Thursday, December 30, 2010

2010 My Year in Books: Total Read 133...

January 
1. Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert
2. Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life by Tony Dungy
3. Religious Experiences and Journal of Jarena Lee: A Preachin' Woman by Jarena Lee

February 
4. Birthing the Sermon: Women Preachers on the Creative Process by Jana Childers
5. One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular by Abigail Pogrebin
6. Growth in Partnership by Letty Russell
7.  From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens by 50 Cent
8.  Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
9.  Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
10.  Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
11. The Things We Do For Love by Kristin Hannah
12. Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware; 40 years of Letters in Black and White by Anne Firor Scott
13. Little Bee by Chris Cleave 


March
14. The Associate - John Grisham
15. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
16. My Life in France - Julia Child
17. The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B DuBois
18. Balancing Act - Meera Godbole Krishnamurthy
19. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
20. Notebooks - Tennessee Williams
21. From Old Notebooks - Evan Lavender-Smith
22. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman 


April
23. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
24. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
25. Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
26. Dark Testament and Other Poems by Pauli Murray 
27. Finders Keepers by Karin Kallmaker 
28. The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder 
29. The Chosen by Chaim Potok
30. Serena by Ron Rash
31. Look Again by Lisa Scottoline 
32. Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
33. On Writing by Stephen King
34. Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley B. Sullenberger
35. Song Yet Sung by James McBride
36. Just Hospitality by Letty Russell 
37. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer 
38. Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics by Margaret Farley 
39. Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of Church by Letty Russell 

May
40. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
41.  Empire Falls by Richard Russo
42. Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palestine/Israel by Alice Walker
43. Morrie: In His Own Words by Morrie Schwartz
44. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
45. Cop on Loan by Jeannie Watt
46. Wildflower Bride by Mary Connealy
47. The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell
48. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levitthan
49. I'm looking Through To You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir by Jennifer Finney Boylan
50. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
51. The Opposite of Me by Sarah Pekkanen
52. Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffen


June
53. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
54. Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
55. Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of An Ordinary Women by Lisa Scottoline
56. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella by Stephanie Meyer
57. The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of A Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx
58. When Chicago Ruled Baseball: The Cubs-White Sox World Series of 1906 by Bernard A. Weisberger
59. March by Geraldine Brooks
60. Orange is the New Black: My Year in A Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
61. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
62. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
63. The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
64. Snow Apples by Mary Razzell

65. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

July
66. Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer John Grisham
67. Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever Mem Fox
68. Uglies Scott Westerfeld
69. Dead Man Walking Sister Helen Prejean
70. The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugeides
71. Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression Brooke Shields 
72. The Help Kathryn Stockett
73. Shadows on Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman 
74. Stolen Innocence: My Story Growing up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall
75. Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
76. Specials by Scott Westerfeld
77. Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs
78. Firstlight: The Early Inspirational WRitings of Sue Monk Kidd by Sue Monk Kidd
79. Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs
80. Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women by Alexa Albert 
81. The Running Man by Stephen King
82. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

August 
83. Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs
84. Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
85. Life, After by Sarah Darer Littman
86. Forever in Blue by Ann Brashares
87. Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and redemption in Souther Appalachia by Dennis Covington
88. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
89. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
90. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collings
91. The Summer Before by Ann M. Martin
92. Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner

September
93. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
94. First Comes Love, Then Come Malaria: How A Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life By Eve Brown-Waite
95. Purge by Sarah Darer Littman
96. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
97. The Horseman's Secret by Jeannie Watt
98. Trumpet: A Novel by Jackie Kay
99. Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell 
100. Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner by Dean Karzazes 



101. Once a Runner by John L. Parker Jr.
102. Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster
103. Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
104. Looking for Alaska by John Green



October
105. Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
106. Jesus Land by Julia Sheeres
107. The Ivy by Lauren Kunze
108. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
109. Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy by Thomas Beatie


November
110. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
111. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
112. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
113. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
114. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
115. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
116. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
117. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
118. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
119. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling


December 
120. Let it Snow by John Green et al
121. Call Me Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber
122. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
123. Finding Noel by Richard Paul Evans
124. A Christmas Caroline: A Novel by Kyle Smith
125. The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn
126. Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story by Wally Lamb
127. A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck
128. Evensong by Gail Godwin
129. Christmas Jars by Jason Wright
130. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
131. The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
132. The Confession by John Grisham
133. The Perfect Love Song by Patti Callahan Henry 

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