For what it is worth (and I find it is always interesting to see what's on people's bookshelves, even electronic shelves) here's the list I kept of books read in 2010. Usually I noted the date of publication, but sometimes I was too lazy to look it up so the dates aren't entirely accurate. Make of the list what you will. Maybe I will talk about some of these books on future blogs.

1. A Dreamer's Tales -- Lord Dunsany (1910)
2. The Deep Blue Good-By -- John D. MacDonald (1964)
3. The Three Imposters -- Arthur Machen (1895)
4. Cannery Row -- John Steinbeck (1945)
5. Trent's Last Case -- E.C. Bentley (1913)
6. The Big Time -- Fritz Leiber (1957)
7. Chronicle of a Death Foretold -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1982)
8. Mrs. McGinty's Dead -- Agatha Christie (1952)
9. The Alchemist -- Paulo Coelho (1982)
10. Weird Tales From Northern Seas -- Jonas Lie (1893)
11. A Murder is Announced -- Agatha Christie (1951)
12. A People's History of the United States -- Howard Zinn (1999)
13. The Bowstring Murders -- John Dickson Carr (1933)
14. Simulacra and Simulation -- Jean Baudrillard (1981)
15. The Garden of Forking Paths -- Jorge Luis Borges (1941)
16. Gateway --Frederick Pohl (1977)
17. Noah's Compass -- Ann Tyler (2010)
18. The Illiad-- Homer, trans. Ian Johnston (8th century BC)
19. The Centaur -- John Updike (1963)
20. The Oresteia -- Aeschylus, trans. Ian Johnston (458 BC)
21. The Private Life of Helen of Troy -- John Erskine (1926)
22. Illium -- Dan Simmons (2004)
23. Works and Days/The Theogony -- Hesiod, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (8th century BC)
24. The Lightning Thief -- Rick Riordan
25. Ajax -- Sophocles trans. Ian Johnston (440? BC)
26. Anacreon in English trans Thomas James Arnold (500 BC)
27. Poems of Sappho trans. Edward Storer (7th sentury BC)
28. Trojan Women -- By Euripedes trans G. Theodoridis (415 BC)
29. Thesmophoriazusae -- Aristophanes trans. G. Theodorides ( 411 BC)
30. Breathing Lessons -- Ann Tyler (1989)
31. A Key to the Suite -- John D. MacDonald (1962)
32. Shoot the Piano Player -- David Goodis (1956)
33. Alexandria -- Lindsey Davis (2009)
34. Super -- Jim Lehrer (2010)
35. Year of the Hyenas -- Brad Geagley (2005)
36. My Gun Is Quick -- Mickey Spillane (1951)
37. Wickedness -- Mary Midgley (1984)
38. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity -- Averil Cameron (1992)
39. Law and Empire in Late Antiquity -- Jill Harries (2004)
40. A Social History of Byzantium -- John Haldon ed. (2009)
41. John Lydus and the Roman Past -- Michael Maas (1992)
42. The Accidental Tourist -- Anne Tyler (1989)
43. Rogue Moon -- Algis Budrys (1960)
44. The Perfect Murder -- Peter James (2010)
45. The Lucifer Code -- Charles Brokaw (2010)
46. The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud -- Julia Navarro (2006)
47. The Intelligencer -- Leslie Silber (2003)
48. The Secret History -- Procopius (550)
49. I Is For Innocent -- Sue Grafton (1992)
50. Death is Now My Neighbor -- Colin Dexter (1996)
51. Self's Murder -- Bernhard Schlink (2001)
52. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant -- Ann Tyler (1082)
53. Never Go Back -- Robert Goddard (2005)
54. The Third Man -- Graham Greene (1949)
55. The Information Officer -- Mark Mills (2010)
56. Nightmare in Pink -- John D. MacDonald (1964)
57. Sins of the Fathers -- Lawrence Block (1976)
58. The Big Sleep -- Raymond Chandler (1939)
59. Slaughterhouse Five -- Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
60. Cat's Cradle -- Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
61. Red Harvest -- Dashiell Hammett (1929)
62. Noir -- Robert Coover (2010)
63. Memories of My Melancholy Whores --Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2004)
64. Third Girl -- Agatha Christie (1964)
65. The Screaming Mimi -- Fredric Brown (1956)
66. The Giver -- Lois Lowry (1993)
67. Wilderness Tips -- Margaret Atwood
68. Who Killed Palomino Molero -- Mario Vargas Llosa (1989)
69. Amulet -- Roberto Bolano (1999)
70. Jealousy -- Alain Robbe-Grillet (1957)
71. The High Priest of California -- Charles Willeford (1957)
72. Gathering Blue -- Lois Lowry (2000)
73. Messenger -- Lois Lowry (2004)
74. The Taking -- Dean R, Koontz (2005)
75. Invasion -- Aaron Wolfe (Dean Koontz) (1975)
76. The White Mountains -- John Christopher
77. The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop. --Robert Coover (1968)
78. De Bello Lemures, or the Roman War Against the Zombies of Armorica --Thomas Brookside (2009)
79. A Patchwork Planet -- Anne Tyler (1998)
80. Silent Barrier -- Louis Tracy (1908)
81. The Mysterious Affair at Styles -- Agatha Christie (1920)
82. The Circular Study -- Anna Katherine Green (1900)
83. The Daffodil Mystery -- Edgar Wallace (1920)
84. The Unicorn Murders -- Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) (1935)