Review Archive

This is a list of books I’ve completed in 2010. Click on the genre links below to see complete lists of books read since I started this blog in May 2008. Information on my in-progress rating system is at the bottom.

Fiction | Nonfiction | Literary Journalism | Memoir | Comic Books
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September 2010

• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (1 Sept 10) (YA fiction)
• The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Jennifer Steil (7 Sept 10) (memoir)

August 2010

• Drowned Ammet by Diana Wynne Jones (02 Aug 10) (YA fantasy)
• The Angel of Grozny by Åsne Seierstad (03 Aug 10) (literary journalism)
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (07 Aug 10) (fiction)
• Coop by Michael Perry (11 Aug 10) (memoir)
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (16 Aug 10) (memoir)
• News to Me by Laurie Hertzel (19 Aug 10) (memoir)
• Better Off by Eric Brende (20 Aug 10) (memoir)
• One and the Same by Abigail Pogrebin (21 Aug 10) (literary journalism)
• Transmetropolitan, Vol 1 by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson (22 Aug 10) (fiction/comic book)
• The Wild Vine by Todd Kliman (25 Aug 10) (literary journalism)
• The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley (28 Aug 10) (fiction)
• Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay (29 Aug 10) (fiction)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (31 Aug 10) (YA fiction)
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (31 Aug 10) (YA fiction)

July 2010

• The Big Year by Mark Obmascik (01 July 10) (literary journalism)
• In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (02 July 10) (memoir/travelogue) (audiobook)
• Denial: A Memoir of Terror by Jessica Stern (03 July 10) (fiction)
• Finny by Justin Kramon (04 July 10) (fiction)
• The Necklace by Cheryl Jarvis (05 July 10) (literary journalism, audiobook)
• Minority Report and Other Stories by Philip K. Dick (12 July 10) (short stories, audiob0ok)
• The Nuclear Age by Tim O’Brien (12 July 10) (fiction)
• Nine Humorous Tales by Anton Chekhov (13 July 10) (short stories)
• The Art of Time in Memoir by Sven Birkerts (16 July 10) (nonfiction)
• Everything is Going to be Great by Rachel Shukert (22 July 10) (memoir)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (25 July 10) (fiction)
• Cart and Cwidder by Diana Wynne Jones (26 July 10) (YA fantasy)
• Bottled and Sold by Peter H. Gleick (27 July 10) (nonfiction)

June 2010

• Unhooked by Laura Sessions Stepp (01 June 10) (nonfiction, audiobook)
• The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman (05 June 10) (literary journalism)
• Northern Lights by Tim O’Brien (09 June 10) (fiction)
• The Lost City of Z by David Grann (14 June 10) (literary journalism, audiobook)
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (15 June 10) (fiction)
• An Education by Lynne Barber (17 June 10) (memoir)
• Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson (18 June 10) (memoir/travelogue, graphic novel)
• Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle (19 June 10) (memoir/travelogue, graphic novel)
• Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien (19 June 10) (fiction)
• The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors by Michelle Young-Stone (21 June 2010) (fiction)
• Getting In by Karen Stabiner (23 June 10) (fiction)
• The Bucolic Plague by Josh Kilmer-Purcell (26 June 10) (memoir)
• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman (28 June 10) (nonfiction)

May 2010

• This Day in the Life by Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey, and B.K. Rakhra (2 May 2010) (nonfiction)
• Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden (6 May 2010) (memoir)
• The M-Factor by Lynne C. Lancaster and David Stillman (8 May 2010) (nonfiction)
• The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar (9 May 2010) (nonfiction)
• Newjack by Ted Conover (14 May 2010) (literary journalism)
• Looking for Alaska by John Green (15 May 2010) (YA fiction)
• A Few Seconds on Panic by Stefan Fatsis (22 May 2010) (audiobook)
• If I Die In a Combat Zone by Tim O’Brien (27 May 2010) (fiction)
• Everything is Broken by Emma Larkin (30 May 2010) (literary journalism)

April 201o

• Invictus by John Carlin (10 April 2010) (literary journalism)
• The Fiddler’s Gun by A.S. Peterson (11 April 2010) (historical fiction)
• The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Connor McNees (13 April 2010) (fiction)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (17 April 2010) (fiction)
• Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America by Gail Pool (22 April 2010) (nonfiction)
• The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson (25 April 2010) (travel memoir)

March 2010

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (02 Mar 10) (literary journalism)
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman (08 Mar 10) (fiction)
• Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt (12 Mar 10) (memoir)
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (19 Mar 10) (fiction)
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson (19 Mar 10) (literary journalism)
• Honeymoon in Tehran by Azadeh Moaveni (21 Mar 10) (memoir)
• Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, & Power by James McGrath Morris (26 Mar 10) (nonfiction)
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (27 Mar 10) (fiction)

February 2010

• The Blind Side by Michael Lewis (01 Feb 10) (literary journalism)
• “Socialism is Great!” A Worker’s Memoir of the New China by Lijia Zhang (06 Feb 10) (memoir)
• The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum (09 Feb 10) (literary journalism)
• Hunger: An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell (26 Feb 10) (nonfiction)

January 2010

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (02 Jan 10) (fiction)
• Dream Girl by Lauren Mechling (03 Jan 10) (YA fiction)
• Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda (15 Jan 10) (nonfiction)
• Dream Life by Lauren Mechling (18 Jan 10) (YA fiction)
• The Great Starvation Experiment by Todd Tucker (23 Jan 10) (nonfiction)

I’m in the process of implementing a ratings system, inspired by Anastasia at Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog, which is as follows:

Rating: = Loved it!
Rating: = Liked it a lot.
Rating: = Not bad, but I probably won’t reread it.
Rating: = Mostly bad, but had some merit.
Rating: = Not very good, I didn’t enjoy it much.
Rating: = Did not finish, or so bad I had nothing nice to say about it.