Books 2010
Last year's total is a low since I started keeping track in 2004. Buying a house and moving really put a crimp in my reading. Also, my much shorter commute reduced the listening time for audiobooks, not that I'm complaining in the least about the aforementioned SHORTER commute. At any rate, my favorites for last year are: The Buckshaw Chronicles series by Alan Bradley, The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, This Must Be the Place by Kate Racculia, and Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson. Read them all!
* Read before
^ For book club
January (7)
The World's Wife: Carol Ann Duffy
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (audiobook): Alan Bradley
Coop: A Year of Pigs, Poultry, and Parenting: Michael Perry
Without: Poems: Donald Hall ^
North River (audiobook): Pete Hamill
Hamlet: William Shakespeare *
The Wild Iris: Louis Glück
February (8)
In Cold Blood (audiobook): Truman Capote
Dr. Zhivago: Boris Pasternak ^
Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment: Julie Powell
The Red Badge of Courage: Stephen Crane
The Falls (audiobook): Joyce Carol Oates
The Art of Racing in the Rain (audiobook): Garth Stein ^
Foiled Again: Poems: J. Allyn Rosser ^
Bread Alone: A Novel: Judith R. Hendricks
March (9)
The Baker's Apprentice: Judith Ryan Hendricks
1776 (audiobook): David McCullough
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her: Melanie Rehak
Draft of a Letter: James Longenbach ^
Kidnapped (audiobook): Robert Louis Stevenson
The Secret of the Old Clock: Carolyn Keene
Cranford (audiobook): Elizabeth Gaskell
The Book of Unholy Mischief: Elle Newmark ^
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (audiobook): Gore Vidal
April (5)
Ethan Frome (audiobook): Edith Wharton
Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History: Mark Leepson
Romanticism: April Bernard ^
All Other Nights: Dara Horn ^
Portrait in Sepia (audiobook): Isabel Allende
May (4)
The Rustlers of Pecos County (audiobook): Zane Grey
Treasure Island (audiobook): Robert Louis Stevenson
Peter and the Starcatchers (audiobook): Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson *
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet: Reif Larsen
June (5)
Peter and the Shadow Thieves (audiobook): Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson *
Peter and the Secret of Rundoon (audiobook): Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
Borders: Mary Crow ^
Peter and the Sword of Mercy (audiobook): Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table: Molly Wizenberg ^
July (5)
The Day the Falls Stood Still: Cathy Marie Buchanan ^
The Year of the Flood (audiobook): Margaret Atwood
A Necklace of Bees: Dannye Romine Powell ^
Great Expectations (audiobook): Charles Dickens ^
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: Alan Bradley ^ *
August (3)
Oryx and Crake (audiobook): Margaret Atwood
The World's Wife: Carol Ann Duffy ^ *
The Penelopiad (audiobook): Margaret Atwood
September (5)
The Gravedigger's Daughter (audiobook): Joyce Carol Oates
The Light Holds: Harvey Shapiro ^
The Scarlet Letter (audiobook): Nathaniel Hawthorne ^
Heart of Lies: M.L. Malcolm
This Must Be the Place: Kate Racculia
October (6)
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (audiobook): Helen Simonson
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (audiobook): Junot Díaz
Miss Julia Renews Her Vows (audiobook): Ann B. Ross
Love in the Time of Cholera: Gabriel García Máquez ^
Stranger: Laura Sims ^
Sizzling Sixteen: Janet Evanovich
November (4)
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag (audiobook): Alan Bradley
Half Broke Horses: Jeannette Walls ^
The Glass Castle: Jeannette Walls
Wuthering Heights (audiobook): Emily Brontë *
December (1)
The Lieutenant: Kate Grenville
Grand Total: 62