The Long Walk by Stephen King

"In the near future, where America has become a police state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life. The game is simple - maintain a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings, and you're out - permanently."

I think this gets the Purple Book Award 2010 , helped a bit as its fresh in my memory having only just finished it yesterday. Equally good were Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham, Skeletons by Al Sarrantonio and World War Z by Max Brooks. I'm reading Rage by Stephen King at the moment - another one in his Bachman books omnibus. Still just enough time for it to make it onto 2010's list if I spend the day reading.


Books I've read 2010
57. The Long Walk by Stephen King
56. An Ambush of Shadows by Paul O. Williams
55. The Enemy by Charlie Higson
54. The Pool of Fire by John Christopher
53. The City of Gold and Lead by John Christopher
52. The White Mountains by John Christopher
51. When the Tripods Came by John Christopher
50. Gone South by Robert R. McCammon
49. The Black Horde by Richard Lewis
48. The Lonely Warrior by Jean Offenberg
47. The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
46. Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun
45. Skeletons by Al Sarrantonio
44. The Hunters by James Salter
43. Wild Jack by John Christopher
42. Things we Didn't see Coming by Steven Amsterdam
41. The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World by Harry Harrison
40. The Blue World by Jack Vance
39. Of Beasts and Beings by Ian Holding
38. Feeding Ground by Sarah Pinborough
37. The Fall of the Shell by Paul O. Williams
36. Gender Genocide by Edmund Cooper
35. The Afterblight Chronicles: Death Got No Mercy by Al Ewing
34. The Afterblight Chronicles: School's Out by Scott Andrews
33. World War Z by Max Brooks
32. Plague Year by Jeff Carlson
31. The Pack by Tom Pow
30. The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
29. The Walking Dead by Craig Roberts & Charles W. Sasser
28. The Grain Kings by Keith Roberts
27. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
26. Blue World by Robert R. McCammon
25. The Dome in the Forest by Paul O. Williams
24. The Deluge by Mark Morris
23. What Niall Saw by Brian Cullen
22. Fugue for a Darkening Island by Christopher Priest
21. The Ends of the Circle by Paul O. Williams
20. The Breaking of Northwall by Paul O. Williams
19. Night by Elie Wiesel
18. Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
17. Blakely's Ark by Ian MacMillan
16. Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham
15. Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel
14. The Silent Multitude by D G Compton
13. Far North by Marcel Theroux
12. A Secret History of Time to Come by Robie Macauley
11. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
10. Fire Without Smoke by Florian Mayevski
9. The Blessing Papers by William Barnwell
8. Hater by David Moody
7. The Twelve by Stuart Neville
6. Cross Country by James Patterson
5. Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser
4. Bar None by Tim Lebbon
3. The Suicide Collectors by David Oppegaard
2. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
1. Breeding Ground by Sarah Pinborough