The Books I Read in 2010

My five favourites (in no order)


Princess Tarakanova by Grigory Danilevsky.


An Evening with Claire by Gaito Gazdanov, which gets a special bonus prize for having a title that contains multiple Eric Rohmer movies.


Every Riven Thing by Christian Wiman.


Inside the Stalin Archives by Jonathan Brent.


Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang.

Percentage Breakdown by Country

British 49.7%
American 15.8%
Russian 14.1%
German 2.8%
French 2.3%
Japanese 2.3%
Czech 1.7%
Indian 1.7%
Irish 1.7%
Spanish 1.7%
Colombian 1.1%
Slovenian 1.1%
Albanian 0.6%
Canadian 0.6%
Icelandic 0.6%
Italian 0.6%
Lithuanian 0.6%
Swedish 0.6%
Trinidadian 0.6%

Which adds up to 100.2%, but you know what I mean.

Percentage Breakdown by Genre

Novel, Literary 31.6%
Novel, Genre 27.1%
Poetry 8.5%
Collections of Short Stories 7.3%
Criticism 6.2%
Memoirs 5.6%
Travel 4.5%
Essay 4.0%
Drama 1.7%
Anthropology 1.2%
Biography 0.6%
Novel, Graphic 0.6%
Books about Design 0.6%
History 0.6%

Which adds up to 100.1%, but again, you know what I mean.