Books Read in 2010

updated Sunday, January 23, 2011

Number of books read: 450
Number of pages read: 158,938


1. The Hollow – Jessica Verday
2. Battle Royale – Koushun Takami
3. The Three Weissmanns of Westport – Cathleen Schine
4. Misquoting Jesus – Bart Ehrman
5. The Palace of Illusions – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
6. Aunt Dimity’s Death – Nancy Atherton
7. The Brightest Star in the Sky – Marian Keyes
8. Some Girls Are – Courtney Summers
9. Small Wars – Sadie Jones
10. The Kingdom of Ohio – Matthew Flaming
11. Superfreakonomics – Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
12. Bought – Anna David
13. When You Reach Me – Rebecca Stead
14. The Last Ember – Daniel Levin
15. Death By The Book – Lenny Bartulin
16. Hate List – Jennifer Brown
17. Very Valentine – Adriana Trigiani
18. The Unnamed – Joshua Ferris
19. The Unwritten Rule – Elizabeth Scott
20. The Fidelity Files – Jessica Brody
21. The Lady in the Tower – Alison Weir
22. Requiem in Vienna – J. Sydney Jones
23. The Glass Room – Simon Mawer
24. Bombay Time – Thrity Umrigar
25. Beautiful Creatures – Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
26. The Opposite of Me – Sarah Pekkanen
27. The Gardner Heist – Ulrich Boser
28. Winter Garden – Kristin Hannah
29. Secrets of the Tudor Court: The Pleasure Palace – Kate Emerson
30. Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
31. Murder at Longbourn – Tracy Kiely
32. Rich Again – Anna Maxted
33. Wench – Dolen Perkins-Valdez
34. Keeping the Feast – Paula Butturini
35. The Big Love – Sarah Dunn
36. The Wife’s Tale – Lori Lansens
37. The Stolen Crown – Susan Higginbotham
38. All Unquiet Things – Anna Jarzab
39. Once in a Lifetime – Cathy Kelly
40. One Amazing Thing – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
41. Atlas of Unknowns – Tania James
42. The Language of Secrets – Dianne Dixon
43. The Last Man on the Moon – Gene Cernan & Don Davis
44. Devil in Winter – Lisa Kleypas
45. Kitchen Chinese – Ann Mah
46. The Thistle and the Rose – Jean Plaidy
47. The Cougar Club – Susan McBride
48. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
49. Marriage and Other Acts of Charity – Kate Braestrup
50. Fury – Salman Rushdie
51. Sex, Murder, and a Double Latte – Kyra Davis
52. Merlin’s Harp – Anne Crompton
53. The Girl Who Chased the Moon – Sarah Addison Allen
54. The Secrets We Keep – Colette Caddle
55. Brava, Valentine – Adriana Trigiani
56. Bad Things Happen – Harry Dolen
57. Spiced – Dalia Jurgensen
58. Secrets of the Tudor Court: Between Two Queens – Kate Emerson
59. Angelology – Danielle Trussoni
60. The Piano Teacher – Janice Y. K. Lee
61. Don’t You Forget About Me – Jancee Dunn
62. Pieces of Happily Ever After – Irene Zutell
63. Beautiful Dead, Book 1: Jonas – Eden Maguire
64. The Last Bridge – Teri Coyne
65. Over Sea, Under Stone – Susan Cooper
66. The Dark Is Rising – Susan Cooper
67. Greenwitch – Susan Cooper
68. The Grey King – Susan Cooper
69. Silver on the Tree – Susan Cooper
70. The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin
71. Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter – A.E. Moorat
72. The Dead Travel Fast – Deanna Raybourn
73. After – Kristin Harmel
74. Unfinished Desires – Gail Godwin
75. Magnolia Wednesdays – Wendy Wax
76. Almost Home – Pam Jenoff
77. Flawless – Scott Andrew Selby & Greg Campbell
78. Good Things – Mia King
79. Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh
80. The Forest of Hands and Teeth – Carrie Ryan
81. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott – Kelly O’Connor McNees
82. The Scarlet Lion – Elizabeth Chadwick
83. The Sky Is Everywhere – Jandy Nelson
84. Confections of a Closet Master Baker – Gesine Bullock-Prado
85. Young Bess – Margaret Irwin
86. The Case of the Missing Servant – Tarquin Hall
87. Arcadia Falls – Carol Goodman
88. Henry’s Sisters – Cathy Lamb
89. Devotion – Dani Shapiro
90. Black Hills – Nora Roberts
91. The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
92. The Sea of Monsters – Rick Riordan
93. Restoring Harmony – Joelle Anthony
94. The Lost City of Z – David Grann
95. Second Time Around – Beth Kendrick
96. Little Bird of Heaven – Joyce Carol Oates
97. The Language of Sand – Ellen Block
98. The Devil’s Star – Jo Nesbo
99. The Next Best Thing – Kristan Higgins
100. Balancing Acts – Zoe Fishman
101. Before I Fall – Lauren Oliver
102. Claude and Camille – Stephanie Cowell
103. Blood Vines – Erica Spindler
104. Dreaming in Hindi – Katherine Russell Rich
105. Solar – Ian McEwan
106. The Tale of Halcyon Crane – Wendy Webb
107. Get Lucky – Katherine Center
108. Stitches – David Small
109. Darling Jim – Christian Moerk
110. The Heart Is Not A Size – Beth Kephart
111. The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton
112. London is the Best City in America – Laura Dave
113. Secret Daughter – Shilpi Somaya Gowda
114. Watermark – Vanitha Sankaran
115. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
116. Dream Girl – Lauren Mechling
117. False Mermaid – Erin Hart
118. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution – Neil deGrasse Tyson & Donald Goldsmith
119. Savor the Moment – Nora Roberts
120. Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
121. The Spellmans Strike Again – Lisa Lutz
122. Hush – Kate White
123. The Postmistress – Sarah Blake
124. Secrets of Eden – Chris Bohjalian
125. Living Dead Girl – Elizabeth Scott
126. The Season of Second Chances – Diane Meier
127. This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness – Laura Munson
128. Haunt Me Still – Jennifer Lee Carrell
129. The Hand That First Held Mine – Maggie O’Farrell
130. The Island of Lost Girls – Jennifer McMahon
131. The Dead-Tossed Waves – Carrie Ryan
132. Angels of Destruction – Keith Donohue
133. The Singer’s Gun – Emily St. John Mandel
134. Self Storage – Gayle Brandeis
135. Something Like Fate – Susane Colasanti
136. Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes
137. Possession – A.S. Byatt
138. On Folly Beach – Karen White
139. A Rather Lovely Inheritance – C.A. Belmond
140. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson
141. Caught – Harlan Coben
142. The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners – Luanne Rice
143. Just Like Me, Only Better – Carol Snow
144. Mortal Friends – Jane Stanton Hitchcock
145. The Queen’s Governess – Karen Harper
146. My Fair Lazy – Jen Lancaster
147. Murder on Nob Hill – Shirley Tallman
148. My Wife’s Affair – Nancy Woodruff
149. Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann
150. Looking for a Love Story – Louise Shaffer
151. The Bride Will Keep Her Name – Jan Goldstein
152. For Keeps – Natasha Friend
153. The Passage – Justin Cronin
154. Dead in the Water – Meredith Cole
155. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
156. Kisses and Lies – Lauren Henderson
157. A Hidden Affair – Pam Jenoff
158. Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri
159. The Map of True Places – Brunonia Barry
160. The Lies We Told – Diane Chamberlain
161. Winging It – Jenny Gardiner
162. Heart of the Matter – Emily Giffin
163. Waiting for Columbus – Thomas Trofimuk
164. I Can See You – Karen Rose
165. Dream Life – Lauren Mechling
166. Spooky Little Girl – Laurie Notaro
167. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson
168. Needles and Pearls – Gil McNeil
169. The Adoration of Jenna Fox – Mary E. Pearson
170. Leaving India – Minal Hajratwala
171. A Curtain Falls – Stefanie Pintoff
172. The One That I Want – Allison Winn Scotch
173. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake – Aimee Bender
174. Climbing the Stairs – Padma Venkatraman
175. A Vintage Affair – Isabel Wolff
176. The Poet Prince – Kathleen McGowan
177. Heaven – Lisa Miller
178. Heresy – S.J. Parris
179. A Year on Ladybug Farm – Donna Ball
