Thursday, January 02, 2020

End of the Decade Reading List

Just realized it's not only the end of another year in reading, it's the ending of a whole decade.
Well, here are my reads from 2010-2019.
I've decided to omit from this list any comic books, graded readers and re-reads.  But the full list can be found HERE.

2.  Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice January 8, 2010
3.  The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson February 19, 2010
4.  Three Empires on the Nile by Dominic Green March 10, 2010
6.  Down Under by Bill Bryson March 24, 2010
7.  Kim by Rudyard Kipling April 7,  2010
9.  Flashman by George Macdonald Fraser May 2, 2010
11.  The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope July 12, 2010
13.  Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes August 3, 2010
15.  The Butterfly in Amber by Kate Forsyth September 29, 2010
17.  Turn Right at Istanbul by Tony Wright [Abridged] January 23, 2011
19.  The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg (Abridged) January 27, 2011
21.  Flashman’s Lady by George MacDonald Fraser February 2, 2011
22.  Free-Born John by Pauline Gregg March 17, 2011
23.  Flashman and the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser March 29, 2011
25.  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll April 21, 2011
27.  Flashman and the Dragon by George MacDonald Fraser June 12, 2011
29.  To Kill a Tsar by Andrew Williams July 11, 2011
31.  The Game by Neil Strauss October 27, 2011
33.  The French Presence in Cochinchina and Cambodia by Milton E. Osborne November 10, 2011
35.  Flashman on the March by George MacDonald Fraser March 2, 2012
37.  The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng April 10, 2012
39.  Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson June 13, 2012
41.  The Magicians by Lev Grossman September 26, 2012
43.  Flashman and the Angel of the Lord by George MacDonald Fraser December 18, 2012
44.  The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton January 1, 2013
45.  The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by Robin Lane Fox January 27, 2013
47.  The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine February 16, 2013
49.  Learning Teaching by Jim Scrivener [Second Edition] March 2, 2013
51.  Understanding Second Language Acquisition by Lourdes Ortega May 1, 2013
53.  Procrastination by Jane B. Burka, PhD and Lenora M. Yuen, PhD [25th Anniversary Edition] June 5, 2013
55.  Jesus, Interrupted by Bart D. Ehrman June 24, 2013
57.  From Reader to Reading Teacher by Jo Ann Aebersold and Mary Lee Field August 11, 2013
59.  Flashman and the Mountain of Light by George MacDonald Fraser August 16, 2013
60.  Mr American by George MacDonald Fraser September 11, 2013
61.  SLA Research and Language Teaching by Rod Ellis October 13, 2013
63.  The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Revisited) November 8, 2013
64.  Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas November 10, 2013
65.  Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing by I.S.P. Nation November 13, 2013
66.  Destination Cambodia by Walter Mason November 21, 2013
67.  At War With Asia by Noam Chomsky December 3, 2013
68.  Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore December 11, 2013
69.  Second Language Learning Theories by Rosamond Mitchell and Florence Myles [Second Edition] January 7, 2014
70.  The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas January 17, 2014
71.  The English Verb by Michael Lewis February 10, 2014
72.  Black Ajax by George MacDonald Fraser February 14, 2014
73.  The Decline and Fall of the British Empire: 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon March 5, 2014
74.  An Introduction to Language by Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Peter Collins, and David Blair [Third Edition] March 19, 2014
76.  Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas March 27, 2014
78.  Beyond the Sentence by Scott Thornbury April 8, 2014
81.  Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching by Diane Larsen-Freeman [Second Edition] May 22, 2014
83.  The Language Teaching Matrix by Jack C. Richards July 3, 2014
85.  Podkayne of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein July 31, 2014
86.  The Time Machine by H.G. Wells August 2, 2014
87.  The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel August 22, 2014
89.  The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth September 7, 2014
91.  Kidnapped and Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson September 24, 2014
92.  George Orwell: Essays September 26, 2014
93.  Conspirata by Robert Harris September 29, 2014
94.  The Quiet American by Graham Greene October 1, 2014
95.  The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells October 7, 2014
96.  Cambodia’s Curse by Joel Brinkley October 16, 2014
97.  Hothouse by Brian Aldiss October 20, 2014
99.  Burmese Days by George Orwell October 27, 2014
101.  The Malayan Trilogy by Anthony Burgess October 30, 2014
102.  An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris November 18, 2014
103.  Rubicon by Tom Holland November 19, 2014
105.  A World On Fire by Amanda Foreman November 25, 2014
106.  The Way of the Kings by Andre Malraux December 1, 2014
107.  Alexander: Child of a Dream by Valerio Massimo Manfredi (Alexander Trilogy Book 1) December 4, 2014
108.  The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay December 12, 2014
109.  The Bible Tells Me So by Peter Enns December 26, 2014
110.  Anno Dracula by Kim Newman January 3, 2015
111. Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman January 20, 2015
112. Anno Dracula 1918: The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman January 22, 2015
113. Alexander: The Sands of Ammon by Valerio Massimo Manfredi,February 9, 2015
114. The Natural Approach by Stephen D. Krashen and Tracy D. Terrell, March 5, 2015
115. Alexander: The Ends of the Earth by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, March 6. 2015
116. About Language by Scott Thornbury, March 7, 2015
117. The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow March 17, 2015
118. Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault March 28, 2015
119. Grammar for English Language Teachers by Martin Parrott, April 2, 2015
120. The Persian Boy by Mary Renault April 30, 2015
121. Funeral Games by Mary Renault May 13, 2015
122. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain June 23, 2015
123. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, August 10, 2015
124. Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain, November 13, 2015
125. Tom Sawyer Detective by Mark Twain November 20, 2015
126. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas February 3, 2016
127. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 2 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, April 7, 2016
128. An Arsene Lupin Omnibus by Maurice Leblanc, May 28, 2016
129. Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke, August 23, 2016
130. I Drink for a Reason by David Cross, August 31, 2016
131. The Lexical Approach by Michael Lewis, December 9, 2016
132. Rules, Patterns and Words by Dave Willis, February 8, 2017
133. The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky, February 28, 2017
134. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell , March 16, 2017
135. Dictator by Robert Harris, March 29, 2017
136. The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe, April 1, 2017
137. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (10th Anniversary edition--Author's Preferred Text), April 16, 2017
138. Did Jesus Exist? by Bart D. Ehrman April 27, 2017
139. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster,  May 9, 2017
140. Second Language Acquisition by Rod Ellis, May 11, 2017
141. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence , June 1, 2017
142. The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer , June 20, 2017
143. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, July 8, 2017
144. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Jule 26, 2017
145. The Intellectuals and the Masses by John Carey, Jule 31, 2017
146. The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks ,August 14, 2017
147. Implementing the Lexical Approach by Michael Lewis, August 30, 2017
148. Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz, September 7, 2017
149. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner , September 19, 2017
150. Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers by Michael McCarthy, September 27, 2017
151. Beloved by Toni Morrison, October 16, 2017
152. Uncovering Grammar by Scott Thornbury, November 8, 2017
153. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, November 16, 2017
154. Teaching English as an International Language by Sandra Lee McKay, November 18, 2017
155. The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie, November 29, 2017
156. Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition by Stephen D Krashen, December 12, 2017
157. Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse, December 14, 2017
158. Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching by Diane Larsen-Freeman [Second Edition]--Revisited January 4, 2018
159. The Civil Wars by Appian of Alexandria March 5, 2018
160. The Language Myth by Vyvyan Evans, March 14, 2018
161. A Framework for Task-Based Learning by Jane Willis , May 27, 2018
162. Speaking by Martin Bygate,  July 2, 2018
163. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury , July 11, 2018
164. Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz , July 20, 2018
165. The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer, September 5, 2018
166. Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz, September 18, 2018
167. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, October 8, 2018
168. Teaching Unplugged by Luke Meddings and Scott Thornbury, October 9, 2018
169. An A-Z of ELT by Scott Thornbury (First Edition), October 18, 2018
170. English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course by Peter Roach [Fourth Edition], October 20, 2018
171. The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb, December 1, 2018
172. The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit, December 18, 2018
173. Coming Up for Air by George Orwell December 20, 2018
174. Claudius the God by Robert Graves , January 2, 2019
175. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, January 14, 2019
176. Teaching Young Language Learners by Annamaria Pinter, February 6, 2019
177. Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie, February 7, 2019
178. Sweden by Matthew Turner, September 28, 2019
179. Syllabus Design by David Nunan, November 5, 2019

Notes:
* I'm not going to choose bests and worsts.  I - didthat - already for my 10 years of book reviewing anniversary, and I'm worried the list would have too much overlap.

* Wow, time flies as you get older, huh?  Many of those books from 2010 I feel like were just recently read. 10 years already?  Like those Flashman books for instance.  I feel like this is something I only just recently discovered, but I started reading them back in 2010.

* Some good reading years and some bad reading years in this list, but it averages out to about a book and a half per month.  Which is about right.  I've always been a slow reader, so a book a month is pretty much my average.

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