What I Read in 2010
* - books I really liked


Previous Years
2009     2008     2007     2006     2005

 
  December
Memoirs of Hadrian. Marguerite Yourcenar (abandoned)
Sunset Park. Paul Auster
Bad Things Happen. Harry Dolan (abandoned)

November
Painted Ladies. Robert Parker
The Fifth Floor. Michael Harvey (abandoned)
By Nightfall. Michael Cunningham
Stuff White People Like. Christian Lander
Echo House. Ward Just
The Little Book of Economics. Greg Ip
2666. Roberto Bolano (abandoned)
The Golden Mean. Annabel Lyon (abandoned)

October
Mr. Peanut. Adam Ross (abandoned)
The Pain Chronicles. Melanie Thernstrom
The Sparrow. Mary Doria Russell
The Chicago Way. Michael Harvey

September
Freedom. Jonathan Franzen
Gentlemen & Players. Joanne Harris
Crampton Hodnet. Barbara Pym
The Four Fingers of Death. Rick Moody
Teach Us To Sit Still. Tim Parks
 
*
Hamlet's Blackberry. William Powers
Netherland. Joseph O'Neill

August
Long for this World: The Strange Science of Immortality. Jonathan Weiner (abandoned)
Tinkers. Paul Harding (abandoned)

Super Sad True Love Story. Gary Shteyngart (abandoned)
Excellent Women
. Barbara Pym
 
*
Crime and Punishment. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pevear & Volokhonsky translation - and the translation really does make a difference) 
*

July
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Nicholas Carr 
*
Unlearning Meditation. Jason Siff
The Kindly Ones. Jonathan Littell (abandoned)
Blame. Michelle Huneven

June
The Passage. Justin Cronin
The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff. Joseph Epstein
 
*
The Imperfectionists. Tom Rachman
People of the Book. Geraldine Brooks
The Healing of America. T. R. Reid
The Heart of Power. David Blumenthal & James Morone

The Schopenhauer Cure. Irvin Yalom
The Heights. Peter Hedges
Split Image. Robert B. Parker

May
Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction. Christopher Janaway
For Whom the Bell Tolls. Ernest Hemingway *
The Ask
. Sam Lipsyte *

April
The Hole We're In. Gabrielle Zevin
Next. James Hymes
Model Home. Eric Puchner
Stoner. John Williams *

March
Horns. Joe Hill
The Privileges. Jonathan Dee
The Girl on the Boat. P. G. Wodehouse
Losing the News. Alex Jones

February
Swimming. Nicola Keegan
The Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins

January
How Markets Fail. John Cassidy
Blue Boy. Rakesh Satyal
Our Story Begins. Tobias Wolff *
The Professional. Robert B. Parker
Freud. Jonathan Lear