Monday, January 4, 2010

Books of 2010

Last year was officially the worst year yet regarding the amount of books read (29 for 2009). Maybe 2010 will be the year I finally reach my 60 book goal. So here goes...



***NOTE: Since #38 and #40 were very short books I have upped my goal to 62 books for the year** June 16 2010

  1. "The Other Side Of Desire" by Daniel Bergner
  2. "The Only Poker Book You'll Ever Need" by John "Johnny Quads" Wenzel
  3. "Stori Telling" by Tori Spelling
  4. "Nature's Extremes" by Kelly Knauer
  5. "Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution" by Robert Atkins
  6. "Nine Parts Of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women" by Geraldine Brooks
  7. "The Genotype Diet" by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo
  8. "The Writing On My Forehead" by Nafisa Haji
  9. "Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk
  10. "The Wise Heart" by Jack Kornfield
  11. "Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters" by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa
  12. "Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk
  13. "A Big Little Life" by Dean Koontz
  14. "Mr. B. Gone" by Clive Barker
  15. "What Everyone Needs To Know About Islam" by John L. Esposito
  16. "Lullaby" by Chuck Palahniuk
  17. "A Saint On Death Row" by Thomas Cahill
  18. "Girls Of Riyadh" by Rajaa Alsanea
  19. "Brain Building" by Marilyn Vos Savant and Leonore Fleischer
  20. "The Blood Of Flowers" by Anita Amirrezvani
  21. "Invisible Monsters" by Chuck Palahniuk  
  22. "The Relationship Cure" by John Gottman and Joan DeClaire
  23. "The Big Questions" by Lama Surya Das
  24. "Living The Mindful Life" by Charles T. Tart
  25. "Daughter Of The Ganges" by Asha Miro
  26. "Kinshu: Autumn Brocade" by Teru Miyamoto
  27. "Half A Life" by V.S. Naipaul
  28. "The Consequences Of Love" by Sulaiman Addonia
  29. "Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior" by Chogyam Trungpa
  30. "The Others" by Seba Al-Herz
  31. "Teachings On Love" by Thich Nhat Hahn
  32. "The Brain On Love" by Daniel G. Amen
  33. "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyowski with Sharon Lechter
  34. "The Shadow Effect" by Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford and Marianne Williamson
  35. "In The Valley Of The Kings" by Terrence Holt
  36. "Snuff" by Chuck Palahniuk
  37. "A Child Called It" by David Pelzer
  38. "50 Things To Do With A Book" by Bruce McCall
  39. "Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant" by Robert Kiyowski with Sharon Lechter
  40. "The Pure Lover" by David Plante
  41. "F U Penguin" by Matthew Gasteier
  42. "Wolf Dreams" by Yasmina Khadra
  43. "The Possession" by Annie Ernaux
  44. "Jealousy" by Catherine Millet
  45. "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk
  46. "Buddha Is As Buddha Does" by Lama Surya Das
  47. "I Am A Strange Loop" by Douglas Hofstadter
  48. "The Suicide Collectors" by David Oppegaard
  49. "Fractal Time" by Greg Braden
  50. "The Great Medicine That Conquers Clinging To The Notion Of Reality" by Shechen Rabjam
  51. "The End Of Alice" by A. M. Homes (read also in 2005)
  52. "How To Be A Quick Turn Real Estate Millionaire" by Ron LeGrand
  53. "Beatrice And Virgil" by Yann Martel
  54. "A Concise Introduction To Tibetan Buddhism" by John Powers
  55. "Saffron Dreams" by Shaila Abdullah
  56. "The Case For Pluto" by Alan Boyle
  57. "It's Up To You" by Dzigar Kongtrul
  58. "Strange Bedfellows" by David P.Barash and Judith Eve Lifton
  59. "Calling On Extraterrestrials" by Lisette Larkins
  60. "Glimpses Of Traditional Indian Life" by Bhakti Vikasa Swami
  61. "A Beginner's Guide To Reality" by Jim Baggot
  62. "The New Meditation Handbook" by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
  63. "Go Ask Alice" by Anonymous
  64. "The First Born Advantage" by Dr. Kevin Leman
  65. "Then We Came To The End" by Joshua Ferris
  66. "Knulp" by Hermann Hesse
  67. "Happiness" by Mathieu Ricard
  68. "The Book Of Awesome" by Neil Pasricha
  69. "Gordon Ramsay: On Top Of The World" by Neil Simpson
  70. "Strange News From Another Star" by Hermann Hesse
  71. "Reading Lolita In Tehran" by Azar Nafisi
  72. "Haroun And The Sea Of Stories" by Salman Rushdie
  73. "Pillars Of The Earth" by Ken Follett
  74. "Blood Secrets" by Rod Englert
  75. "Interpreter Of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
  76. "What I Thought I Knew" by Alice Eve Cohen
  77. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
  78. "Lie Down With Lions" by Ken Follett
  79. "All The Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy
  80. "A Special Place" by Peter Straub
  81. "The Nine Emotional Lives Of Cats" by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
  82. "Dissecting Death" by Frederick Zugibe and Daved L. Carroll
  83. "Child Of God" by Cormac McCarthy
  84. "Outer Dark" by Cormac McCarthy
  85. "A General Theory Of Love" by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon
  86. "Whiteout" by Ken Follett
  87. "God Is Not One" by Stephen Prothero
  88. "The Girl: A Journey In Memories Through The Self" by Stephan Pacheco

2 comments:

..Insane_Racounter.. said...

That's quite a roster!
Time to for an update, i know you read more. Go 100!! you can do it.
I'll be surprised if i can get to 10.
That will definitely, include one written by you.

Sphinx said...

!!! Haven't had comment in AGES! So nice to see one from you!
BTW the story I wrote when I was 14 hardly counts as a book. Nice try though...
:) :*