Number of Books Read: 55
Fiction to Non-fiction ratio: 51:4
Number of RABCKs & Trades received (Thanks to all you generous BookCrossers!): 12
Number of Bookrings & Rays Participated in: 0
Number of Bookrings & Rays Started: 0
Number of Books Released Into the Wild: 3
Number of Books Caught in the Wild: 0
Earliest Written: King John by Shakespeare (c. 1603)
Most Recently Published: The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada by Marci Mcdonald (May, 2010)
First Book Finished in 2010: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
Last Book Finished in 2010: Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor

Virtually travelled to:
Countries: 19 real, 3 fictional, plus several nautical voyages throughout the world, a submarine trip at the bottom of most of the major oceans and contiguous seas, a spelunking journey into the interior of the earth, as well as starship voyages to two alien planets, and visits to Heaven, Eden, and Hell
Provinces/Territories in Canada: 4
Centuries: 9 (from the 14th century to the 23rd century), plus the creation of the world in Christian myth, and a scientific journey from the real dawn of life approximately 4 billion years ago until the neolithic revolution approximately 10 000 years ago (with 41 stops along the way).

Canadian Challenge Books of 2010:
Antoinette de Mirecourt by Rosanna Leprohon
They Shall Inherit the Earth by Morley Callaghan
Armand Durand by Rosanna Leprohon
Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies
The Village of Viger by Duncan Campbell Scott
Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Man From Glengarry by Ralph Connor
Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor

Top Books of 2010:
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Paradise Lost by John Milton
H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O’Brian
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
The Armageddon Factor by Marci McDonald
The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

Other Books I Enjoyed in 2010:
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
Antoinette de Mirecourt by Rosanna Leprohon
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carré
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
A Pinch of Snuff by Reginald Hill
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Armand Durand by Rosanna Leprohon
Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies
The Village of Viger by Duncan Campbell Scott
The Man From Glengarry by Ralph Connor
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor

Worst Books of 2010:
This year, I didn’t have any books that, as a whole, I disliked. But several of my top picks and runners up had considerable portions that I did not enjoy. Preachiness and the evils of religion were to the forefront in Paradise Lost and Connor’s Glengarry books. Cruelty to animals outweighed the nice animal stories of Wild Animals I Have Known. Glad I read Scar Tissue for the insight it gave into Michael Ignatieff, but I generally can’t stand books about sickness and dying and this one wasn’t much different in that respect.

Complete List of Books Read in 2010:

1. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
2. Antoinette de Mirecourt by Rosanna Leprohon
3. The Austere Academy by Lemony Snickett
4. War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
5. The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket
6. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
7. Possession by A. S. Byatt
8. They Shall Inherit the Earth by Morley Callaghan
9. Candide by Voltaire
10. 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
11. Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
12. From the Depths by Victor Milan
13. O is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton
14. An April Shroud by Reginald Hill
15. Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
16. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
17. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
18. Bliss & Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
19. Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
20. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
21. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
22. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carré
23. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
24. The Winter Garden Mystery by Carola Dunn
25. Paradise Lost by John Milton
26. Requiem for A Mezzo by Carola Dunn
27. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
28. A Pinch of Snuff by Reginald Hill
29. Double Falsehood by William Shakespeare et al.
30. “P” is for Peril by Sue Grafton
31. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
32. H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O’Brian
33. All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
34. The Vile Village by Lemony Snickett
35. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
36. Armand Durand by Rosanna Leprohon
37. Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies
38. The Armageddon Factor by Marci McDonald
39. The Village of Viger by Duncan Campbell Scott
40. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
41. Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
42. Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
43. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
44. The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snickett
45. A Killing Kindness by Reginald Hill
46. The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins
47. King John by William Shakespeare
48. Firestorm by L. A. Graf
49. The Garden Party & Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
50. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
51. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
52. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
53. The Man From Glengarry by Ralph Connor
54. Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
55. Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor