2010 Book Awards and Reading List

I realize this is about a week late. However, it is time for the 2010 Flying Inn book awards. All books I've read in 2010 are eligible.

Best Fiction book I read this year: Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Best History book I read this year: Tie: White Horse King by Benjamin Merkle and Gods Battalions by Rodney Stark

Best overall Nonfiction I read this year: Defending Constantine by Peter Leithart

Most difficult book I read this year: The Figure of Beatrice by Charles Williams

Most Eclectic book I read this year: The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek by Barry Cunliffe

Most Beautiful book I read this year: Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bedier (Hilaire Belloc, trans.)

And here is my 2010 book list:

Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy Sayers 12/10

The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross 12/10

Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Undset 12/10

Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen 12/10

From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics by Louis Markos 12/10

Blessed are the Hungry by Peter Leithart 12/10

Defending Constantine by Peter Leithart 11/10

The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence 11/10

The Seven Deadly Sins and Spiritual Transformation by John Mabray 11/10

The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton 11/10

The Echo of Greece by Edith Hamilton 10/10

Betjeman: A Life by A.N. Wilson 10/10

War and the Iliad by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff 10/10

Witchcraft by Charles Williams 10/10

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 10/10

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 9/10

The Children of Men by P.D. James 9/10

How to Be a Gentleman: A Timely Guide to Timeless Wisdom by John Bridges 9/10

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco 9/10

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett 8/10

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 8/10

Creed without Chaos: Exploring Theology in the Writings of Dorothy L. Sayers by Laura K. Simmons 8/10

Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays (A.C. Cawley, ed.) 8/10

The Argument Builder by Shelly Johnson 8/10

The Hollow by Agatha Christie 8/10

Why the Jews Rejected Jesus by David Klinghoffer 8/10

The Great Mystery: How Can Three Be One? by Christian W.H. Pauli (Hirsch Prinz/Rabbi Tzvi Nassi) 8/10

Dorothy L. Sayers: The Centenary Celebration (Alzina Stone Dale, ed.) 8/10

Persuasion by Jane Austen 8/10

Medieval Romances (Roger Sherman Loomis, trans.) 7/10

The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle 7/10

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 7/10

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 7/10

A Light in the Window by Jan Karon 7/10

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 7/10

Knowing God by J.I. Packer 7/10

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 7/10

Phantastes by George MacDonald 7/10

The Thinking Toolbox by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn 7/10

Mythology by Edith Hamilton 7/10

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon 7/10

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (William Butcher, trans.) 7/10

Viking Adventure by Clyde Robert Bulla 6/10

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder 6/10

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare 6/10

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 6/10

Aesop's Fables (Jack Zipes, ed.) 6/10

The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle 6/10

Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster 6/10

Art and the Bible by Francis Schaeffer 5/10

Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright 5/10

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphry Carpenter 5/10

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 5/10

Chronicles of the Crusades by Joinville and Villehardouin (M.R.B. Shaw, trans.) 5/10

The Barefoot Book of Knights by John Matthews 5/10

On Something by Hilaire Belloc 5/10

Brightest Heaven of Invention by Peter Leithart 5/10

Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory (Keith Baines, trans.) 4/10

Davy Crockett and the Indian Secret by James Lawrence 4/10

The Real Lincoln by Thomas Dilorenzo 4/10

Saint Thomas Aquinas: "The Dumb Ox" by G.K. Chesterton 4/10

So Brave, Young and Handsome by Lief Enger 4/10

The Figure of Beatrice by Charles Williams 3/10

Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot 3/10

Dove Descending: A Journey into T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets by Thomas Howard 3/10

God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades by Rodney Stark 3/10

The Ballad of the White Horse by G.K. Chesterton 3/10

All Hallows' Eve by Charles Williams 3/10

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl 3/10

The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great by Benjamin Merkle 3/10

The Life of Charlemagne by Einhard (Lewis Thorpe, trans.) 3/10

The Paideia of God by Douglas Wilson 3/10

The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek by Barry Cunliffe 3/10

The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus (Michael Grant, trans.) 3/10

A Short History of England by G. K. Chesterton 3/10

Creation in Six Days by James B. Jordan 2/10

How to Live with a Neurotic Cat by Stephen Baker 2/10

Cicero: Selected Works (Michael Grant, trans.) 2/10

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier (Hilaire Belloc, trans.) 2/10

The War with Hannibal by Livy (Aubrey de Sélincourt, trans.) 2/10

Whose Body? by Dorothy Sayers 1/10

On the Nature of Things by Lucretius (W. E. Leonard, trans.) 1/10

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 1/10