2010 Reading

The 125 Books I Read in 2010

• The Sentry - Robert Crais - 4.0
• The Boo - Pat Conroy - 3.0
• Inside of a Dog - Alexandra Horowitz - 4.0
• Territory - Emma Bull - 4.0
• North River - Pete Hamill - 5.0
• The Broken Shore - Peter Temple - 4.0
• Planet of the Apes - Pierre Boulle - 3.5
• In Memory of Junior - Clyde Edgerton - 3.5
• Book Lust to Go - Nancy Pearl - 5.0
• Bury Your Dead - Louise Penny - 5.0
• Bound to Last - Sean Manning, Editor - 5.0
• Crime Beat - Michael Conelly - 2.5
• Mark Twain's Other Woman - Laura Skandera Trombley - 4.0
• Set the Night on Fire - Libby Fischer Hellmann - 4.0
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski - 4.0
• My Reading Life - Pat Conroy - 5.0
• For Love of Country - William C. Hammond - 4.0
• Silence of the Grave - Arnaldur Indridason - 4.0
• Djibouti - Elmore Leonard - 2.5
• In Mania's Memory - Lisa Birnie - 4.0
• Moonlight Mile - Dennis Lehane - 4.0
• Zen and the Art of Surfing - Greg Gutierrez - 4.0
• City of Tranquil Light - Bo Caldwell - 5.0
• Nashville Chrome - Rick Bass - 3.0
• The Paris Vendetta - Steve Berry - 2.5
• Washington: A Life - Ron Chernow - 5.0
• Two of the Deadliest - Elizabeth George, ed. - 3.0
• At Home - Bill Bryson - 4.0
• Dark Road to Darjeeling - Deanna Raybourn - 4.0
• Arctic Chill - Arnaldur Indridason - 4.5
• Todos Santos - Deborah Clearman - 4.0
• Born Standing Up - Steve Martin - 3.0
• A World without Islam - Graham E. Fuller - 3.5
• Land of Ghosts - E.V. Seymour - 4.0
• S Is for Silence - Sue Grafton - 3.0
• The Hanging Tree - Bryan Gruley - 4.0
• The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai - Ruiyan Xu - 4.0
• Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen - Jimmy McDonough - 5.0
• The Gettysburg Approach to Writing & Speaking Like a Professional - Philip Yaffe - 5.0
• The Crying Tree - Naseem Rakfa - 4.0
• The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno - Ellen Bryson - 3.0
• Identical Strangers - Elyse Schein, Paula Bernstein - 3.5
• Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero - Tom Clavin, Danny Peary - 4.5
• Percival's Planet - Michael Byers - 3.0
• Beatrice and Virgil - Yann Martel - 5.0
• The Peep Diaries - Hal Niedzviecki - 3.0
• Ordinary Thunderstorms - William Boyd - 3.0
• Composed: A Memoir - Rosanne Cash - 4.0
• The White Garden - Stephanie Barron - 5.0
• The Fabulous Clipjoint - Fredric Brown - 4.0
• Perfect Reader - Maggie Pouncey - 4.0
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Audio) - Seth Grahame-Smith - 4.0
• That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom - Michael Graham - 4.0
• Shadow of the Swords - Kamran Pasha - 5.0
• Blockade Billy - Stephen King - 2.5
• War - Sebastian Junger - 5.0
• Me of Little Faith - Lewis Black - 2.5
• Running Dark - Jamie Freveletti - 4.0
• Careless in Red - Elizabeth George - 4.0
• Taroko Gorge - Jacob Ritari - 3.5
• Whiter Than Snow - Sandra Dallas - 4.0
• A Bad Day for Pretty - Sophie Littlefield - 3.5
• Home, Away - Jeff Gillenkirk - 5.0
• Far Cry - John Harvey - 5.0
• Unfinished Business: One Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things - Lee Kravitz - 3.5
• The Devil Amongst the Lawyers - Sharyn McCrumb - 4.0
• The Poacher's Son - Paul Doiron - 3.0
• The Third Rail - Michael Harvey - 2.5
• Mexico City Noir - Paco Ignacio Taibo II, ed. - 3.0
• Horns - Joe Hill - 3.5
• Mr. Peanut - Adam Ross - 2.5
• Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare - Jeremy Butterfield - 5.0
• Republic - Charles Sheehan-Miles - 4.0
• The Secret Speech - Tom Rob Smith - 5.0
• Not So Perfect - Nik Perring - 4.0
• Johnny Porno - Charlie Stella - 4.0
• A Week in December - Sebastian Faulkes - 4.0
• Losing My Cool - Thomas Chatterton Williams - 5.0
• Private Life - Jane Smiley - 3.0
• The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion - 4.0
• One Last Thing to Do before I Die - Steven Drew Goldberg - 4.0
• Lay Down My Sword and Shield - James Lee Burke - 3.5
• A Time to Betray - Reza Kahlili - 4.0
• The Malthusian Catastrophe - Ernesto Robles - 4.0
• Roadside Crosses - Jeffery Deaver - 2.5
• Drood - Dan Simmons - 4.0
• The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott - Kelly O'Connor McNees - 3.5
• Top of the Order - Sean Manning, Ed. - 4.0
• Still Midnight - Denise Mina - 3.0
• Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World - Claire Harman - 4.0
• The Scent of Rain and Lightning - Nancy Pickard - 3.0
• The Man from Saigon - Marti Leimbach - 4.0
• Never Tell Our Business to Strangers - Jennifer Mascia - 3.0
• Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier - 5.0
• Lies My Mother Never Told Me - Kaylie Jones - 5.0
• Tower - Ken Bruen, Reed Farrel Coleman - 4.5
• Watchlist: Two Serial Thrillers in One Killer Book - Multiple Authors - 3.0
• The Tennis Partner - Abraham Verghese - 4.0
• The Samaritan's Secret - Matt Beynon Rees - 4.0
• Noah's Compass - Anne Tyler - 3.5
• Bangkok 8 - John Burdett - 3.0
• Altar of Eden - James Rollins - 3.0
• Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War - Karl Marlantes - 4.5
• The Little Known - Janice Daugharty - 4.0
• 13 1/2 - Nevada Barr - 2.5
• Sleepless - Charlie Huston - 2.5
• A Fair Maiden - Joyce Carol Oates - 4.0
• The Things That Keep Us Here - Carla Buckley - 2.5
• T Is for Trespass - Sue Grafton - 4.0
• Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime - John Heilemann and Mark Halperin - 4.0
• Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters - Chesley Sullenberger with Jeffrey Zaslow - 4.0
• Transfer of Power - Vince Flynn - 3.5
• The Bronx Kill - Peter Milligan - 3.0
• Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese - 5.0
• Goosetown: Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood - Joyce Dyer - 4.0
• Homer & Langley - E.L. Doctorow - 4.0
• Blind Submission - Debra Ginsberg - 4.0
• Get Out of the Way - Daniel Dinges - 3.5
• Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times - Dr. Ralph Stanley, Eddie Dean - 4.0
• Boston Noir - Dennis Lehane, ed. - 3.0
• The Opposite Field - Jesse Katz - 4.0
• William S. and the Great Escape - Zilpha Keattey Snyder - 3.5
• The Calligrapher's Daughter - Eugenia Kim - 4.0
• The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris - 3.5