LIST: Books Read in 2010

A Few Stats, and the List of the Year
total books read:  123
NF: 12             fiction: 112
library: 64

male: 53          female: 68
male & female team: 2


Countries of Authors:
Canada 31
United States 40
United Kingdom 28


Australia 4
Sweden, Italy 3
Brazil, Iceland, France, Pakistan, South Africa, Ethiopia, New Zealand, Japan, Nigeria, Finland: 1 or 2


My favorites are highlighted:
December

• 123. Unless - Carol Shields
• 122. The Man on the Balcony - Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo
• 121. Earth, the book - Jon Stewart
• 120. We Need to Talk About Kelvin - Marcus Chown
• 119. King Leary - Paul Quarrington
• 118. A Tiny Bit Marvellous - Dawn French
• 117. Hardboiled & Hard Luck - Banana Yoshimoto
• 116. Bound - Antonya Nelson
• 115. Essex County (vol 1 &2) - Jeff Lemire
• 114. What Child is This? - Caroline B Cooney

November

• 113. Minding Frankie - Maeve Binchy
• 112. Alone in the Crowd - Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
• 111. What is Stephen Harper Reading? - Yann Martel
• 110. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
• 109. The Mind's Eye - Oliver Sacks
• 108. Shiver - Maggie Stiefvager

October

• 107. Thirteen Hours - Deon Meyer
• 106. Gretzky's Tears - Stephen Brunt
• 105. The Murder Stone - Louise Penny
• 104. Code Orange - Caroline B Cooney
• 103. Fear the Worst - Linwood Barclay
• 102. The Darkest Room - Johan Theorin
• 101. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
• 100. You Comma Idiot - Doug Harris
• 99. Room - Emma Donoghue

September

• 98. The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
• 97. The Blue Castle - LM Montgomery
• 96. Mini Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
• 95. Barney's Version - Mordecai Richler
• 94. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
• 93. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
• 92. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams - Wayne Johnston

August

• 91. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
• 90. When You Reach Me - Rebecca Stead
• 89. Feeling Sorry for Celia - Jaclyn Moriarty
• 88. Blockade Billy - Stephen King
• 87. Trespass - Rose Tremain
• 86. Spies of the Balkans - Alan Furst
• 85. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
• 84. The Wings of the Sphinx - Andrea Camilleri
• 83. The Silence of the Rain - Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
• 82. Driving Over Lemons - Chris Stewart
• 81. One Day - David Nicholls
• 80. February - Lisa Moore
• 79. Heart of the Matter - Emily Giffin

July

• 78. The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
• 77. What Was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn
• 76. Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris
• 75. The News Where You Are - Catherine O'Flynn
• 74. Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
• 73. The Full Cupboard of Life - Alexander McCall Smith
• 72. Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie
• 71. August Heat - Andrea Camilleri
• 70. Death in the Truffle Wood - Pierre Magnan
• 69. Birds of a Feather - Jacqueline Winspear
• 68. The Nobodies Album - Carolyn Parkhurst
• 67. The Girls - Lori Lansens
• 66. A Tangled Web - LM Montgomery
• 65. Invincible Louisa - Cornelia Meggs
• 64. Thimble Summer - Elizabeth Enright

June

• 63. Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink
• 62. Tainted Blood (Jar City) - Arnaldur Indridason
• 61. The Brontes Went to Woolworths - Rachel Ferguson
• 60. A Little Yellow Dog - Walter Mosley
• 59. The Ask and the Answer - Patrick Ness
• 58. The Cruellest Month - Louise Penny
• 57. Truth - Peter Temple
• 56. Motorcycles & Sweetgrass - Drew Hayden Taylor

May

• 55. The Age of Persuasion - Terry O'Reilly & Mike Tennant
• 54. Out Backward - Ross Raisin
• 53. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
• 52. The Tale of Hill Top Farm - Susan Wittig Albert
• 51. Vintage Murder - Ngaio Marsh
• 50. Generation A - Douglas Coupland
• 49. The Rehearsal - Eleanor Catton
• 48. Bethlehem Road - Anne Perry
• 47. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
• 46. A Kid for Two Farthings - Wolf Mankowitz

April

• 45. Every Last One - Anna Quindlan
• 44. Maisie Dobbs - Jacqueline Winspear
• 43. Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde
• 42. Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
• 41. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
• 40. Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List - Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
• 39. The Missing Ink - Karen E. Olson
• 38. The Swimming Pool - Holly LeCraw
• 37. Q's Legacy - Helene Hanff
• 36. Zero - Diane Tullson
• 35. Paper Towns - John Green
• 34. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

March

• 33. The Paper Moon - Andrea Camilleri
• 32. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
• 31. The Green Mill Murder - Kerry Greenwood
• 30. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
• 29. The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris
• 28. Through Black Spruce - Joseph Boyden
• 27. La's Orchestra Saves the World - Alexander McCall Smith
• 26. The Book of Negroes - Lawrence Hill
• 25. Blankets - Craig Thompson
• 24. Broken For You - Stephanie Kallos
• 23. Red Mandarin Dress - Qiu Xiaolong
• 22. Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie

Februrary

• 21. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
• 20. Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
• 19. The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
• 18. Nikolski - Nicolas Dickner
• 17. Deloume Road - Matthew Hooton
• 16. The Tenth Gift - Jane Johnson
• 15. She Got Up Off the Couch - Haven Kimmel
• 14. Nellie McClung - Charlotte Gray
• 13. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
• 12. Dead Cold - Louise Penny
• 11. Why Shoot a Butler? - Georgette Heyer

 January

• 10. The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald
• 9. The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz
• 8. I am Morgan le Fay - Nancy Springer
• 7. The Incident Report - Martha Baillie
• 6. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
• Tales from Shakespeare - Marcia Williams
• 5. Snow Angels - James Thompson
• 4. Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• 3. Crossfire - Miyuki Miyabe
• 2. Poppy Shakespeare - Clare Allan
• 1. The Jade Peony - Wayson Choy