So the World is Ending at 5pm?

So today is the last day of humanity according to Harold Camping, the Oakland minister who's predicting the end of the world. He says that a huge earthquake is going to strike May 21, 2011, marking the Day of Rapture and the start of Judgment Day (which, they say, will last five months). Those who are saved will be taken up to heaven, and those who aren’t will endure unspeakable suffering. Dead bodies will be strewn about as earthquakes ravage the Earth, they say. And come October 21, they’ll tell you, the entire world will be kaput.

Oh man, Oh man, I still have a towering pile of unread books....a dozen ARC's from my friends at the Poisoned Pen, my reading stack of recently purchased titles and all those books piled next to my bed that I've longed to read but never found the time to start: Joe Landsdale's The Bottoms, Matin Millar's Curse of the Wolf Girl, Charlie Huston's Already Dead and Cory Doctorow's Little Brother.

At least I read Sandman Slim and Kill the Dead one of the best urban fantasy series of 2010 think noir with a lovable chain-smoking antihero.
Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia great smart, funny and clean shoot em up with monsters.
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
The Morganville Vampires Series by Rachel Caine
NightShade by Andrea Cremer - Romeo and Juliet in high school as werewolves. Loved it!
And the smash hit angel books: Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush, Hush, Lauren Kate's Fallen, and Alexandra Adornetto's Halo...

Let's hope Harold is wrong. There are just too many books on my shelves still to read.

I was a bookworm as a kid. My parents worried that I read so much, I was missing out on life. As a teen my reading grew even more voracious and I would devour entire series in a swoop.
Today, there seems to just not be enough time to read like I used to. What with my working schedule, daily chores and nightly crusades on the internet I am lucky to finish one book a week and my writing is suffering even more... so I’m making a—now public—affirmation to read and write more.

Here’s my 2010 list of must-read fiction:

Lets begin with 10 of the titles on my shelf that have been glaring at me for months:

Joe Landsdale, The Bottoms
Charlie Huston, Already Dead
Scott Lynch, The Lies of Lock Lamora
Patrick Rothfuss, Name of the Wind
Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself
Nancy Pickard, The Scent of Rain and Lightning
Amy Greene, Bloodroot
Susanna Kearsley, Winter Sea
Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game


and 10 YA titles
Matin Millar, Curse of the Wolf Girl,
Cory Doctorow, Little Brother.
Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Spirits that walk in Shadow
Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Janni Lee Simner, Faerie Winter
Derej Benz and JS Lewis, The Brimstone Key
Jenna Black, Glimmerglass
James Dashner, The Maze Runner
Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
Kiersten White, Paranormalcy

What do you want to read? I challenge you, while we still have time. to create your own 'books to read before the world really ends' list.

Want more reading list? Try: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die or

100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library
happily I can say I've read many of the titles on the list!

And there is always Oprah. Here is her 2010 Summer Reading List

or click the image below to join: the Reading challenge : Edgar Awards
a challenge to read the Best Novel winners.