180. Hush, Hush – Becca Fitzpatrick
181. Fireworks Over Toccoa – Jeffrey Stepakoff
182. The Titan’s Curse – Rick Riordan
183. Half Life – Roopa Farooki
184. My Name Is Memory – Ann Brashares
185. Envy – Anna Godbersen
186. Promises to Keep – Jane Green
187. Bruno, Chief of Police – Martin Walker
188. Postcards from a Dead Girl – Kirk Faber
189. Beneath the Sands of Egypt – Donald P. Ryan
190. Lavinia – Ursula K. Le Guin
191. 1st to Die – James Patterson
192. The Book of Spies – Gayle Lynds
193. Stay – Allie Larkin
194. The Whole Wide Beauty – Emily Woof
195. Day for Night – Frederick Reiken
196. Beachcombers – Nancy Thayer
197. The Lost Girls – Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett, Amanda Pressner
198. Insatiable – Meg Cabot
199. V for Vendetta – Alan Moore & David Lloyd
200. A Gate at the Stairs – Lorrie Moore
201. Seven Year Switch – Claire Cook
202. Perfect Reader – Maggie Pouncey
203. Leaving Unknown – Kerry Reichs
204. The House of Subadar – Vijay Medtia
205. Riding Rockets – Mike Mullane
206. Changes  – Jim Butcher
207. Rampant – Diana Peterfreund
208. And Only To Deceive – Tasha Alexander
209. Baltimore Blues – Laura Lippman
210. The Battle of the Labyrinth – Rick Riordan
211. The Last Olympian – Rick Riordan
212. Kiss in the Dark – Lauren Henderson
213. The Lost Chalice – Vernon Silver
214. Between the Tides – Patti Callahan Henry
215. Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris
216. Kept – D.J. Taylor
217. A Stranger in the Family – Robert Barnard
218. 29 – Adena Halpern
219. America – Jon Stewart and the Writers of The Daily Show
220. The House on Oyster Creek – Heidi Jon Schmidt
221. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County – Tiffany Baker
222. Sea Escape – Lynne Griffin
223. The Messenger of Athens – Anne Zouroudi
224. The Woman Who Fell From the Sky – Jennifer Steil
225. The Space Between Us – Thrity Umrigar
226. The Kill Artist – Daniel Silva
227. Just a Geek – Wil Wheaton
228. She’s Gone Country – Jane Porter
229. Linger – Maggie Stiefvater
230. The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors – Michele Young-Stone
231. Captive Queen – Alison Weir
232. Fragile – Lisa Unger
233. A God Somewhere – David Arcudi & Peter Snejbjerg
234. Curtains – Tom Jokinen
235. Once in a Blue Moon – Eileen Goudge
236. Hidden Wives – Claire Avery
237. In the Land of Believers – Gina Welch
238. Shade – Jeri Smith-Ready
239. The Island – Elin Hilderbrand
240. Life After Yes – Aiden Donnelly Rowley
241. The King’s Mistress – Emma Campion
242. The Unexpected Son – Shobhan Bantwal
243. Confessions of a Rebel Debutante – Anna Fields
244. The Lovers – Vendela Vida
245. Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea – Chelsea Handler
246. The Irresistible Henry House – Lisa Grunwald
247. The Cold Light of Mourning – Elizabeth J. Duncan
248. Splendor – Anna Godbersen
249. The Life You’ve Imagined – Kristina Riggle
250. The House of Tomorrow – Peter Bognanni
251. Shiva’s Arms – Cheryl Snell
252. Sweet Life – Mia King
253. Apollo 13 – Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger
254. The Whole World – Emily Winslow
255. Dracula in Love – Karen Essex
256. The Quick and the Thread – Amanda Lee
257. How Dolly Parton Saved My Life – Charlotte Connors
258. The Lighter Side of Life and Death – C.K. Kelly Martin
259. The Red Queen – Philippa Gregory
260. Escape – Carolyn Jessop
261. The Stuff That Never Happened – Maddie Dawson
262. Holly’s Inbox: Scandal in the City – Holly Denham
263. A Bad Day For Sorry – Sophie Littlefield
264. Lonely – Emily White
265. The Home for Broken Hearts – Rowan Coleman
266. His Last Letter – Jeane Westin
267. The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes – Diane Chamberlain
268. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
269. The Chemistry of Death – Simon Beckett
270. With Friends Like These – Sally Koslow
