1. Stalking Darkness- Lynn Flewelling
2. Shadows Return- Lynn Flewelling
3. The Bone Doll's Twin- Lynn Flewelling
Lynn is a new discovery for me this year, and I've read everything she's written so far. Her fantasies are all based in the same world, in two series. The second, the Nightrunner series, is slash fantasy- my fave!- and is very character driven, something I love as well.
4. Lord of Snow and Shadows- Sarah Ash
5. Prisoner of the Iron Tower- Sarah Ash
My second (this month actually) discovery this year. This series, of which I have yet to read the third, is more story-driven than Flewelling's, but still have great characters. It's exciting and thoughtful fantasy.
6. Shadowdance- Robin Wayne Bailey
A book about a cripple (a gay cripple, even better yay!) given the opportunity to dance- but at a high cost.
7. Drawing Blood- Poppy Z. Brite
Another slash, this one horror/ fiction, about a boy discovering himself in the memories of his family's brutal murder.
8. Heroes Die- Matthew Woodring Stover
I'm sorry I didn't read this before. Very thought-provoking science fantasy that went surprisingly fast for how dense it was.
I'd say those are the top, as far as what I feel like sharing with this message board.
2. Shadows Return- Lynn Flewelling
3. The Bone Doll's Twin- Lynn Flewelling
Lynn is a new discovery for me this year, and I've read everything she's written so far. Her fantasies are all based in the same world, in two series. The second, the Nightrunner series, is slash fantasy- my fave!- and is very character driven, something I love as well.
4. Lord of Snow and Shadows- Sarah Ash
5. Prisoner of the Iron Tower- Sarah Ash
My second (this month actually) discovery this year. This series, of which I have yet to read the third, is more story-driven than Flewelling's, but still have great characters. It's exciting and thoughtful fantasy.
6. Shadowdance- Robin Wayne Bailey
A book about a cripple (a gay cripple, even better yay!) given the opportunity to dance- but at a high cost.
7. Drawing Blood- Poppy Z. Brite
Another slash, this one horror/ fiction, about a boy discovering himself in the memories of his family's brutal murder.
8. Heroes Die- Matthew Woodring Stover
I'm sorry I didn't read this before. Very thought-provoking science fantasy that went surprisingly fast for how dense it was.
I'd say those are the top, as far as what I feel like sharing with this message board.
Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position. - Bill Maher
What are your top ten reads of 2010?
- 20/12/2010 12:07:54 PM
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I'll give you a top five. I only read about 25 books so the top 10 isn't necessarily "good".
- 20/12/2010 07:26:41 PM
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Let's see, this is an interesting exercise...
- 20/12/2010 08:48:20 PM
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I enjoyed Mahfouz, but I agree the translation wasn't stellar
- 20/12/2010 11:27:39 PM
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I read a Dutch translation, so presumably not the same one as yours. 
- 21/12/2010 06:38:29 PM
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- 21/12/2010 06:38:29 PM
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Okay, have to add Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian in there somewhere, see my review. *NM*
- 29/12/2010 09:41:22 PM
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Hmm.(New)
- 21/12/2010 02:21:40 AM
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You have to be the only person I've ever met who prefers Erikson's first book over the second.
- 21/12/2010 06:42:40 PM
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Well.
- 21/12/2010 09:19:42 PM
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Re: I'm with you on Felisin. Boring.
- 25/12/2010 12:45:03 AM
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Yeah. Whenever I think of DH- it's always the Chain of Dogs.
- 26/12/2010 09:47:49 PM
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Re: Yeah. Whenever I think of DH- it's always the Chain of Dogs.
- 26/12/2010 11:49:49 PM
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850? So you have the best 200 pages left? *NM*
- 27/12/2010 11:55:21 AM
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Hey hey hey no.
- 27/12/2010 02:07:38 PM
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My top eight in no particular order, as well as my two most disappointing books for the year.
- 21/12/2010 06:19:00 AM
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Top ten-ish, no particular order
- 24/12/2010 05:00:20 AM
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