Books I Read in 2010

Here are the books I read in 2010. I rated them with 1-5 stars. The book must be truly phenomenal to get 5 stars.

1. *Self’s Deception (Bernhard Schlink)
2. ***The Return of the Dancing Master (Henning Mankell)
3. *Tokyo Year Zero (David Peace)
4. *****Pop. 1280 (Jim Thompson)
5. *The Transgressors (Jim Thompson)
6. ****Dark of the Moon (John Sandford)
7. ***Heat Lightning (John Sandford)
8. ***Broken Prey (John Sandford)
9. ***Phantom Prey (John Sandford)
10. ***Mind’s Eye (Hakan Nesser)
11. ***The Return (Hakan Nesser)
12. ****North of Montana (April Smith)
13. ****Judas Horse (April Smith)
14. ***Moment of Truth in Iraq (Michael Yon)
15. ***The Bottom Billion (Paul Collier)
16. ***Fiasco (Thomas Ricks)
17. ***Tears in the Darkness (Michael Norman)
18. ***Helmet for My Pillow (Robert Leckie)
19. ***The War Within (Robert Woodward)
20. ****Joker One (Donovan Campbell)
21. ****The Pyramid (Henning Mankell)
22. ***Lost Echoes (Joe Lansdale)
23. ****Sunset and Sawdust (Joe Lansdale)
24. ****Stranger in Paradise (Robert Parker)
25. ***The Shadow Walker (Michael Walters)
26. *Seeking Whom He May Devour (Fred Vargas)
27. *Tropical Freeze (James W. Hall)
28. ***Eight Lives Down (Chris Hunter)
29. ****The Girl Who Played with Fire (Stieg Larsson)
30. *****The Galton Case (Ross MacDonald)
31. ***Black Money (Ross MacDonald)
32. ***Dirt (Stuart Woods)
33. ****Chasing Darkness (Robert Crais)
34. ***New York Dead (Stuart Woods)
35. ***Dead in the Water (Stuart Woods)
36. ***Swimming to Catalina (Stuart Woods)
37. ***Shella (Andrew Vachss)
38. ***The Getaway Man (Andrew Vachss)
39. ***Hard Candy (Andrew Vachss)
40. ****Rough Weather (Robert Parker)
41. ***Persuader (Lee Child)
42. **The Wounded and the Slain (David Goodis)
43. **Fade to Blonde (Max Phillips)
44. ***The Long Walk (Slavomir Rawicz)
45. *****The Winter of Frankie Machine (Don Winslow)
46. *Run for Your Life (James Patterson)
47. ****Brimstone (Robert Parker)
48. *****The Long Goodbye (Raymond Chandler)
49. ****Flood (Andrew Vachss)
50. ***The Lake of Darkness (Ruth Rendell)
51. ****Strega (Andrew Vachss)
52. ****Blue Belle (Andrew Vachss)
53. ***Blossom (Andrew Vachss)
54. ***Dead Street (Mickey Spillane)
55. ****Where Men Win Glory (Jon Krakauer)
56. ****Generation Kill (Evan Wright)
57. ***The Grifters (Jim Thompson)
58. **Passport to Peril (Robert Parker)
59. *****The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
60. ****Payback (Richard Stark)
61. ****War (Sebastian Junger)
62. *The Strain (Guillermo Del Toro/Chuck Hogan)
63. **The Cutie (Donald Westlake)
64. ***Worst Fears Realized (Stuart Woods)
65. ***LA Dead (Stuart Woods)
66. ***Dexter by Design (Jeff Lindsey)
67. ***The Enemy (Lee Child)
68. ****The Bricklayer (Noah Boyd)
69. *Cross Country (James Patterson)
70. ***Sacrifice (Andrew Vachss)
71. ***Down in the Zero (Andrew Vachss)
72. ****Safehouse (Andrew Vachss)
73. ***The Dawn Patrol (Don Winslow)
74. **Cirque de Freak (Darren Shan)
75. **Eighth Grade Bites (Heather Brewer)
76. **13 Bullets (David Wellington)
77. ***The Two Bear Mambo (Joe Lansdale)
78. **Playback (Raymond Chandler)
79. **The Moving Target (Ross MacDonald)
80. ***The Fabulous Clipjoint (Frederic Brown)