Alan's 2010 List

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51. The Aviators by W.E.B. Griffin

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52. The Kikuchi Diary : Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp : The Tanforan Journals of Charles Kikuchi

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53. Robert B Parker The Professional

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54. Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper I found the style awkward and it seemed too impersonal for an autobiography.

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55. No One Would Listen This is getting a lot of play, but it isn't a very satisfying book. Have watched the author on CSPAN, and I can see why.

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56. Melancholy Baby by Robert B. Parker

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58. The Chicago Way A little tedious on the finish.

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57. Union Atlantic

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59. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do. Kind of like "Salt" and other one-topic nonfiction books.

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60. Gunman's Rhapsody Parker's first Western, not as successful as later books.

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61. Reversible Errors by Scott Turow. Kindle County again, but with different characters.

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62. Bryan PerrettAgainst All Odds More Dramatic Last Mostly British tales of 19th century, early 20th.

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63. Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell. The first of series, with Sharpe as private and Wellington (Wellesley) as colonel in India.

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64. Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey. I found this a disappointment. Too fussy about the aristocratic character.

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65. Blue-Eyed Devil by Robert B. Parker. Another Cole and Hicks western.

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66. John Masters Far, Far the Mountain Peak. A re-read. I knew Masters slightly when he lived in Santa Fe, and took people hiking and climbing around some of the "hills" in New Mexico. Along with Solo Faces and Eiger Sanction, it seems like a good climbing novel. The female characters would probably make modern readers a little angry.

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67. Sharpe's Triumph by Bernard Cornwell Sharpe in India, progressing to ensign by way of pitched battle.

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68. Topsy: The Story of a Golden-Haired Chow by Marie Bonaparte A sadder book than I hoped, and I can't recommend it. Bonaparte is linked with Freud, a chow owner. Topsy dies of cancer. She looks just like the chow I have now.

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69. Spare Change by Robert B. Parker Sonny Randall book.

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70. The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape by de Blij. Interesting nonfiction ranging on topics of language, immigration, religion.

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71. The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum

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72. Sharpe's Fortress by Bernard Cornwell

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73. The Age of Napoleon Will Durant The last in Durant's series, this was a good catch up on historical perspective around Sharpe's army.

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74. Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell Having listened to Sharpe, I got the only Cornwell at the library, a Saxon tale, and it's quite good. Brutal, but a different point of view than Sharpe.

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Sharpe's Devil by Bernard Cornwell Sharpe as a retired Lt. Colonel, off to Chile on mission.

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76. Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell

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77. The Management Myth: Management Consulting Past, Present & Largely Bogus

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78. Split Image by Robert B. Parker Latest Jesse Stone.

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79.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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80. Sharpe's Fury

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81, The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell. Not a Wallander. Another cold, dark murder mystery.

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82. Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England by Juliet Barker. The historical backdrop to Cornwell's book.

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83. A Close Run Thing by Allan Mallinson Another Napoleonic era redcoat, this was a cavalry officer, maybe a little too goody-goody, with his riding, swordsmanship and better than average ethics about the Irish, flogging, and all that.

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84. The Nizam's Daughters by Allan Mallinson Captain Hervey in India.

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85. Honourable Company History of British East India Company from 1600s.

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86. The Face of Battle John Keegan After reading fictional Agincourt and Waterloo, returned to "soldier's view" accounts of those battles.

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87. Tengu the Mountain Goblin: A Connor Burke Martial Arts Thriller A so-so martial arts thriller with capture, escape, and vengeance.

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88. The Girl Who Played with Fire Time for the next in trilogy.

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I've read or acquired most of the Sharpe series and am now reading some of the related history. Also picked up Stuart and Mallinson who plow some of the nearby fields of battle (to torture a mixed metaphor).

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89. Passage to Union: How the Railroads Tranformed American Life 1829-1929 by Sarah H. Gordon.

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90. Yasutaro SogaLife Behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaii Issei

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91. Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned Much the topic of discussion in DC area, with thoughts about nation building.

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92. The Winter King

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93. Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British Indiaby Lawrence James

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94. The Napoleonic Warsby Gunther Rothenberg

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95. A Regimental Affair Another in the Hervey cavalry series.

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96. The Sabre's Edge Hervey returns to India.

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97. The Lost Painting

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98. Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West A disappointment. More or less why the guys in power now are stupid, perhaps compared to the author?

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99. The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism by Peter Gay. Read this in the 70s when it was new, and all the names -- Hume, Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, were people I had to look up, requiring special trips downtown, or orders from Scrantom"s books. Now I they are remembered figures, but I found the book unenlightening.