Archives: Books Read in 2010

January

• The Prince of Frogtown, by Rick Bragg (A-)
• Committed, by Elizabeth Gilbert (B-)
• The Unit, by Ninni Holmqvist (B+)

February

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson (reviewed in brief) (B+)

March

• Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer (reviewed in brief) (B)
• The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown (reviewed in brief) (D+)
• Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger (reviewed in brief) (C+)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer (reviewed in brief) (A-)
• The Girl Who Played with Fire, by Stieg Larsson (C)

April

• The Tale of Halcyon Crane, by Wendy Webb (C-)
• Stone’s Fall, by Iain Pears (B-)
• Falling Apart in One Piece, by Stacy Morrison (because  friend suggested it) (C+)

May

• Same Kind of Different As Me, by Ron Hall (book club) (C+)
• The Little Giant of Aberdeen County, by Tiffany Baker (C+)
• Girls in Trucks, by Katie Crouch (book club) (C+)
• No Impact Man, by Colin Beaven (C)
• The Air We Breathe, by Andrea Barrett (B-)

June

• Spanking Shakespeare, by Jake Wizner (yes, it’s for teens) (B+)
• The Butterfly House, by Marcia Preston (C)
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart (yes, this is also for teens) (B+)
• A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick (B+)

July

• Paper Towns, by John Green (yes, also for teens) (A-)
• My Wife’s Affair, by Nancy Woodruff (D+)
• Crazy Love, by Leslie Morgan Steiner (for book club) (B)

August

• Big Machine, by Victor LaValle (C+)
• Somebody Else’s Daughter, by Elizabeth Brundage (D+)
• The Summer We Read Gatsby, by Danielle Ganek (C)

September

• Fear the Worst, by Linwood Barclay (D+)
• The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, by Michelle Young-Stone (C+)
• Snowflower & The Secret Fan, by Lisa See (B+)

October

• The Lonely Polygamist, by Brady Udall (B+)
• The Middle Place, by Kelly Corrigan (in honor of breast cancer awareness month) (A-)
• The Angel’s Game, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (C-)
• Eaarth, by Bill McKibben (B+)
• Stiltsville, by Susanna Daniel (B+)
• Olive Kitterage, by Elizabeth Strout (A)

November

• Dry, by Augusten Burroughs (B-)
• American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld (B+)

December

• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, by Helen Simonson (B-)
• The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant (A-)
• Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, by David Sedaris (B)
• Love in the Present Tense, by Catherine Ryan Hyde (A-)

Books I Started & Abandoned This Year (Either I Suck or They Do)

• Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities, by Amy Stewart
• The White Queen, by Philippa Gregory
• One Thousand White Women, by Jim Fergus
• The Raw Shark Texts, by Steven Hall
• Peony In Love, by Lisa See
• Anthropology of an American Girl, by Hilary Thayer Hamann