271. Room – Emma Donoghue
272. Out of the Shadows – Joanne Rendell
273. The Wild Vine – Todd Kliman
274. I Am Number Four – Pittacus Lore
275. Summer House – Nancy Thayer
276. My Fight For Faith and Freedom – Sabatina James
277. The Crossing Places – Elly Griffiths
278. Charm City – Laura Lippman
279. Good Enough To Eat – Stacey Ballis
280. The Nobodies Album – Carolyn Parkhurst
281. Russian Winter – Daphne Kalotay
282. Maybe This Time – Jennifer Crusie
283. Priceless – Robert K. Wittman & John Shiffman
284. The Pleasure Seekers – Tishani Doshi
285. Finding Nouf – Zoe Ferraris
286. I’d Know You Anywhere – Laura Lippman
287. The Rembrandt Affair – Daniel Silva
288. The Good Daughters – Joyce Maynard
289. The Girl She Used To Be – David Cristofano
290. Fly Away Home – Jennifer Weiner
291. Packing for Mars – Mary Roach
292. The Confessions of Catherine de Medici – C.W. Gortner
293. Still Missing – Chevy Stevens
294. The Reapers are the Angels – Alden Bell
295. Shadow Play – Rajorshi Chakraborti
296. Tell-All – Chuck Palahniuk
297. Troublemaker, Vol. 1 – Janet Evanovich, Alex Evanovich & Joelle Jones
298. Every Last One – Anna Quindlen
299. Leonardo’s Legacy – Stefan Klein
300. My Life in France – Julia Child & Alex Prud’Homme
301. Faithful Place – Tana French
302. According to Jane – Marilyn Brant
303. Déjà Dead – Kathy Reichs
304. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. – Sam Wasson
305. Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
306. The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
307. Georgia’s Kitchen – Jenny Nelson
308. Juliet – Anne Fortier
309. A Bad Day’s Work – Nora McFarland
310. Dark Road to Darjeeling – Deanna Raybourn
311. Triumph – Carolyn Jessop
312. Friday Mornings at Nine – Marilyn Brant
313. Red Hook Road – Ayelet Waldman
314. Paradise Under Glass – Ruth Kassinger
315. Corner Shop – Roopa Farooki
316. Written In Bone – Simon Beckett
317. I Remember You – Harriet Evans
318. All I Ever Wanted – Kristan Higgins
319. Let’s Take The Long Way Home – Gail Caldwell
320. Love in Mid Air – Kim Wright
321. I Know I Am, But What Are You – Samantha Bee
322. Husband and Wife – Leah Stewart
323. Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley
324. All Is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost – Lan Samantha Chang
325. The Blessings of the Animals – Katrina Kittle
326. The Wet Nurse’s Tale – Erica Eisdorfer
327. Delirium – Lauren Oliver
328. Starting from Scratch – Susan Gilbert-Collins
329. The Rainaldi Quartet – Paul Adam
330. The Pages – Murray Bail
331. Madras on Rainy Days – Samina Ali
332. The Elegant Universe – Brian Greene
333. Because All Is Not Lost – Sweta Vikram
334. Daphne – Justine Picardie
335. The Space Between Trees – Katie Williams
336. Whispers of the Dead – Simon Beckett
337. Medium Raw – Anthony Bourdain
338. The Love Goddess’ Cooking School – Melissa Senate
339. Miss You Most of All – Elizabeth Bass
340. Dark Moon of Avalon – Anna Elliott
341. Trespass – Rose Tremain
342. Between Here and April – Deborah Copaken Kogan
343. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
344. The Spice Necklace – Ann Vanderhoof
345. The Truth-Teller’s Lie – Sophie Hannah
346. The Scorch Trials – James Dashner
347. American Wife – Curtis Sittenfeld
348. Love is a Mix Tape – Rob Sheffield
349. The Long Way Home – Robin Pilcher
350. Last Night at Chateau Marmont – Lauren Weisberger
351. The Gendarme – Mark Mustian
352. Extraordinary – Nancy Werlin
353. The Emperor’s Tomb – Steve Berry
354. Shaking the Family Tree – Buzzy Jackson
355. City of Veils – Zoe Ferraris
356. Goddess for Hire – Sonia Singh
357. The Transformation of Things – Jillian Cantor
358. Haroun and the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie
359. Open – Andre Agassi
360. Beautiful Malice – Rebecca James
361. The Accidental Billionaires – Ben Mezrich
