Friday, January 28, 2011

What I Actually Read in 2010

Last year I had a goal to read fifty books, and I actually succeeded!  At the beginning of the year, I made a list of books that I wanted to read.  If you are interested, here is the original List, and the list below is what I actually read.
     I read many good books in 2010, but the top six, (in order of reading),that stuck with me the most were:


1.  A Virtuous Woman
2.  The Book Thief
3.  The Sky Is Everywhere
4.   Interpreter of Maladies
5.  Let the great World Spin
6.  The Help
1.  Strange Red Cow And Other Curious Classified ads From The Past   By Sara Bader 
2.  The Memory Keeper’s Daughter   By Kim Edwards
3.  Ellen Foster   by Kaye Gibbons
4.  A Virtuous Woman  By Kaye Gibbons
5.  Time Sex and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped  Human Evolution By Leonard Shlain
6.  Shutter Island   By Dennis Lehane
7.  Prayer   By Spencer W. Kimball
8.  The Five Love Languages For Singles   By Gary Chapman
9.  The Pleasure Of My Company  By Steve Martin
10.  Northanger Abbey By Jane Austin
11.  The Book Thief By Marcus Zusak
12.  Like Normal People  By Robert Myers
13.  The Blue Castle   By  L. M. Montgomery
14.  The Elegance Of The Hedgehog   By Muriel Barbery
15.  The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society   By Mary Ann Schafer & Annie Barrows
16.  The Sky Is Everywhere  By Jandy Nelson
17.  Before I Fall   By Lauren Oliver
18.  Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story   By Isabelle Gillies
19.  The Case Of The Missing Marquess   By Nancy Springer
20.  The Hunger Games   By Suzanne Collins
21.  Catching Fire   By Suzanne Collins
22.  Looking For Alaska   By John Green
23.  My Left Foot By Christy Brown
24.  Going Bovine   By Libba Bray
25.  One For The Money   By Janet Evanovitch
26.  The Book Of Mormon: Another Testament Of Jesus Christ  By The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
27.  Two For The Dough   By Janet Evanovitch
28.  The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales   By Oliver Sacks
29.  Packing For Mars: The Curious Science Of Life In The Void   By Mary Roach
30.  Mockingjay   By Suzanne Collins
31.  The Financial Lives Of The Poets   By Jess Walter
32.  The Believers   By ZoĆ« Heller
33.  Let The Great World Spin   By Colum McCann
34.  Behind My Eyes   By Li-Young Lee
35.  Interpreter Of Maladies   By Jhumpa Lahiri
36.  The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy  By Douglas Adams  
37.  The Magician’s Assistant   By Ann Patchett
38.  The Patron Saint Of Liars   By Ann Patchett
39.  The Handmaid’s Tale   By Margret Atwood
40.  Room   By  Emma Donoghue
41.  Life Of Pi   By Yann Martel
42.  Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows   By J. K. Rowling
43.  The Golden Compass   By Phillip Pullman
44.  The Subtle Knife   By Phillip Pullman
45.  The Amber Spyglass   By Phillip Pullman
46.  The Help   By Kathryn Stockett
47.   The Phantom Tollbooth   By Norton Juster
48.  Taft   By Ann Patchett
49.  This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies Of  Remarkable Men And Women   By Jay Allison and Dan Gediman
50.  From The Outside Looking In: Short Stories For LDS Teenagers   Edited By Chris Crowe