2010 Reading List

In case it’s not obvious, clicking on the book titles will bring you to my post mentioning or responding to the book, except in the case of the unblogged titles at the end of the list.

If you’ve spent any time thinking about your reading for 2010 or planning for 2011 reading, I’ll love your feedback. Comments always welcome!

1. Margaret Atwood, Year of the Flood

2. Carol O’Connell. Bone by Bone

3. Penelope Lively, Family Album

4. Carol Matthews & Liza Potvin, Dog Days

5. Toni Morrison, A Mercy

6. David Adams Richards, The Lost Highway

7. Ian Rankin, The Complaints

8. Richard Wagamese, A Ragged Company — re-read

9. Alan Bradley, Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

10. Jeffrey Deaver, Roadside Crosses

11. Eric Siblin, The Cello Suites

12. Clyde Ford, Precious Cargo

13. Seamus Heaney ed. and trans. Beowulf

14. Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

15. Kim Goldberg, Red Zone

16. Muriel Barbery, Gourmet Rhapsody

17. Karen Solie, Pigeon

18. Reginald Hill, A Cure for all Diseases

19. Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah’s Key

20. Nancy Huston, Fault Lines

21. Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

22. Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

23. Eva Hoffman, Appassionata

24. Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety

25. Bill Gaston, Sointula — re-read

26. Charles Dickens, ATale of Two Cities

27. Lee Child, Echo Burning

28. Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

29. Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest

30. Nicci French, Complicit

31. Jonathan Kellerman, Evidence

32. Anna Gavalda, Je l’Aimais

33. Dorothy Allison, Bastard out of Carolina

34. William Boyd,Restless

35. Philip Graham, The Moon Come to Earth

36. Michael Connelly, 9 Dragons

37. Andrew Davidson, Gargoyle

38. Diane Athill, Somewhere Towards the End

39. W.H. Collison, In the Wake of the War Canoe

30. Betty Lowman Carey,Bijaboji: North to Alaska by Oar

31. Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado

32. Elizabeth George, This Body of Death

33. Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo

34. Ethel Wilson, Love and Salt Water

35. Lise Genova, Still Alice

36. Quentin Jardine, Famous Last Words

37. Doug Saunders, Arrival City

38. Robert Hough, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark

39. Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown

40. Lorrie Moore, The Gate at the Stairs

41. Lee Child, Running Blind, unblogged

42. Alan Bradley, The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag, unblogged

43. Peter Robinson, Bad Boy, unblogged

44. David Bergen, The Matter with Morris, unblogged

45. Ilene Beckerman, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, unblogged

46. The 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology, unblogged

47. David Crystal, Txtng: The Gr8 Db8, unblogged

48. Thomas King, A Short History of Indians in Canada, unblogged

49. Academic Monograph on Canadian Elegy, blind-peer-reviewed for university press, unblogged

50 Louise Gluck, Village Life, unblogged

Had to work a bit to squeak up to 50 this year, which surprised me somewhat as I made up this list — it’s been a busier year, even, than I realized. And I decided that rather than work frantically and guiltily to catch up the book-blogging for the last couple of weeks, I’d just list, as above. Bergen’s The Matter with Morris really did deserve its own post, but we’re packing for a week away and when we get back we’ll be well into January and I’ll have 3 or 4 2011 books to blog. Accepting limitations seems like a reasonable New Year’s resolution, and I’m starting NOW.

3 Comments

  1. Tiffany
    2 January 2011 / 10:21 pm

    I managed to lose track of my reading, but my incomplete list has 40 books on it, so I'm pleased I managed to squeeze at least that many in – and of course that doesn't include my regular reading of yoga texts and cookbooks (which I read like novels …). I haven't even thought about reading for the year ahead, but maybe I will fill some gaps. And I will be referring back to this blog for ideas for what to read also!

  2. Mardel
    3 January 2011 / 5:10 pm

    Nice list. Several books on your list must go on my list for the new year. Such a trendsetter, you.

  3. materfamilias
    4 January 2011 / 4:21 am

    Tiffany: I realize that I've given over a bit more time than I should to DVD-viewing, mostly because I can easily knit and watch . . . not sure if I'm going to try to change that or not. Reading the latest Kate Atkinson right now — Got Up Early . . . I seem to remember it was you who alerted me to its release. Not quite as captivated by any single character as I was in When Will There Be, but enjoying it nonetheless.
    Mardel: You just as often alert me to books I should read and trends I should know about . . . one day, an IRL book discussion, you, me, and Tiffany, okay??

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