I read 63 books in 2010, the most of any year I’ve been keeping track. And I’m pleased with the quality of the books, especially the non-fiction.
Non-fiction highlights were: Hegemony or Survival Noam Chomsky, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Christopher Hitchens, the five Plato dialogues, The Narrow Road to Oku Matsuo Bashō, Bhagavad Gita translated by Stephen Mitchell, and Marx’s General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels Tristram Hunt.
Fiction highlights were: Sleepless Charlie Huston, Bad Things Happen Harry Dolan, Rosa Jonathan Rabb, The Farmer’s Daughter Jim Harrison, Bite Me, A Love Story Christopher Moore, Road Dogs Elmore Leonard, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell. It was a very good year.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell
Another brilliant and moving Mitchell novel, this time about the years Jacob de Zoet spends in Japan at the turn of the 19th century. Stories within stories within stories. Enjoyed it very much. Great way to end a great year of reading.
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