Reading for 2010

Submitted by AmyD on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 20:54
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  1. "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (268 pgs)
  2. "The Light Fantastic" by Terry Pratchett (241 pgs)
  3. "Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die" by Michael Largo (496 pgs)
  4. "Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend" by Mark Collins Jenkins (256 pgs)
  5. "Aguirre: The Re-Creation of a Sixteenth-Century Journey Across South America" by Stephen Mintas (230 pgs)
  6. "I Am Ozzy" by Ozzy Osbourne and Chris Ayers (388 pgs)
  7. "Last Words" by George Carlin with Tony Hendra (294 pgs)
  8. "The Horror Film: An Introduction" by Rick Worland (278 pgs)
  9. "Little Billy's Letters: An Incorrigible Inner Child's Correspondence with the Famous, Infamous, and Just Plain Bewildered" by Bill Geerhart (256 pgs)
  10. "Under the Dome: by Stephen King (1074 pgs)
  11. "Physics of the Impossible" by Michio Kaku (303 pgs)
  12. "Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies: A Film Critic's Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made" by Michael Adams (306 pgs)
  13. "How Not to Act Old: 185 Ways to Pass for Phat, Sick, Hot, Dope, Awesome, or at Least Not Totally Lame" by Pamela Redmond Satran (220 pgs)
  14. "Monsters And Mad Scientists: A Cultural History Of The Horror Movie" Andrew Tudor (224 pgs)
  15. "Superfreakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (173 pgs)
  16. "Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 1)" by Dean Koontz and Kevin J Anderson (496 pgs)
  17. "Drood" by Dan Simmons (706 pgs)
  18. "Dress Your Family in Courderoy and Denim" by David Sedaris (272 pgs)
  19. "The Castle of Ontranto" by Horace Walpole (80 pgs)
  20. "Shit My Dad Says" by Justin Halpern (110 pgs)
  21. "How Did You Get This Number?" by Slone Crosby (178 pgs)
  22. "City of Night (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 2)" by Dean Koontz and Ed Gorman (465 pgs)
  23. "Dead and Alive(Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 3)" by Dean Koontz (384 pgs)
  24. "Song of Kali" by Dan Simmons (201 pgs)
  25. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown (568 pgs)
  26. "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang" by Chelsea Handler (147 pgs)
  27. "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" by Seth Grahame-Smith (304 pgs)
  28. "The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless" Richard Greene and K. Silem Mohammad (ed) (252 pgs)
  29. "Zombie Holocaust" by David Flint (224 pgs)
  30. "Nightmare Movies" by Kim Newman (215 pgs)
  31. "What Dreams May Come" by Richard Matheson (281 pgs)
  32. Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide" by Glenn Kay (332 pgs)
  33. "American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (And Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture" by Kyle William Bishop (208 pgs)
  34. "The Strain" by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan (608 pgs)
  35. "Uncanny Bodies: The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre" by Robert Spadoni (202 pgs)
  36. "Let Me In" by John Ajvide Lindqvist (496 pgs)
  37. "Horror (Routledge Film Guidebooks)" by Brigid Cherry (256 pgs)
Author Comments: 

Goal for the year: 10,000 pages

Total read as of 12/31: 11,992 pgs
Total read as of 12/25: 11,240 pgs
Total read as of 10/31: 9,934 pgs
Total read as of 10/7: 9,394 pgs
Total read as of 10/2: 9,113 pgs
Total read as of 9/20: 8,898 pgs
Total read as of 8/24: 8,118 pgs
Total read as of 8/5: 6,818 pgs
Total read as of 7/25: 6,353 pgs
Total read as of 7/14: 5,713 pgs
Total read as of 7/4: 5,007 pgs
Total read as of 5/31: 4,511 pgs
Total read as of 5/28: 4,338 pgs
Total read as of 5/25: 3,894 pgs
Total read as of 5/16: 3,588 pgs
Total read as of 4/21: 3,285 pgs
Total read as of 3/29: 2,211 pgs
Total read as of 3/26: 1,955 pgs
Total read as of 3/23: 1,677 pgs
Total read as of 3/14: 1,383 pgs
Total read as of 2/24: 765 pgs
Total read as of 2/15: 509 pgs