2010 Books Read

January

1.  Now & Then by Jacqueline Sheehan
2.  This is Not How I Thought it Would Be: Remodeling Motherhood to Get the Lives We Want Today by Kristin Maschka
3.  Spellbinder by Helen Stringer
4.  Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert
5.  Love is the Higher Law by David Levithan
6.  White Teeth by Zadie Smith
7. No Time to Wave Goodbye by Jacquelyn Mitchard
8.  If I Stay by Gayle Forman
9.  The Girl on Legare Street by Karen White
10.  The Faith Club by Ramya Idilby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner
11.  Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
12.  Love in the Present Tense by Catherine Ryan Hyde
13.  The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
14.  A River Called Time by Mia Cuoto
15.  Candor by Pam Bachorz

February

16.  Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr
17.  Keeping the Feast by Paula Butturini
18.  Wounded by Claudia Mair Burney
19.  What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg
20.  Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood
21.  The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
22.  Home Repair by Liz Rosenberg
23.  My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger
24.  East of Eden by John Steinbeck
25.  College Girl by Patricia Weitz
26.  Perfect by Natasha Friend
27.  How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth edited by John E. Wade II
28.  White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
29.  The Murderer’s Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers
30.  The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg

March

31.  The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
32.  If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
33.  The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah
34.  Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
35.  French Milk by Lucy Knisley
36.  Balancing Acts by Zoe Fishman
37.  Because I Am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas
38.  The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
39.  Heather: The Circle of Friends, Book 5 by L. Diane Wolfe
40.  Tropical Fish by Doreen Baingana
41.  Her Last Death – Susanna Sonnenberg
42.  Between Mom and Jo – Julie Anne Peters
43.  The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet by Myrlin A. Hermes
44.  The Disappeared by Kim Echlin
45.  The World in Half by Cristina Henriquez
46.  Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
47.  The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
48.  Wings by Aprilynne Pike
49.  Scars by Cheryl Rainfield
50.  Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild by Deborah Siegel

April

51.  One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
52.  Magnolia Wednesdays by Wendy Wax
53.  The Sweet By and By by Todd Johnson
54.  The Yada Yada Prayer Group by Neta Jackson
55.  House Rules by Jodi Picoult
56.  The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
57.  The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
58.  This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
59.  The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar
60.  Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
61.  The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff

May

62.  The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells
63.  Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
64.  Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk
65.  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
66.  A Thread of Sky by Deanna Fei
67.  How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
68.  Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott
69.  Cunt:  A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio
70.  Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
71.  The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight by Gina Ochsner
72.  Cost by Roxana Robinson
73.  The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C.W. Gortner
74.  The Everafter by Amy Huntley
75.  Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
76.  Everything is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma by Emma Larkin
77.  Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan

June

78.  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
79.  Raven Stole the Moon by Garth Stein
80.  Based Upon Availability by Alix Strauss
81.  Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick
82.  In the Path of Falling Objects by Andrew Smith
83.  Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
84.  Alone With You: Stories by Marisa Silver
85.  Savage Lands by Clare Clark
86.  The Language of Secrets by Dianne Dixon
87.  Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
88.  The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman
89.  The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
90.  The Wife’s Tale by Lori Lansens
91.  The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
92.  All Unquiet Things by Anna Jarzab
93.  The Song of Hannah by Eva Etzioni-Halevy
94.  Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
95.  Twenty-Six by Leo McKay Jr.
96.  Maus: A Survivor’s Tale Volume I by Art Spiegelman
97.  Bird in Hand by Christina Baker Kline

July

98.  SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
99.  The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone
100. The One That I Want by Allison Winn Scotch
101.  The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
102.  Maus II by Art Spiegelman
102.  The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong
103.  The Local News by Miriam Gershow
104.  The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
105.  There Is No Me Without You by Melissa Fay Greene
106.  On Folly Beach by Karen White
107.  Finny by Justin Kramon
108.  What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
109.  Short Girls by Bich MinhNguyen
110.  The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
111.  Nothing but Ghosts by Beth Kephart
112.  Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
113.  Pray for Silence by Linda Castillo
114.  My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
115.  29: A Novel by Adena Halpert

August

116.  Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
117.  Fragile by Lisa Unger
118.  The Lovers by Vendela Vida
119.  The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha
120.  Faithful Place by Tana French
121.  Godric by Frederick Buechner
122.  Fall by Colin McAdam
123.  Fury by Koren Zailckas
124.  The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
125.  My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
126.  Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent by Mario Tama
127.  Once in a Blue Moon by Eileen Goudge
128.  The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
129.  Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
130.  Jamie’s Food Revolution by Jamie Oliver
131.  Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

September

132.  Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
133.  Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
134.  Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire by Margot Berwin
135.  The Stuff That Never Happened by Maddie Dawson
136.  The Kitchen Shrink by Dora Colott Wang
137.  The Life You’ve Imagined by Kristina Riggle
138.  Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
139.  Ugly as Sin by Toni Raiten-D’Antonio
140.  Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong
141.  The Handbook for Lightening Strike Survivors by Michele Younge-Stone
142.  The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Galante
143.  Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahon
144.  What I Would Tell Her edited by Andrea N. Richesin
145.  War on the Margins by Libby Cone
146.  Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
147.  Strangers at the Feast by Jennifer Vanderbes

October

148.  The King’s Mistress by Emma Campion
149.  The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
150.  Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
151.  The Recipe Club by Andrea Israel & Nancy Garfinkel
152.  Keys to Good Cooking by Harold McGee
153.  Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
154.  Feed by M.T. Anderson
155.  Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman
156.  Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
157.  The Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree Drummond
158.  Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan
159.  Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
160.  America’s Prophet: How the Story of Moses Shaped America by Bruce Feiler
161.  City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
162.  The Passage by Justin Cronin

November

163.  Ape House by Sara Gruen
164.  Beautiful by Cindy Martinusen-Coloma
165.  Something Blue by Emily Giffin
166.  Matched by Ally Condie
167.  So Over My Head by Jenny B. Jones
168.  Christianity 201:  The Pursuit of Excellence by Amos Tarea
169.  The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
170.  Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
171.  By Fire, By Water by Mitchell James Kaplan
172.  My Maasai Life by Robin Wiszowaty
173.  Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
174.  For Keeps by Natasha Friend
175.  The Sister by Poppy Adams
176.  The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin
177.  A Little Help From My Friends by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt
178.  This Gorgeous Game by Donna Freitas
179.  City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
180.  Days of Grace by Catherine Hall
181.  Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr (reread)
182.  What I Thought I Knew by Alice Eve Cohen
183.  Baby Proof by Emily Giffin
184.  Room by Emma Donoghue
185.  Columbine by Dave Cullen

December

186.  The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn
187.  Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
188.  Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr.
189.  This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
190.  Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
191.  Stay With Me by Sandra Rodriguez Barron
192.  Fully Devoted:  Willow Creek Community Church by September Vaudrey
193.  The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry
194.  Broken Birds: The Story of My Momila by Jeannette Katzir
195.  Healer by Carol Cassella
196.  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (reread)
197.  The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, and June by Robin Benway
198.  Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
199.  Dirty Secret by Jessie Sholl
200.  Tell Me Something True by Leila Cobo
201.  Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi
202.  Eighteen Acres by Nicolle Wallace
203.  Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
204.  Big Girls Don’t Cry by Rebecca Traister