Nathaniel’s Comments (group member since Jul 04, 2010)

Nathaniel’s comments from the Challenge: 50 Books group.

It’s been my goal for several years. In 2010 I finally did it! My reading tastes are so random that I can’t pick all the books at the beginning of the year. So here is my list of 50 books for 2010 (in order by date read.) A * indicates an audio book. (I have a desk job)

01) The Passion – Jeanette Winterson (01/03/10)
02) Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) – Stephenie Meyer (01/09/10)*
03) Call for the Dead – John le Carré (01/14/10)*
04) Arrow of God – Cinua Achebe (01/16/10)
05) The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon #1) – Daniel Silva (01/31/10)
06) Insight Guide Venice Step by Step – Insight Guides (02/02/10)
07) The Book of the Dun Cow – Walter Wangerin Jr. (02/05/10)*
08) And Another Thing… (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #6) – Eoin Colfer (02/17/10)*
09) The Emperor of Ocean Park – Stephen L. Carter (02/23/10)
10) AAA Spiral Rome, 6th Edition – Tim Jepson (02/27/10)
11) The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1) – Michael Connelly (03/03/10)*
12) Shadow Divers – Robert Kurson (03/18/10)*
13) Wodehouse: A Life – Robert McCrum (03/21/10)
14) The Scarecrow (Jack McEvoy, #2) – Michael Connelly (04/06/10)*
15) A Shadow in Summer (Long Price Quartet, #1) – Daniel Abraham (04/11/10)
16) The Course of Human Events – David McCullough (04/16/10)*
17) The Places In Between – Rory Stewart (04/16/10)*
18) Hominids (Neaderthal Parallax, #1) – Robert J. Sawyer (04/28/10)*
19) Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitues And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Live Insurance – Steven D. Levitt (05/24/10)*
20) The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins (05/29/10)
21) The Highest Tide – Jim Lynch (06/01/10)*
22) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) – Stieg Larsson (06/05/10)
23) True North: A Novel – Jim Harrison (06/16/10)*
24) The News from Paraguay: A Novel – Lily Tuck (06/19/10)
25) George Washington, Vol. I – Henry Cabot Lodge (07/09/10)
26) The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home – Dan Ariely (07/14/10)*
27) George Washington, Vol. II – Henry Cabot Lodge (07/18/10)
28) Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time – Dava Sobel (07/25/10)
29) The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief – Francis S. Collins (07/26/10)*
30) A Murder of Quality – John le Carré (07/30/10)*
31) The Girl Who Played with Fire – Stieg Larsson (08/04/10)
32) Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe (08/26/10)*
33) American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century – Kevin Phillips (09/01/10)
34) The Magicians – Lev Grossman (09/18/10)
35) Arthur & George – Julian Barnes (10/04/10)*
36) Venice from the Ground Up – James H. McGregor (10/13/10)
37) How the States Got Their Shapes – Mark Stein (10/17/10)
38) The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts – Burke Davis (10/25/10)
39) Address in commemoration of the inauguration of George Washington as the first president of the United States – Melville Weston Fuller (10/26/10)
40) Young Stalin – Simon Sebag Montefiore (10/30/10)*
41) Humans (Neanderthal Parallax, #2) – Robert J. Sawyer (11/08/10)*
42) Muzzled: Rom T-Ball to Terrorism-True Stories That Should Be Fiction – Michael A. Smerconish (11/09/10)
43) The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella – Stephenie Meyer (11/10/10)*
44) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson (11/22/10)
45) Echo (Alex Benedict, #5) – Jack McDevitt (11/24/10)
46) The Road – Cormac McCarthy (12/02/10)
47) Hybrids (Neanderthal Parallaz, #3) – Robert J. Sawer (12/06/10)*
48) No Longer at Ease – Chinua Achebe (12/12/10)*
49) Purgatorio – Dante Alighieri (12/20/10)*
50) The Divine Comedy: Paradise – Dante Alighieri (12/28/10) *

Anyone read the same books in 2010?