My Books for 2010

Books Read in 2010


Most of book links are to Amazon. The author links are from all over - and they're pretty darn good so click on them. More links will be added - probably.


1. The Skull Mantra (Inspector Shan Tao Yun) by Eliot Pattison


2. Morality Play by Barry Unsworth


3. Ambrose Bierce and the One-Eyed Jacks by Oakley M. Hall


4. All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer


5. Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson - his blog: http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/


6. Agatha Christie's Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) by Agatha Christie


7. The Burning Land: A Novel (Saxon Tales) by Bernard Cornwell


8. American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan


9. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Chandler requires two links: http://www.levity.com/corduroy/chandler.htm


10. Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) by Walter Mosley


11. Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris


12. Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton


13. Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades: A Mystery Novel by Oakley M. Hall


14. Mayhem by J. Robert Janes


15. Carousel (St-Cyr and Kohler) by J. Robert Janes


16. Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
Slip virtually over to Oxford for a short course: http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/details.php?course_subject=English_Literature&id=O10P404LTV&coursetype=100


17. Henry IV, Part I (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare


18. Henry IV, Part II (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare


19. Anarchy and Old Dogs (Dr. Siri Paiboun) by Colin Cotterill


20. Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart


21. Kaleidoscope by J. Robert Janes


22. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson


23. The One from the Other: A Bernie Gunther Novel (Bernie Gunther Novels) by Philip Kerr


24. Warlock (New York Review Books Classics) by Oakley Hall


25. The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer


26. Spies of the Balkans: A Novel by Alan Furst


27. Mannequin (St-Cyr and Kohler) by J. Robert Janes


28. The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71 by Alistair Horne


29. Prisoners of the Mahdi (Norton Paperback) by Byron Farwell


30. The Friend of Madame Maigret (Inspector Maigret Mysteries) by Georges Simenon (also known as Madame Maigret's Own Case)


31. The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (New York Review Books Classics) by Georges Simenon


32. Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey


33. Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw


34. The King of Kahel by Tierno Monénembo


35. The complete short stories of Raffles-- the amateur cracksman / by Hornung, E. W.


36. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (Norton Paperback) by Nicholas Meyer


37. Pirates of the Levant (Captain Alatriste, Book 6) by Arturo Perez-Reverte


38. A Death in Vienna: A Novel (Mortalis) by Frank Tallis


39. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith


40. At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie


41. Dirty Snow (New York Review Books Classics) by Georges Simenon


42. A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by David Liss


43. Hypothermia: A Thriller (Detective Erlendur) by Arnaldur Indridason


44. Our Kind of Traitor: A Novel by John Le Carré


45. The Inimitable Jeeves (The Collector's Wodehouse) by P. G. Wodehouse


46. Law and Locomotives: The Impact of the Railroad in Wisconsin Law in the Nineteenth Century by Robert S. Hunt


47. Troubles (New York Review Books Classics) by J. G. Farrell


48. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon


49. Wisconsin's Past and Present: A Historical Atlas by Wisconsin Cartographers Guild
 
50.  The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine


51. Simplicissimus by Johann Grimmelshausen. A picaresque novel published in 1669 and inspired by the events and horrors of the Thirty Years' War.


52. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes and Edith Grossman  (1605 and 1615) by Cervantes. (see also Don Quixote) 



53. Bai Ganyo: Incredible Tales of a Modern Bulgarian by Aleko Konstantinov. "A comic classic of world literature, Aleko Konstantinov's 1895 novel Bai Ganyo follows the misadventures of [Bulgarian] rose-oil salesman Ganyo Balkanski ("Bai" is a Bulgarian title of intimate respect) as he travels in Europe." From UW Press description.


54. Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin (New York Review Books Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

55. The Forsyte Saga (Oxford World's Classics) by John Galsworthy