Note: As usual, this list includes books started prior to, but finished
in, 2010. Dates in parentheses are those the book in question was
finished.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Shunryu Suzuki (1.4.10)
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes (1.11.10)
The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America, Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson, trans. (1.13.10)
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, Iris Chang (1.21.10)
The Death of Woman Wang, Jonathan Spence (1.27.10)
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons, John Carter (2.20.10)
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall, Christopher Hibbert (3.19.10)
Naked Lunch@50: Anniversary Essays, Oliver Harris and Ian Macfadyen, eds. (3.24.10?)
The Tenant, Roland Topor (3.26.10)
Red Star Over China, Edgar Snow (4.7.10)
To The Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman, Yue Daiyun (4.18.10)
Anathem, Neal Stephenson (4.30.10)
The Iron Dream, Norman Spinrad (5.4.10)
Living With the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil, Stephen Batchelor (5.16.10)
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet, Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon (5.21.10)
The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (5.26.10)
The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten, Thomas Disch (6.1.10)
Dharma Drum: The Life and Heart of Chan Practice, Sheng Yen (6.15.10)
Modern Mythology, Andy Link (6.16.10)
Time Out of Joint, Philip K. Dick (6.18.10)
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Thomas Ligotti (7.7.10)
Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko, Donald Keene (trans.) (7.18.10)
Nog, Rudolph Wurlitzer (7.20.10)
Gloriana, Michael Moorcock (7.28.10)
The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama, Melvyn C. Goldstein (8.1.10)
Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang (8.3.10)
The Chinese Language: Its History and Current Usage, Daniel Kane (8.9.10)
Only Don't Know: Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn, Hyon Gak Sunim, ed. (8.17.10)
ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound (8.21.10)
Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence: Selected Essays, Gene Brucker (8.27.10)
The Sayings of Layman P'ang: A Zen Classic of China, James Green, trans. (9.2.10)
Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano, John Tytell (9.10.10)
The Feverhead, Wolfgang Bauer (9.13.10)
Niccolo's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli, Maurizio Viroli, Antony Shugaar (trans.) (9.15.10)
Zero History, William Gibson (9.30.10)
Kraken, China Mieville (10.23.10)
Politics in Renaissance Venice, Robert Finlay (11.6.10)
I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China, Zhu Wen (11.9.10)
Renaissance Rome, 1500-1559, Peter Partner (11.24.10)
All is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West, Lawrence Sutin (12.5.10)
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