2010 Reading List

I've got lots of Christmas pictures to sift through and post, but I just finished my first book of 2011, so it's time to start a new list! My goal for 2010 was 50 books, which I surpassed, but ended up reading a number of books that weren't exactly written for adults. What can I say, there is some good writing going on out there for young adults.


1- I'm a Stranger Here Myself- Bill Bryson
2- A Long Way From Chicago- Richard Peck
3- Ya-Yas in Bloom- Rebecca Wells
4- A Long Fatal Love Chase- Louisa May Alcott
5- The Heretic's Daughter- Kathleen Kent
6- The Lacuna- Barbara Kingsolver
7- Real Murders- Charlaine Harris
8- The Return- Victoria Hislop
9- A Bone to Pick- Charlaine Harris
10- Three Bedrooms, One Corpse- Charlaine Harris
11- The Julius House- Charlaine Harris
12- Dead Over Heels- Charlaine Harris
13- A Fool and His Honey- Charlaine Harris
14- Last Scene Alive- Charlaine Harris
15- Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson
16- Poppy Done to Death- Charlaine Harris
17- The Fasting Girl- Michelle Stacey
18- Little Altars Everywhere- Rebecca Wells
19- Atonement- Ian McEwan
20- The Host- Stephenie Meyer
21- Comfort Me with Apples- Ruth Reichl
22- Nanny Returns- Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
23- Anne of Green Gables- LM Montgomery
24- City of Bones- Casandra Clare
25- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle- David Wroblewski
26- Dead in the Family- Charlaine Harris
27- Marked- P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
28- City of Ashes- Cassandra Clare
29- City of Glass- Cassandra Clare
30- The Gates- John Connolly
31- Chosen- P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
32- Hunted- P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
33- Anne of Avonlea- LM Montgomery
34- Anne of the Island- LM Montgomery
35- The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers- Thomas Mullen
36- The Penderwicks- Jeanne Birdsall
37- The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch- Joseph Delaney
38- The Last Apprentice: Curse of the Bane- Joseph Delaney
39- Snowbound- Blake Crouch
40- The Last Apprentice: Night of the Soul Stealer- Joseph Delaney
41- Jane Austen Ruined My Life- Beth Pattillo
42- Mr Darcy Broke My Heart- Beth Pattillo
43- The Goose Girl- Shannon Hale
44- Mockingjay- Suzanne Collins
45- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate- Jacqueline Kelly
46- Enna Burning- Shannon Hale
47- The Girl Who Fell From the Sky- Heidi W. Durrow
48- The Crying Tree- Naseem Rakha
49- An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England- Brock Clarke
50- River Secrets- Shannon Hale
51- Forest Born- Shannon Hale
52- Fairest- Gail Carson Levine
53- Raven Stole the Moon- Garth Stein
54- A Blessing on the Moon- Joseph Skibell
55- Little Princes- Conor Grennan
56- Book of a Thousand Days- Shannon Hale

As usual there are books on this list that I didn't particularly like. There is also another group of books that didn't make it to this list because I disliked them so much I never finished reading them, (a rare thing for me).

Here are my top 5 picks from 2010 (in no particular order):

The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers- Thomas Mullen
Comfort Me with Apples- Ruth Reichl
The Heretic's Daughter- Kathleen Kent
Little Princes- Conor Grennan
The Return- Victoria Hislop

My goal for 2011 is once again 50 books, but with the added challenge that at least 5 need to be classics.