Top 10 Books First Read During 2010

[Dead & Messed Up]

How does one request a sticky?

Anyway, I like the top 10 films threads, since they can be a good motivator to watch films. So I figure this could be a good motivator as well.

As of now:

01. The Dhammapada (Tr. Gil Fronsdal, 2005)
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[Milky Joe]

Alright.

1. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
2. Confessions by Jacob Boehme
3. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
4. The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick
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[Winston*]

01. Catch 22 (Heller)
02. More than Human (Sturgeon)
03. Occupied City (Peace)
04. My Dead Body (Huston)
05. Ender's Game (Scott Card)
06. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Larrson)
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Liked the first 4.

[Our Aurora]

1. Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
2. Uncle Tom's Children (Richard Wright)
3. Blues People (Leroi Jones a.k.a. Amiri Baraka)
4. The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
5. Lucy (Jamaica Kincaid)
6. Arrival of the Snake Woman (Olive Senior)
7. Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour (Peniel E. Joseph)
8. Buxton Spice (Oonya Kempadoo)
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[Ezee E]

1. The Old Man and the Sea (E. Hemingway)
2. Dali (?)
3. White Jazz (J. Ellroy)

[Llopin]

1. The End of the Road by J. Barth
2. The Living End by S. Elkin
3. Michael Kohlhass by H. von Kleist
4. Personal Mythology by A. Embrikos
5. A pale-blue woman's handwriting by F. Werfel
6. Theater and its Double by Artaud
7. Lenz by G. Buchner
8. L'agrume by V. Mréjen

[Duncan]

1. The Aeneid (Virgil, trans. by Robert Fagles)
2. 2666 (Roberto Bolano)
3. Stoner (John Williams)
4. Sixty Stories (Donald Barthelme)
5. Against the Day (Thomas Pynchon)
6. The Human Stain (Phillip Roth)
7. The Interrogation (J.M.G. Le Clezio)
8. The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
9. Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (Malcolm Lowry)
10. As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)

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Others:
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Warlock (Oakley Hall)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
The Atrocity Exhibition (JG Ballard)
Blindness (Jose Saramago)
Gargoyles (Thomas Bernhard)
Tinkers (Paul Harding)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
The Bell Jar (Silvia Plath)
The Golden Mean (Annabel Lyon)
Malone Dies (Samuel Beckett)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Ilustrado (Miguel Syjuco)
Gertrude (Hermann Hesse)
Mother Courage and her Children (Bertoldt Brecht) [play]
City of Glass (Paul Auster)
Life and Times of Michael K (J. M. Coetzee)
The Sickness Unto Death (Soren Kierkegaard)
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
The Colossus (Sylvia Plath) [poetry]
The Favourite Game (Leonard Cohen)
Blood Wedding (Federico Garcia Lorca) [play]
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Collector (John Fowles)
Decline and Fall (Evelyn Waugh)
The Broom of the System (David Foster Wallace)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello) [play]
Chimera (John Barth)
A Night at the Movies (Robert Coover)
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (David Sedaris)
Arms and the Man (George Bernard Shaw) [play]
De Niro's Game (Rawi Hage)
The Odes of Horace (Umm...Horace)
The Inferno (Dante)
Runaway (Alice Munro)
The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
Rabbit, Run (John Updike)

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[D_Davis]

Man - you guys are reading fast!


1. Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
2. Book of the New Sun - Volume 1 - Gene Wolfe
3. Ancient Sorceries and Other Tales - Algernon Blackwood
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[Spaceman Spiff]

Do re-reads count? If no,

1. Darkness at Noon

[ThePlashyBubbler]

1. White Noise (Don Delillo)
2. Go Tell It On the Mountain (James Baldwin)
3. Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
4. The Broom of the System (David Foster Wallace)
5. At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
6. The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
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Liked all 6, tough to order them.

[ledfloyd]

1. 2666
2. Catch 22
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
4. Freedom
5. All the Pretty Horses
6. The Trial
7. Blindness
8. The Handmaid's Tale
9. Henderson, The Rain King
10. The Castle

[Dead & Messed Up]

01. The Dhammapada (Tr. Gil Fronsdal, 2005)
02. Teatro Grottesco (Thomas Ligotti, 2006)
03. The Walking Dead Volumes 1-3 (Robert Kirkman, 2003)
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[Milky Joe]

Alright.

1. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
2. Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
3. Confessions by Jacob Boehme
4. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
5. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
6. The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick
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[lovejuice]

5. At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)

Liked all 6, tough to order them.

ooh...can't wait to start this book.

[ContinentalOp]

1. The Walking Dead Vol. 11: Fear the Hunters by Robert Kirkman
2. Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
3. Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
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TWD continues to impress me with its solid character development and pace, while Ripley's Game was an alternately fascinating and adequate addition to the Ripliad (I wanted more of Tom Ripley and less of the other main character). About a third of the way through Highsmith's Strangers on a Train and about halfway through King's Under the Dome. I want to read at least 20 books this year.

[monolith94]

only 2 so far…
1. The Variable Man & Other Stories — Philip K. Dick
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10. A Secret Atlas — Michael A. Stackpole (pretty bad)

[Dead & Messed Up]

TWD continues to impress me with its solid character development and pace, while Ripley's Game was an alternately fascinating and adequate addition to the Ripliad (I wanted more of Tom Ripley and less of the other main character). About a third of the way through Highsmith's Strangers on a Train and about halfway through King's Under the Dome. I want to read at least 20 books this year.

Nice. I just caught up with Walking Dead also, and I was engrossed by the "end." My goal is 20 also. I'm listening to Jaws in my car, reading the Gita at work, and working through Paradise Lost at home.

[kuehnepips]

Millennium-Trilogy
First book very good, second good, third so so

5. At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)

I love this one.

[Milky Joe]

The Third Policeman, however, is O'Brien's masterpiece.

[Dead & Messed Up]

01. The Dhammapada (Tr. Gil Fronsdal, 2005)
02. Teatro Grottesco (Thomas Ligotti, 2006)
03. The Walking Dead, Volumes 1 - 11 (Robert Kirkman, 2003)
04. Jaws (Peter Benchley, 1974)
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[dreamdead]

1. The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West
2. A Lost Lady, by Willa Cather
3. Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4. Their Eyes were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
5. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
6. Daisy Miller by Henry James

[Kurosawa Fan]

1. The Financial Lives of the Poets - Walter
2. Escape from the Deep - Kershaw
3. The Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver
4. The Book of Basketball - Simmons

[EvilShoe]

Not counting comics/counting re-reads.

1. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
2. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
4. Cities of the Plain - Cormac McCarthy
5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
6. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
8. The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
9. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
10. The Neon Bible - John Kennedy Toole

[Kurosawa Fan]

10. The Neon Bible - John Kennedy Toole

Uh oh. Was this not good? Did I miss your thoughts on this one?

[EvilShoe]

Uh oh. Was this not good? Did I miss your thoughts on this one?

Nah: It's still pretty good, rather liked it. Only read one dud this year (Belgian novella).

Impressive work for a 16-year old, but it's also very simplistic and obvious for the most part. Worth a read for fans of Confederacy.