2010

74 books read 

The number in parenthesis is the rating given to the book.  I use the GoodReads system. 

1 - didn't like it

2 - it was ok

3 - liked it

4 - really liked it

5 - it was amazing    

January

1. How I Write by Janet Evanovich (4)
2. Ordinary People by Judith Guest (5)
3. The Host by Stephanie Meyer (5)
4. Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide by Christopher Lucas (2)
5. The Gunslinger: Dark Tower Series #1 by Stephen King (3)
6. Beach Music by Pat Conroy (2)

February

1. The Drawing of the Three: Dark Tower Series II by Stephen King (4)
2. By Their Own Hand: Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideas in Adolescents by Keith Rodham
3. The Wastelands: Dark Tower Series III by Stephen King (4)
4. Wizard and Glass: Dark Tower IV by Stephen King (4)

March

1. Hold Tight by Harlan Coben (4)

April

1. Wolves of the Calla: Dark Tower Series V by Stephen King (5)
2. The Worst Loss: How Families Heal From the Death of A Child by Barbara Rosof (4)
3. The Alchemist's Daughter by Katherine McMahon (4)
4. After the Death of a Child: Living With the Loss Through the Years by Ann Finkbeiner (4)
5. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (4)
6. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (1)
7. Song of Susannah: Dark Tower Series VI by Stephen King (5)
8. The Dark Tower: Series VII by Stephen King (5)

May

1. Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber (4)
2. A Good Yarn: Blossom Street Series #2 by Debbie Macomber (4)
3. Lost and Found by Jacqueline Sheehan (3)
4. Life After the Death of My Son by Dennis Apple (4)
5. Legend of A Suicide by David Vann (3)
6. The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood (4)
7. The Negotiator by Frederick Forsyth (4)
8. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (1)
9. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (2)
10. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (5)

June

1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson (4)
2. Executive Privilege by Philip Margolin 
3. Back on Blossom Street #3 by Debbie Macomber (3)
4. The Passage by Justin Cronin (4)
5. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (2)
6. After Suicide by John Hewett (2)
7. The Grieving Garden: Living With the Death Of a Child by Suzanne Redfern and Susan Gilbert (4)
8. An Unquiet Mind by Kay Jamison (2)

July

1. Somebody Else's Daughter by Elizabeth Brundage (3)
2. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (3)
3. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende (4)
4. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (5)
5. Reading Like A Writer by Francine Prose (4)
6. The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold (3)
7. Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (4)
8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (5)
9. The Writer On Her Work Ed by Janet Sternburg (2)
10. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (2)

August

1. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick (4)
2. Into The Woods by Tana French (4)
3. The Journal Keeper by Phyllis Theroux (4)
4. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (2)
5. Summer on Blossom Street #5 by Debbie Macomber (3)
6. A Perfect Spy by John LeCarre (5)
7. Women Write: A Mosaic of Women's Voices In Fiction, Poetry, Memoir and Essay ed by Susan Cahill (4)

September

1. A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Woman Writers form Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proux by Elaine Showalter (4)
2. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (5)
3. The Likeness by Tana French (3)
4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (4)
5. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (4)
6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2)
7. Brick Lane by Monica Ali (2)

October

1. The Once and Future King by T.H.White (5)
2. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (3)
3. How To Read Novels Like A Professor by Thomas Foster (3)
4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Vol I by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (4)
5. The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White (5)
6. LeMorte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory (3)
7. Beyond Tears by Ellen Mitchell (4)
8. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (4)

November

1. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (3)
2. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John LeCarre (4)

December

1. The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim (4)
2. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (4)
3. Sea of Change by Jeremy Page (3)