With the new year upon us I've been looking at our online presence and realize..geez, what a slacker! I admit that I have been totally neglectful of the blog that I started for Chapters and when I went to post a new one and I had to go to myspace to access, well, it was then that it truly hit..gotta start fresh! So here goes..HAPPY NEW YEAR! NEW BLOG! Pretty much I plan to share what we are doing at Chapters for events, what interactions we have with authors and publishers and what we and our customers are reading and what they think. We have a wonderful following of loyal customers who love reading as much as we do and you may even see some blog posts from them too. There's a couple book blogs which we love and we get great book recommendations from that I will share with you as well as fun facts and info about books we know and love and new ones that are on deck. I want to hear from you so pretty please comment and interact with me as it will keep it (and me) going and may prompt new blog posts and/or interesting and of course, friendly banter. :) Anything you want to see on here, let me know! We are always open to our readers.
For this post I wanted to start by sharing the top 25 books of 2010 according to our distributor - Do you agree? Are you surprised at what did or didn't make the top 25? How many have you read? or maybe will you now pick up one of these titles and give it a shot? Here goes...and in order:
1. Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, By: Mark Twain - pub. University of California Press
2. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, By: Stieg Larsson - pub. Knopf Publishing Group
3. Life, By: Keith Richards - pub. Little Brown & Company
4. Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3), By: Suzanne Collins - pub. Scholastic Press
5. House Rules, By: Jodi Picoult - pub. Washington Square Press
6. The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus #1), By: Rick Riordan - pub. Rick Riordan
7. Decision Points, By: George W. Bush - pub. Crown Publishing Group
8. Cleopatra: A Life, By: Stacy Schiff - pub. Little Brown and Company
9. Obama's Wars, By: Bob Woodward - pub. Simon and Schuster
10. Freedom, By: Jonathan Franzen - pub. Farrar Straus Giroux
11. The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Whimpy Kid #5), By: Jeff Kinney - pub. Amulet Books
12. Full Dark, No Stars, By: Stephen King - pub. Scribner Book Company
13. Spoken from the Heart, By: Laura Bush - pub. Scribner Book Company
14. Little Bee, By: Chris Cleave - pub. Simon and Schuster
15. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, By: Laura Hillenbrand - pub. Random House
16. Colonel Roosevelt, By: Edmund Morris - pub. Random House
17. Decoded, By: Jay-Z - pub. Spiegel and Grau
18. At Home: A Short History of Private Life, By: Bill Bryson - pub. Doubleday Books
19. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, By: Michael Lewis - pub. W.W. Norton and Company
20. Lord of Misrule, By: Jaimy Gordon - pub. McPherson
21. The Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles #1), By: Rick Riordan - pub. Hyperion Books
22. The Rembrandt Affair, By: Daniel Silva - pub. Putnam Adult
23. Just Kids, By: Patti Smith - pub. Ecco
24. I Still Dream about You, By: Fannie Flagg - pub. Random House
25. Innocent, By: Scott Turow - pub. Grand Central Publishing
So, there you have it! I admit I have only completely read 6 out of these top 25 but I've read snip-its of pretty much all of them. What's your take?
How can it be that I've not read ANY of these? I've taken 'slacker' to a whole new level!
ReplyDeleteJulie, I myself thought a lot of these titles were just eh..Just a few big names and breakouts. I want to be inspired when I read, taken away for a small time. I am thinking about a challenge!
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