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Booklist 10/10/09 – 10/10/10 by Jay Barksdale, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, General Research Division October 4, 2010

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Reading Lady., Digital ID 1269936, New York Public Library

Gentle Reader,

Every so often I keep a yearly log of what I read.  Why?  'Cuz it's fun, mama, 'cuz it's fun.  Besides, it's no big deal—you read, I read, everyone we know reads.  So here it is.  The titles in bold are by the wonderful folks of the Research Study Rooms (Allen Room and Wertheim Study).  If you keep a list, I would enjoy seeing it posted here, as a reply.  If not, why not start and get in touch this time next year.  If the Fates allow, I'll be here.

John Holt – Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
Seth Grahame Smith – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Phyllis McGinley – Merry Christmas, Happy New Year
Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities
Ben H. Winters – Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
George Douglas Brown – The House with the Green Shutters
Barbara Pym – Excellent Women
Balzac – Cousin Pons
Cara De Silva – "In Memory’s Kitchen"
Greg Grandin – Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
Erich Maria Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front
Edward Eager – Half Magic [the first book I remember reading], Knight’s Castle, The Time Garden, Seven Day Magic, The Well Wishers, Magic or Not?, Magic by the Lake
Ann Darby – The Orphan Game
Mollie Panter-Downes – Good Evening Mrs. Craven: the Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
Suzanne Harper – The Juliet Club
Mark Adams – Mr. America: How Muscular Millionarie Bernarr Macfadden Transformed the Nation through Sex, Salad, and the Ultimate Starvation Diet
 Karen Weiser – To Light Out
 Joseph Kanon – The Good German
James Purdy – Children is All
Naomi Novik – Victory of Eagles
Jaron Lanier – You are Not a Gadget
Valentine Ackland – Country Conditions
Naomi Novik – Tongues of Serpents
Laurie Colwin – Home Cooking
Mario Puzo – The Godfather
Virginia Woolf – The Waves
 
stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner (who?), Alice Munro, Irène Némirovsky; some Coleridge poems; The Economist, Foreign Affairs, City Journal, TLS, NYRoB, aldaily.com
 
And the Barkies go to:
 
Best of Show – All Quiet on the Western Front
Happiest – The Juliet Club
Most challenging – The Waves
Comfort foodiest – all the Edward Eager
Happiest surprise – Merry Christmas, Happy New Year
Most Over the Top – The House with the Green Shutters (out-hardies Hardy)

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merry christmas?

Submitted by terri on October 5, 2010 at 8:16 AM.

Happiest surprise – Merry Christmas, Happy New Year ... who's the author?

Happies Surprise

Submitted by Jay on October 6, 2010 at 3:06 PM.

Phyllis McGinley. Do try to find it around the holidays. It's very New York and of its time. She was the Queen of Light Verse.

My (partial) list, FYE

Submitted by Andrea Lipinski on October 7, 2010 at 1:58 PM.

A yearly log sounds like a good idea in theory, but I'm not sure where I would keep it or what I would do with it afterwards. I remember the titles that I read to review for different sources (it helps that there's written evidence that I actually read them), but so many more books pass in and out of my head that I lose track. So here's the list of stuff I reviewed or otherwise documented this year:

FICTION
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R.L. LaFevers
I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern
Goth Girl Rising by Barry Lyga
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Black Stranger and Other American Tales by Robert E. Howard
The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
Silver by Steven Savile
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell
The Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
The Fate of Katherine Carr by Thomas H. Cook
The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker
Heresy: A Thriller by S.J. Parris

GRAPHIC NOVELS
Creepy Archives and Herbie Archives (Dark Horse Archives series)
Tyranny by Lesley Fairfield
Ghostopolis by Doug TenNapel
Lola: A Ghost Story by J. Torres
Hexed by Michael Alan Nelson
Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Resistance: Book 1 by Carla Jablonski
All-Action Classics No. 3: The Odyssey adapted by Tim Mucci
Arata: The Legend Vol. 1 by Yuu Watase
Rabbi Harvey vs. the Wisdom Kid by Steve Sheinkin
Revolver by Matt Kindt
Wicked Lovely: Desert Tales Vol. 2: Challenge by Melissa Marr
Maoh: Juvenile Remix Vol. 1 by Megumi Osuga
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz adapted by Eric Shanower
The first 6 books of the Oz series by L. Frank Baum
Saturn Apartments Vol. 1 by Hisae Iwaoka
I'll Give it My All ... Tomorrow by Shunji Aono
Sweet Tooth 1: Out of the Deep Woods by Jeff Lemire
Color Bleach +: The Bleach Official Bootleg by Tite Kubo
The Little Prince adapted by Joann Sfar
The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel adapted by Gareth Hinds

NONFICTION
Podcast Solutions: The Complete Guide to Audio and Video Podcasting by Geoghegan and Klass
The Marcheta Casati: Portraits of a Muse by Scot D. Ryersson
I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne
You Can Do a Graphic Novel by Barbara Slate
Stitches: A Memoir by Davis Small
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Memories of a Munchkin by Meinhardt Raabe
Me, the Mob, and the Music by Tommy James
Bet the House by Richard Roeper
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngrim
Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern

... then there's the stuff I reviewed for the Stuff For the Teen Age blog, and then there were a bunch more books that I read in my "free" time, but I never wrote those down anywhere.

Booklist

Submitted by Brian on October 7, 2010 at 2:09 PM.

I'll do you one better, I started using LibraryThing to keep track of the books I've read starting 1/1/2006 - http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bherner

Library Thing

Submitted by Jay on October 9, 2010 at 9:11 AM.

thank you. Very cool. I was glad to see To Kill a Mockingbird - one of my faves.

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