362. Strangers at the Feast – Jennifer Vanderbes
363. The Debutante – Kathleen Tessaro
364. The Distant Hours – Kate Morton
365. Earth – Jon Stewart & The Writers of The Daily Show
366. Sworn to Silence – Linda Castillo
367. The Perfect Love Song – Patti Callahan Henry
368. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
369. Falling Home - Karen White
370. Sourland: Stories - Joyce Carol Oates
371. The Exile - Diana Gabaldon & Hoang Nguyen
372. The Jewel of St. Petersburg - Kate Furnivall
373. Death Notice - Todd Ritter
374. The Wave - Susan Casey
375. The Cookbook Collector - Allegra Goodman
376. How to Bake a Perfect Life - Barbara O’Neal
377. Luka and the Fire of Life - Salman Rushdie
378. The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee
379. Bellfield Hall - Anna Dean
380. Born Confused - Tanuja Desai Hidier
381. The Hundred Foot Journey - Richard Morais
382. Matched - Ally Condie
383. A Bad Day for Pretty - Sophie Littlefield
384. Don’t Sing at the Table - Adriana Trigiani
385. Happy Ever After - Nora Roberts
386. The Prince of Mist - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
387. The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds
388. Chosen - Chandra Hoffman
389. The Hypnotist - M.J. Rose
390. Bloody Crimes - James Swanson
391. Winter Bloom - Tara Heavey
392. At Home on Ladybug Farm - Donna Ball
393. Travels in a Thin Country - Sara Wheeler
394. The Pericles Commission - Gary Corby
395. Look Again - Lisa Scottoline
396. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming - Mike Brown
397. A Small Death in the Great Glen - A.D. Scott
398. Stealing Heaven - Elizabeth Scott
399. The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay - Siddharth Dhanvant Shangvi
400. Peril at Somner House - Joanna Challis
401. Bonobo Handshake - Vanessa Woods
402. Tales from the Yoga Studio - Rain Mitchell
403. Pray for Silence - Linda Castillo
404. The Truth About Delilah Blue - Tish Cohen
405. The Janus Stone - Elly Griffiths
406. The Good Psychologist - Noam Shpancer
407. Breaking Night - Liz Murray
408. The Sherlockian - Graham Moore
409. In the Bleak Midwinter - Julia Spencer-Fleming
410. The Inner Circle - Brad Meltzer
411. Trust - Kate Veitch
412. Cleopatra: A Life - Stacy Schiff
413. Murder in Plain Sight - Marta Perry
414. Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai
415. The Countess - Rebecca Johns
416. Side Jobs - Jim Butcher
417. A Fountain Filled With Blood - Julia Spencer-Fleming
418. To Have and to Kill - Mary Jane Clark
419. The Truth About Melody Browne - Lisa Jewell
420. Across the Universe - Beth Revis
421. Darkfever - Karen Marie Moning
422. The Convent - Panos Karnezis
423. The Weird Sisters - Eleanor Brown
424. Brewing Up a Business - Sam Calagione
425. State of the Onion - Julie Hyzy
426. The Moses Expedition - Juan Gomez-Jurado
427. Bloodfever - Karen Marie Moning
428. Faefever - Karen Marie Moning
429. These Things Hidden - Heather Gudenkauf
430. Bijou Roy - Ronica Dhar
431. Choker - Elizabeth Woods
432. The Art of Devotion - Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
433. The Devil’s Trill - Gerard Elias
434. Hail to the Chef - Julie Hyzy
435. Love in Complete Sentences - Mary E. Mitchell
436. The Disappearing Spoon - Sam Kean
437. The Tory Widow - Christine Blevins
438. Keys to the Castle - Donna Ball
439. Dreamfever - Karen Marie Moning
440. The Vaults - Toby Ball
441. A Cup of Friendship - Deborah Rodriguez
442. Riding the Ice Wind - Alastair Vere Nicoll
443. Ascendant - Diana Peterfreund
444. Out of the Deep I Cry - Julia Spencer-Fleming
445. The Other Life - Ellen Meister
446. Eggsecutive Orders - Julie Hyzy
447. Cracked Up To Be - Courtney Summers
448. Gimme a Call - Sarah Mlynowski
449. If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now - Clare LaZebnik
450. Astrid and Veronika - Linda Olsson

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