A chronological list, January to December, of the 52 titles I read in 2010. A breakdown: six by Mark Twain, five by A. Conan Doyle, three each by Harlan Ellison, Samuel Beckett and Jonathan Lethem, two each by Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury and John D. MacDonald and lone books by a bunch of others.

1. “Waiting for Godot,” Samuel Beckett
2. “Happy Days,” Samuel Beckett
3. “A Study in Scarlet,” A. Conan Doyle
4. “Baghdad by the Bay,” Herb Caen
5. “Three Coins in the Birdbath,” Jack Smith
6. “The Thin Man,” Dashiell Hammett
7. “Pulp Culture,” Frank M. Robinson and Lawrence Davidson
8. “Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust,” Nathanael West
9. “The Sign of the Four,” A. Conan Doyle
10. “Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002,” Jonathan Lethem, ed.
11. “The Lottery and Other Stories,” Shirley Jackson
12. “What Mad Universe,” Fredric Brown
13. “The Quick Red Fox,” John D. MacDonald
14. “Dark Carnival,” Ray Bradbury
15. “Solar Lottery,” Philip K. Dick
16. “The October Country,” Ray Bradbury
17. “Roughing It,” Mark Twain
18. “Endgame,” Samuel Beckett
19. “The World Jones Made,” Philip K. Dick
20. “Just When You Thought It Was Safe: A Jaws Companion,” Patrick Jankiewicz
21. “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Robert Louis Stevenson
22. “Dancing Under the Moon,” Al Martinez
23. “Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell With the Rolling Stones,” Robert Greenfield
24. “Why Call Them Back From Heaven?” Clifford D. Simak
25. “The Diaries of Adam & Eve,” Mark Twain
26. “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” A. Conan Doyle
27. “If You’re Feeling Sinister,” Scott Plagenhoef
28. “The ‘Reel’ Benchley,” Robert Benchley
29. “Millard Sheets: The Early Years (1926-1944),” Gordon McClelland
30. “The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966,” Robert Santelli
31. “The Loved One,” Evelyn Waugh
32. “Let Me Count the Ways,” Peter DeVries
33. “City Lights,” Dan Barry
34. “The Lurking Fear,” H.P. Lovecraft
35. “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” James M. Cain
36. “No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger,” Mark Twain
37. “Selected Shorter Writings of Mark Twain,” Walter Blair, ed.
38. “The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain,” Lawrence Berkove, ed.
39. “The Good, the Bad and the Mad: Some Weird People in American History,” E. Randall Floyd
40. “The God of War,” Marisa Silver
41. “A Deadly Shade of Gold,” John D. MacDonald
42. “Gentleman Junkie,” Harlan Ellison
43. “Fahrenheit 451,” Ray Bradbury
44. “From the Land of Fear,” Harlan Ellison
45. “The Fortress of Solitude,” Jonathan Lethem
46. “Life on the Mississippi,” Mark Twain
47. “Marvel Comics in the 1960s: An Issue-By-Issue Field Guide…,” Pierre Comtois
48. “Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,” A. Conan Doyle
49. “Memos From Purgatory,” Harlan Ellison
50. “Motherless Brooklyn,” Jonathan Lethem
51. “The Most of S.J. Perelman,” S.J. Perelman
52. “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” A. Conan Doyle