It seems to be traditional that summing up the year takes place now. So, here's a list of what I thought were memorable reads for 2010. This is not a list of the best books or whatever--just a list of books that I most fondly remember reading, some of which I have posted comments about during the year. They're in alphabetical order by author, so there's no attempt to rank them. The chances are that the ranking would be different tomorrow, and possibly even the list might be slightly different.
Greg Benford: The Furious Gulf and the rest of the "Galactic Center Series"
Walter van Tilburg Clark: The Ox-Bow Incident
Ivy Compton-Burnett: The House and Its Head
Joseph Conrad: Nostromo
Loren Eiseley: Another Kind of Autumn (poetry) & The Immense Journey
Michael Gregorio: Critique of Criminal Reason & Days of Atonement
Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House
Bernard Knight: The Tinner's Corpse
Ursula LeGuin: The Left Hand of Darkness
N. Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain
Eliot Pattison: Prayer of the Dragon
Albert Sanchez Pinol: Cold Skin
Barbara Pym: Excellent Women
Kim Stanley Robinson: Vinland the Dream
Michael Shea: Nifft the Lean
Charles Todd: The Red Door
Jessie L. Weston: Quest of the Holy Grail & From Ritual to Romance
If you decide to read some of these, please let me know what you think of them.
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