Books Read in 2010

Total: 116

1. Madame Brussels: This Moral Pandemonium by L.M. Robinson
2. Wetlands by Charlotte Roche (translated by Tim Mohr)
3. Paint a Vulgar Picture: Fiction Inspired by the Smiths edited by Peter Wild
4. E.W. Cole: Chasing the Rainbow by Lisa Lang
5. The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
6. The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
7. Princesses and Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity by Emily Maguire
8. Radical Melbourne: A Secret History by Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow
9. The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates
10. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
11. Our Girls: Aussie Pin-Ups of the 40s and 50s by Madeleine Hamilton
12. Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone!: The Romantic Movement, Rock & Roll, and the End of Civilisation as We Know It by Craig Schuftan
13. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis [reread]
14. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
15. You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Ziegesar
16. Blood Roses by Francesca Lia Block
17. Love Machine by Clinton Caward
18. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
19. Illumination & Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Carson McCullers (edited by Carlos Dews)
20. Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
21. For Esmé With Love and Squalor and Other Stories by J.D. Salinger
22. The Spare Room by Helen Garner
23. The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian
24. Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas
25. The Temple-Goers by Aatish Taseer
26. Looking for Alaska by John Green
27. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
28. Hoax Nation: Australian Fakes and Frauds from Plato to Norma Khouri by Simon Caterson
29. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
30. The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
31. Paper Towns by John Green
32. Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
33. Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
34. Ironweed by William Kennedy
35. Pop: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance L. Hays
36. Generation X by Douglas Coupland [reread]
37. The Dream Life of Balso Snell by Nathanael West
38. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
39. Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James
40. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
41. Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett
42. Hollywood Ending by Kathy Charles
43. A Cool Million by Nathanael West
44. Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
45. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
46. Columbine by Dave Cullen
47. The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
48. Not to Disturb by Muriel Spark
49. Sixteen Shades of Crazy by Rachel Trezise
50. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
51. In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl by Rachel Trezise
52. The Radleys by Matt Haig
53. The Sopranos by Alan Warner
54. Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
55. Sweet Sorrow: A Beginner’s Guide to Death by Mark Wakely
56. Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard
57. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
58. Soldiers’ Pay by William Faulkner
59. The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
60. Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker in Training by Tom Jokinen
61. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume One byAlan Moore & Kevin O’Neill
62. The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace
63. Transmetropolitan: Volume One, Back on the Street by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
64. Transmetropolitan: Volume Two, Lust for Life by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
65. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume Two by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill
66. Transmetropolitan: Volume Three, Year of the Bastard by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
67. The Vinyl Underground: Volume One, Watching the Detectives by Si Spencer, Simon Gane and Cameron Stewart
68. Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard
69. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
70. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
71. Closer by Dennis Cooper
72. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
73. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1910 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
74. Watchmen and Philosophy: A Rorschach Test edited by Mark D. White
75. Frisk by Dennis Cooper [reread]
76. Everything: A Book About Manic Street Preachers by Simon Price
77. Exchange by Paul Magrs
78. Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
79. Books Do Furnish a Room by Leslie Geddes-Brown
80. A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: Words We Pinched From Other Languages by Chloe Rhodes
81. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
82. How to Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
83. As Easy As Pi: Stuff About Numbers That Isn’t (Just) Maths by Jamie Buchan
84. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx with Neil Strauss
85. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
86. My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be ‘Me’?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English by Caroline Taggart and J.A. Wines
87. All I Want Is Everything (Gossip Girl #3) by Cecily von Ziegesar
88. Transmetropolitan: Volume Four, the New Scum by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
89. Transmetropolitan: Volume Five, Lonely City by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
90. How It Feels by Brendan Cowell
91. The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight
92. The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner
93. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
94. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman
95. The Alcoholic by Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel
96. Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg
97. Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America by Natasha Vargas-Cooper
98. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
99. Transmetropolitan: Volume Six, Gouge Away by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
100. Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria and Warren Pleece
101. The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich
102. The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
103. The Exterminators: Volume One, Bug Brothers by Simon Oliver and Tony Moore
104. The Exterminators: Volume Two, Insurgency by Simon Oliver, Tony Moore, Ande Parks and Chris Samnee
105. Transmetropolitan: Volume Seven, Spider’s Thrash by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
106. The Exterminators: Volume Three, Lies of Our Fathers by Simon Oliver, Tony Moore, Mike Hawthorne and John Lucas
107. The Exterminators: Volume Four, Crossfire and Collateral by Simon Oliver, Ty Templeton, Darick Robertson and John Lucas
108. Melbourne Remade: The Inner City Since the 70s by Seamus O’Hanlon
109. The Exterminators: Volume Five, Bug Brothers Forever by Simon Oliver, Tony Moore, John Lucas and Ty Templeton
110. Soundtrack: Short Stories 1989-1996 by Jessica Abel
111. Praise by Andrew McGahan
112. Fall Girl by Toni Jordan
113. The Best Australian Stories 2010 edited by Cate Kennedy
114. The Best Australian Poems 2010 edited by Robert Adamson
115. Transmetropolitan: Volume Eight, Dirge by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
116. The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt