Some Reading Recommendations from 2010

As I did last year around this time, I figure I'll post a list of some books I read over the past twelve months that y'all might enjoy. These are not the only books I read in 2010 -- they're just the ones that, for whatever reason, really jumped out at me. There are no children's books, of course (see here for why), but the list does include some smart thrillers, a great graphic novel, some thought-provoking non-fiction, a book about math (oh, just read it!), and more. There's something for just about everyone.

If you try any of them, I'm sure you'll enjoy the time spent.

• In Defense of Elitism by William A. Henry III
• My Life Among the Serial Killers by Helen Morrison and Harold Goldberg
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
• Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday
  
• The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski
• Paranoia by Joe Finder
• Inside Out by Barry Eisler
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• The Unfinished Game by Keith Devlin
• Talk Show by Dick Cavett

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Recommended Reading
By: Tucks on Tue January 04, 2011, 12:44:18

Oscar Wao was actually a summer reading book for me two years ago. It was surprisingly fantastic. And probably inappropriate for a class of high school juniors.

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Re: Some Reading Recommendations from 2010
By: Jon on Sun January 09, 2011, 13:06:58

I need to read #1 immediately. The title alone intrigues me.

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Re: Some Reading Recommendations from 2010
By: Barry on Sun January 09, 2011, 14:10:50

@Jon: It's...provocative, to say the least.

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Rekindled my hope in novels
By: Regan C. on Thu September 15, 2011, 11:26:56

I live overseas, so our book store only gets the most famous mainstream books. All of the popular teen novels that have come out lately have greatly disappointed me, and I find some of them insulting to our intellegence. So I pretty much dove into comics, graphic novels, and manga in hopes that this phase would fizzle out soon enough and books would be good again. But some of these seem interesting, so I'll try to check them out. I'm excited to read them. (Also, manga is expensive -.-'')