharper of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
33. Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey
34. Dragonquest - Anne McCaffrey
35. Dragonsong - Anne McCaffrey
36. Dragonsinger - Anne McCaffrey
37. Dragondrums - Anne McCaffrey
38. All the Weyrs of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
39. The Fairy’s Return - Gail Carson Levine
40. The Extra-Ordinary Princess - Carolyn Q. Ebbitt
41. Wyatt Earp - Stewart Holbrook
42. Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders -
43. Half-Moon Investigations - Eoin Colfer
44. Practicing Hospitality - Patricia A. Ennis, Lisa Tatlock
45. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
46. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
47. Coming Attractions - Robin Jones Gunn
48. Fairest - Gail Carson Levine
49. The Teaberry Strangler - Laura Childs
50. Swan for the Money - Donna Andrews
51. The Atlantis Complex - Eoin Colfer
52. The Christmas Star - Thomas Kinkade 
53. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #1 - Jeff Kinney 
54. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2 - Jeff Kinney
55. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #3 - Jeff Kinney
56. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4 - Jeff Kinney
57. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #5 - Jeff Kinney
58. The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss