Books I Read in 2010/New-Old Reading Challenge Round-Up

Here are the books I read in 2010. Those marked with double **'s were re-readings of an old favorite. It looks like I didn’t quite meet my own goal of one “old” book for every “new” book I read, but I came close. Out of 30 books, 13 of them were “old reads”.

So how did you do? Did you join my 2010 New/Old Reading Challenge? Here were the categories, in case you’ve forgotten:

(1) Read a minimum of 4 “old favorites” in 2010 and be entered for a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift certificate.

(2) Read a minimum of 8 “old favorites” in 2010 and be entered for a chance to win a $10 Amazon gift certificate.

(3) Read 12 or more “old favorites” in 2010 and be entered for a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift certificate.

Email me your reading list, with your “old favorites” marked, to jdipastena@yahoo.com no later than midnight PST January 14, 2011, and please type “2010 New/Old Reading Challenge” in the subject line. Include your email address, please. Winners will be drawn on January 15. (If no one enters, the gift certificates will all fall to me by default. Do you really want that to happen? ;-) )

Joyce DiPastena's 2010 Reading List

(my favorite "new" book of the year is marked with 

three ***s, in red)

Haunts Haven, by Joan Sowards (fiction - begun in 2009)

Missing, by Ronda Hinrichsen (fiction)

He Walked the Americas, by L. Taylor Hansen (non-fiction)**

Apollo's Child, by Joan Smith (fiction)

The Talisman Ring, by Georgette Heyer (fiction)**

Easterfield, by Anna Jones Buttimore (fiction)

The Ogre Downstairs, by Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)**

The Prince and the Pilgrim, by Mary Stewart (fiction)

The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart (fiction)**

Your Money or Your Life, by Neil Cavuto (non-fiction)

The Hollow Hills, by Mary Stewart (fiction)**

Queen in Exile, by Donna Hatch (fiction)

The Last Enchantment, by Mary Stewart (fiction)

Bow Street Gentleman, by Margaret SeBastian (fiction)**

See No Evil, My Pretty Lady, by Miss Mae (fiction)

Chocolate Roses, by Joan Sowards (fiction)

Henry Plantagenet, by Richard Barber (non-fiction)**

Friday's Child, by Georgette Heyer (fiction)**

Trapped, by Ronda Gibb Hinrichsen (fiction)

The Plantagenets: A Pride of Kings, by Juliet Dymoke (fiction)**

The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (fiction)

The Black Moth, by Georgette Heyer (fiction)**

These Old Shades, by Georgette Heyer (fiction)**

Redemption, by Susan Dayley (fiction)

Flame-Colored Taffeta, by Rosemary Sutcliff (fiction)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by JK Rowling (fiction)**

Perilous, by Tamara Hart Heiner (fiction)

The Door in the Wall, by Marguerite De Angeli (fiction)**

At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, by A. Roger Ekirch (non-fiction)

By Heart and Compass, by Danielle Thorne (fiction)

**re-reading of an old favorite

***Favorite "new" book of 2010