Today is December 29th, which marks one year since I started the 50 book challenge. I ended up reading 210 books, although that number would have been much lower if I hadn't been out of school/work for so long. You can see the list of all the books I read here. I probably read something like 20 books in 2010, and having this blog definitely helped me read more. Earlier, someone asked me if I was going to post a picture of all the books I read this year. I can't do this since a) a number of them were from the library and b) there are too many to photograph without difficulty. Instead, I decided to list and photograph some of my favourites. Ones listed but not in the photograph are from the good ol' library. I didn't include rereads because if I reread a book it's one of my favourites anyways. So, if you look at my book challenge and wondered why I didn't list The Book Thief or The Hunger Games as a favourite, that's why.
Favourite Junior Fiction Books
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood
Favourite YA Books
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Favourite Adult Fiction
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie BarrowsThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
The Book of Lost Things by John ConnollyThe Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern