by Alison Janssen
I'm terrible at Best Of lists, or Favorites lists, or lists which necessitate my ranking things. (I get stressed out when assigining stars to my books at Good Reads, you guys.) So rather than creating an end-of-the-year-best-of-my-favorite-things list, I decided to make a list of the books I bought.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but here, in as complete a list as I'm currently capable:
Books That Got Me to Drop Cold, Hard Cash (Or Cold, Semi-Flimsy Plastic) in 2010
Key to the asterisks :*Book I bought as a Christmas gift (I told you not to read today's post yet, MOM); **ebook
Graceling, by Kristin Cashore* (2 copies)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation Volume One, by M.T. Anderson* (2)
The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness* (3)
The Ask and the Answer, by Patrick Ness
Monsters of Men, by Patrick Ness
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins
The Thousand, by Kevin Guilfoile* (3)
I'd Know You Anywhere, by Laura Lippman
The Passage, by Justin Cronin
Bad Luck and Trouble, by Lee Child [aside: this was my first Reacher book. OMG, so much fun]
Greywalker, by Kat Richardson
Peter and the Starcatchers, by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry
Leviathan, by Scott Westerfeld*
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdontes, by Stephen Sondheim*
The Thirteenth Child, by Patricia C. Wrede [aside: this author is possibly my most beloved. The Dragons books were HUGELY important to me as a kid -- I learned about feminism and good, funny fantasy writing]
City of Ember, by Jeanne Duprau
The People of Sparks, by Jeanne Duprau
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
Print the Legend, by Craig McDonald
Banished, by Sophie Littlefield
The Fourth Bear, by Jasper Fforde
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway [aside: this one I bought used]
Skating Around the Law, by Joelle Charbonneau
A Bad Day for Pretty, by Sophie Littlefield
Save the Cat, by Blake Snyder**
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print, by Renni Browne and Dave King**
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins** [this one was free, from Google Books]
By Hook or By Crook, edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg * **
Late Rain, by Lynn Kostoff * **
Innocent Monster, by Reed Farrel Coleman * **
Young Junius (special edition), by Seth Harwood
