Monday, January 04, 2010

Year in Books

Here's a list of the books I read this year. I think this is it, 43:

Cookbooks!
Lee Brothers Southern Cookbook-Matt & Ted Lee
Momofuku-David Chang
(Read both of these cover to cover. Highly recommended)
Culinaria Spain
Culinaria France
(Spent hours flipping through both of these, fascinating)

Non-Fiction:
Dead Sea Scrolls-DeSalvo
History of the World in 6 Glasses-Tom Standage
Tipping Point-Malcolm Gladwell
The World Without Us-Alan Wiesman
Omnivore's Dilemna-Michael Pollan
The Wisdom of Crowds-Surwieki
The Five Love Languages
Dateable
A Guitar and a Pen-Various essays
Misquoting Jesus-Bart Ehrman
Kinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette
Hemingway & Baileys Bartending Guide to Great American Writers
1,000 Wine Secrets
Heroes of the Negro Leagues
In Search of Small Gods-Jim Harrison (Poetry)
Just Before Dark-Jim Harrison (Collected Essays)
Oldman's Guide to Outsmarting Wine-Oldman

Fiction:
A Lesson Before Dying-William Gaines
Boy Who Ran to the Woods-Jim Harrison
Just Before Dark-Stephen King
Bone in the Throat-Anthony Bourdain
Beat the Reaper-Josh Bazell
World War Z-Max Brooks
Watchmen Graphic Novel-Moore & Gibbons
The Quiet American-Graham Greene
The Graveyard Book-Neil Gaiman

Biographies, Memoirs:
Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records-Mac & Laura
When I Grow Up-Juliana Hatfield
Need More Love-Aline Crumb
Off To The Side-Jim Harrison
Across the Great Divide: The Band in America-Barney Hoskyns
Wishful Drinking-Carrie Fisher
Bonfire of Roadmaps-Joe Ely
The Replacements-All Over But the Shouting
Goodbye Little Rock and Roller-Marshall Chapman
Louie Louie-Dave Marsh
True Adventures of the Rolling Stones-Stanley Booth
Cinderella Story-Bill Murray
How I Play Golf-Tiger Woods

Currently reading Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker. It's a big one 700 pages or more. I also have alot stacked up behind that.