1) Stephen King – Under the Dome – Jan
2) Paul Doherty – The Treason of the Ghosts – Jan
3) Michael Crichton – Pirate Latitudes – Jan
4) Paul Doherty – Corpse Candle – Jan
5) Charles Todd – A Cold Treachery – Feb
6) Victor Sebestyen – Revolution 1989 - Feb
7) Paul Doherty – The Magician’s Death – Feb
8) Charles Todd – A Long Shadow – Feb
9) Aimee & David Thurlo – Blackening Song – Feb
10) Charles Todd – A False Mirror – Mar
11) James O’Donnell – The Ruin of the Roman Empire – Mar
12) Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol – Mar
13) Charles Todd – A Pale Horse – Mar
14) Aimee & David Thurlo – Death Walker – Mar
15) Will Thomas – The Hellfire Conspiracy – Mar
16) Charles Todd – A Matter of Justice – Mar
17) Charles Todd – The Red Door – Mar
18) Tony Hillerman – The Great Taos Bank Robbery – Mar
19) Woody Holton – Abigail Adams – Apr
20) Douglas Preston – Impact – Apr
21) Aimee & David Thurlo – Bad Medicine – Apr
22) Patrick O’Brian – Post Captain – Apr
23) Travis Ayres – The Bomber Boys – Apr
24) Barbara Tuchman – The Guns of August – Apr
25) Joseph Kanon – Los Alamos – Apr
26) Sontag/Drew – Blind Man’s Bluff – Apr
27) Mark Stein – How The States Got Their Shapes – May
28) Joseph Kanon – The Prodigal Spy – May
29) Will Thomas – The Black Hand – May
30) Patrick O’Brian – HMS Surprise – May
31) Preston/Child – Fever Dream – May
32) Greg Grandin – Fordlandia – May
33) Lou Manfredo – Rizzo’s War – May
34) Paul Doherty – The Waxman Murders – Jun
35) Paul Doherty – The Spies of Sobeck – Jun
36) Robert Masello – Vigil – Jun
37) Michael Robertson – The Baker Street Letters – Jun
38) Dan Fesperman – Lie In The Dark – Jun
39) Dan Fesperman – The Small Boat of Great Sorrows – Jun
40) Charles Mann – 1491 – Jul
41) Eric Harry – Society of the Mind – Jul
42) Rick Reilly – Who’s Your Caddy? – Jul
43) Paul Doherty – The Mysterium – Jul
44) Justin Cronin – The Passage – Jul
45) Lee Miller – Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony – Aug
46) John Verdon - Think Of A Number – Aug
47) Paul Doherty – Nightshade – Aug
48) Keith Thomas – Once A Spy – Aug
49) Richard Snow – A Measureless Peril – Aug
50) Jason Turbow/Michael Duce – The Baseball Codes – Aug
51) John Connolly – The Whisperers – Aug
52) Ronald Kessler – In The President’s Secret Service – Aug
53) Charles Brokaw – The Atlantis Code – Aug
54) Bruce Henderson – Hero Found – Sept
55) Paul Doherty – The Templar – Sept
56) Seth Grahame-Smith – Abraham Lincoln – Vampire Hunter – Sept
57) William Trotter – A Frozen Hell – The Russo-Finnish Winter War of
1939-1940 – Sept
58) Patrick O’Brian – The Mauritius Command – Sept
59) Aimee’ and David Turlo – Enemy Way - Sept
60) Scott Siegler – Infected – Sept
61) William R Trotter – The Sands of Pride – Oct
62) Joseph Kanon – The Good German – Oct
63) Patrick O’Brian – Desolation Island – Oct
64) Diana Preston – Lusitania – Oct
65) Hew Strachan – The First World War – Oct
66) Steven Saylor – Empire – Nov
67) Richard Hough – Man O’War – Nov
68) Steve Berry – The Paris Vendetta – Nov
69) Paul Nagel – Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the Adams Family –
Nov
70) David Stone – The Echelon Vendetta – Nov
71) John Lawton – A Lily Of The Field – Dec
72) William Trotter – The Fires of Pride – Dec
73) Brian Haig – Secret Sanction – Dec
74) David Stone – The Orpheus Deception - Dec
75) David Stone – The Venetian Judgment – Dec
76) Daniel Silva – The Rembrandt Affair – Dec
77) Martin Cruz Smith – Three Stations - Dec
X) Henry Kissinger – The White House Years, Volume 1 – left off @ page 573
So the total of 77+ (including Kissinger) is a little less than my record of 82 read in 2009, but starting off with a 1,000 page tome from Stephen King is going to hamstring you from the start... And I spent a lot of time plowing through Kissinger's book, which is only volume 1 of 3 1,000+ page volumes - and very tough reading. Interesting, mostly, but tough. I mean how many ways can Kissinger praise himself?? Very many, apparently.....
Found a couple new authors, too. Aimee and David Thurlo have a series that take place on the Navajo Reservation, with a female investigator on the Navajo Tribal police - very Hillerman-like (although Hillerman-lite would be a better description). Still, they are entertaining, as I do have a strong interest in the area. Joseph Kanon is another good author, writing mysteries in famous places/eras with lots of historical figures that make it fun. And David Stone writes similarly to Daniel Silva, who I like.
I also read some good non-fiction items, several of which I had been looking to read for a while. Paul Nagel's 'Descent from Glory' is about the four generations of the Adams family starting with john, and how they basically drove themselves away from the greatness of the John/John Quincy generation with character traits that really started with John. Fascinating stuff, and a little sad. Also read quite a bit of war-related stuff, both ancient and more contemporary, including the classic 'The Guns of August' by Barbara Tuchman. A fun non-fiction selection was 'How The States Got Their Shapes' by Mark Stein.
For 2011, I am thinking that I would really like to re-read all of Hillerman's Navajo Tribal Police books, as they are so evocative of that region and culture - and darn good mysteries as well. Also looking forward to the newest Ian Rutledge books from Charles Todd, which was due out in January (hasn't arrived at the library yet). I'm thinking I will get through at least 75 books - need to also pick a theme for my non-fiction reading. So a fun year is ahead, reading wise!
