Books read in 2010:

January

• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Cradle, Patrick Somerville
• Summertime, J.M. Coetzee
• The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
• Astrid and Veronika, Linda Olsson
• The Year of the Goat, Margaret Hathaway
• Knots, Nuruddin Farah
• Surviving Paradise, Peter Rudiak-Gould
• Wench, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck
• Not Quite Paradise, Adele Barker
• Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
• Daddy Long-Legs, Jean Webster
• The Unnamed, Joshua Ferris
• The Optimist’s Daughter, Eudora Welty
• Bloodroot, Amy Greene
• Keeping the Feast, Paula Butturini

February

• Vanishing America, James Conaway
• The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova
• The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
• House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski
• Fault Lines, Nancy Huston
• The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
• This Book is Overdue!, Marilyn Johnson
• All the Living, C. E. Morgan
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
• A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid
• Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
• Sonata for Miriam, Linda Olsson
• In Hovering Flight, Joyce Hinnefeld
• Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, Susan Jane Gilman

March

• The Disappeared, Kim Echlin
• One Amazing Thing, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar
• New York, Edward Rutherfurd
• Dragon House, John Shors
• Crossing Washington Square, Joanne Rendell
• Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show, Frank Delaney
• Secret Lives of People in Love, Simon Van Booy
• A Voyage Long and Strange, Tony Horwitz
• Lark and Termite, Jayne Anne Phillips

April

• The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak
• The Hiding Place, Trezza Azzopardi
• Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell (audio book)
• Great Plains, Ian Frazier
• Maus I, Art Spiegelman
• The Girl Who Chased the Moon, Sarah Addison Allen
• Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
• The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
• Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, Maaza Mengiste
• Pearl of China, Anchee Min
• The Seamstress, Frances de Pontes Peebles

May

• A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
• A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert
• New York Sawed in Half, Joel Rose
• The Queen of Palmyra, Minrose Gwin
• The Appointment, Herta Muller
• The Story of a Marriage, Andrew Sean Greer
• Fugitives and Refugees, Chuck Palahniuk
• A Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy, Charlotte Greig
• Billy, IKEA
• The Bucolic Plague, Josh Kilmer-Purcell
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

June

• Leaving Unknown, Kerry Reichs
• Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi
• Graceling, Kristin Cashore
• Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon
• Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
• Lean on Pete, Willy Vlautin
• The Outside Boy, Jeanine Cummins
• Manolito Four-Eyes, Elvira Lindo
• The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, Michele Young-Stone
• Room, Emma Donoghue
• Purge, Sofi Oksanen
• The Tricking of Freya, Christina Sunley
• Tokyo Fiancee, Amelie Nothomb
• The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, Jennifer Steil
• Mattaponi Queen, Belle Boggs
• White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi
• My Name is Memory, Ann Brashares
• Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, Will Ferguson
• Stranger Here Below, Joyce Hinnefeld
• The Map of True Places, Brunonia Berry
• The Scent of Rain and Lightning, Nancy Pickard
• The Most Beautiful Book in the World, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
• Broken Glass Park, Alina Bronsky

July

• Scout, Atticus and Boo, Mary McDonagh Murphy
• Lit, Mary Karr
• I Am Hutterite, Mary-Ann Kirkby
• The Language of Trees, Ilie Ruby
• Mornings in Jenin, Susan Abulhawa
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Up from the Blue, Susan Henderson
• Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
• April and Oliver, Tess Callahan
• The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
• Backseat Saints, Joshilyn Jackson
• Finny, Justin Kramon
• Mr. Toppit, Charles Elton
• Day for Night, Frederick Reiken
• The False Friend, Myla Goldberg

August

• The Subtle Body, Stefanie Syman
• Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
• Coop, Michael Perry
• The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker
• Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor
• The Blind Contessa’s New Machine, Carey Wallace
• Sweetness and Blood, Michael Scott Moore
• Broken for You, Stephanie Kallos
• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
• The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise, Julia Stuart
• Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins