2010 -- A Book Year in Review

Another year has come to an end, and a few more books have been read.

This is what I accomplished this year:

1. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
2. Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill by Maud Hart Lovelace
3. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
4. Sugar by Bernice McFadden
5. Murder at Longbourne by Tracy Kiely
6. Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, by Maud Hart Lovelace
7. Skin and other Stories by Roald Dahl
8. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
9. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
10. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by
11. Lift by Kelly Corrigan
12. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
13. The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran
14. The Secret of the Old Clock (#1 Nancy Drew) by Carolyn Keene
15. Glorious by Bernice McFadden
16. The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
17. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
18. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
19. A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh
20. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
21. My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
22. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt
23. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
24. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
25. The Icing on the Cupcake by Jennifer Ross
26. Embers by Sandor Marai
27. Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
28. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
29. Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman
30. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly McNees
31. Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks
32. Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
33. Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson
34. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
35. A Thousand Sisters by Lisa Shannon
36. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
37. One Day by David Nicholls
38. Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
39. Still Alice by Lisa Genova
40. The Sweet By and By by Todd Johnson
41. Wildflower by Mark Seal
42. The Many Secret Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
43. The Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans
44. Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
45. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
46. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
47. Zoo Story by Thomas French
48. True Grit by Charles Portis
49. Little Heathens by Mildren Armstrong Kalish

Did Not Finish
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard
The Invisible Mountain by Carolina de Robertis

I must admit, this was not a banner year of great reads, only a few deserve any further mentioning:

My favorites of the year:

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt (juv fiction)

One Crazy Summer by Rita Willimas Garcia (juv fiction)

Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel (read along)

Bad Mother by Aylete Waldman

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Wildflower by Mark Seal

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (read along)

True Grit by Charles Portis (movie was AWESOME too)

Challenges:

I committed to and completed ONE challenge in 2010 -- Women Unbound:

NON FICTION:
Nine Parts of Desire, by Geraldine Brooks
A Thousand Sisters by Lisa Shannon
Wildflower by Mark Seal


FICTION:
Sugar by Bernice McFadden
Glorious by Bernice McFadden
My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

I didn't read as many this year as last, and I hold my volunteer position in the PTA personally responsible.  Hopefully, once my service is done next spring, I can increase my reading hours.

Happy New Year everyone -- I hope 2011 is full of many literary accomplishments.