2010 Books

by Kim on January 23, 2011

December 2010

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach (2 Dec 10) (nonfiction)
The City and the City by China Mieville (7 Dec 10) (fiction)
The Metropolis Case by Matthew Gallaway (9 Dec 10) (fiction)
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown (12 Dec 10) (fiction)
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (14 Dec 10) (fiction)
Year of Our Lord by T.R. Pearson and Langdon Clay (21 Dec 10) (nonfiction)
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (26 Dec 10) (nonfiction)

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (8 Nov 10) (fiction)
And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maria Kalman (12 Nov 10) (nonfiction)
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (18 Nov 10) (literary journalism)
The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel by Paulo Coelho (20 Nov 10) (fiction/graphic novel)
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans (21 Nov 10) (fiction/short stories)
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (22 Nov 10) (fiction)
How Football Explains America by Sal Paolantonio (25 Nov 10) (nonfiction)
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles (25 Nov 10) (fiction)
The Genius Factory by David Plotz (27 Nov 10) (nonfiction)
Guests of the Sheik by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (29 Nov 10) (nonfiction)

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (4 Oct 10) (fiction)
Hamlet’s Blackberry by William Powers (7 Oct 10) (nonfiction)
Strange Bedfellows by Howard Richler (9 Oct 10) (nonfiction)
Food Fray by Lisa H. Weasel (9 Oct 10) (nonfiction)
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (9 Oct 10) (nonfiction)
Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf (10 Oct 10) (nonfiction)
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer by Warren St. John (17 Oct 10) (literary journalism)
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris (18 Oct 10) (fiction)
The Mermaid’s Pendant by Leann Neal Reilly (23 Oct 10) (fiction)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (28 Oct 10) (literary journalism)
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (31 Oct 10) (fiction)

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (1 Sept 10) (YA fiction)
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Jennifer Steil (7 Sept 10) (memoir)
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Audiobook):
A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart (13 Sept 10) (humor)
Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (17 Sept 10) (memoir)
Love is the Higher Law by David Levithan (18 Sept 10) (YA fiction)
Candy Freak by Steve Almond (21 Sept 10) (literary journalism)
The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean (26 Sept 10) (literary journalism)
The Writing Class by Jincy Willett (28 Sept 10) (fiction)

Drowned Ammet by Diana Wynne Jones (02 Aug 10) (YA fantasy)
The Angel of Grozny by Åsne Seierstad (03 Aug 10) (literary journalism)
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (07 Aug 10) (fiction)
Coop by Michael Perry (11 Aug 10) (memoir)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (16 Aug 10) (memoir)
News to Me by Laurie Hertzel (19 Aug 10) (memoir)
Better Off by Eric Brende (20 Aug 10) (memoir)
One and the Same by Abigail Pogrebin (21 Aug 10) (literary journalism)
Transmetropolitan, Vol 1 by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson (22 Aug 10) (fiction/comic book)
The Wild Vine by Todd Kliman (25 Aug 10) (literary journalism)
The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley (28 Aug 10) (fiction)
Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay (29 Aug 10) (fiction)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (31 Aug 10) (YA fiction)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (31 Aug 10) (YA fiction)

The Big Year by Mark Obmascik (01 July 10) (literary journalism)
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (02 July 10) (memoir/travelogue) (audiobook)
Denial: A Memoir of Terror by Jessica Stern (03 July 10) (fiction)
Finny by Justin Kramon (04 July 10) (fiction)
The Necklace by Cheryl Jarvis (05 July 10) (literary journalism, audiobook)
Minority Report and Other Stories by Philip K. Dick (12 July 10) (short stories, audiob0ok)
The Nuclear Age by Tim O’Brien (12 July 10) (fiction)
Nine Humorous Tales by Anton Chekhov (13 July 10) (short stories)
The Art of Time in Memoir by Sven Birkerts (16 July 10) (nonfiction)
Everything is Going to be Great by Rachel Shukert (22 July 10) (memoir)
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (25 July 10) (fiction)
Cart and Cwidder by Diana Wynne Jones (26 July 10) (YA fantasy)
Bottled and Sold by Peter H. Gleick (27 July 10) (nonfiction)

Unhooked by Laura Sessions Stepp (01 June 10) (nonfiction, audiobook)
The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman (05 June 10) (literary journalism)
Northern Lights by Tim O’Brien (09 June 10) (fiction)
The Lost City of Z by David Grann (14 June 10) (literary journalism, audiobook)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (15 June 10) (fiction)
An Education by Lynne Barber (17 June 10) (memoir)
Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson (18 June 10) (memoir/travelogue, graphic novel)
Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle (19 June 10) (memoir/travelogue, graphic novel)
Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien (19 June 10) (fiction)
The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors by Michelle Young-Stone (21 June 2010) (fiction)
Getting In by Karen Stabiner (23 June 10) (fiction)
The Bucolic Plague by Josh Kilmer-Purcell (26 June 10) (memoir)
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman (28 June 10) (nonfiction)

This Day in the Life by Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey, and B.K. Rakhra (2 May 2010) (nonfiction)
Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden (6 May 2010) (memoir)
The M-Factor by Lynne C. Lancaster and David Stillman (8 May 2010) (nonfiction)
The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar (9 May 2010) (nonfiction)
Newjack by Ted Conover (14 May 2010) (literary journalism)
Looking for Alaska by John Green (15 May 2010) (YA fiction)
A Few Seconds on Panic by Stefan Fatsis (22 May 2010) (audiobook)
If I Die In a Combat Zone by Tim O’Brien (27 May 2010) (fiction)
Everything is Broken by Emma Larkin (30 May 2010) (literary journalism)

Invictus by John Carlin (10 April 2010) (literary journalism)
The Fiddler’s Gun by A.S. Peterson (11 April 2010) (historical fiction)
The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Connor McNees (13 April 2010) (fiction)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (17 April 2010) (fiction)
Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America by Gail Pool (22 April 2010) (nonfiction)
The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson (25 April 2010) (travel memoir)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (02 Mar 10) (literary journalism)
The Magicians by Lev Grossman (08 Mar 10) (fiction)
Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt (12 Mar 10) (memoir)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (19 Mar 10) (fiction)
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson (19 Mar 10) (literary journalism)
Honeymoon in Tehran by Azadeh Moaveni (21 Mar 10) (memoir)
Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, & Power by James McGrath Morris (26 Mar 10) (nonfiction)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (27 Mar 10) (fiction)

The Blind Side by Michael Lewis (01 Feb 10) (literary journalism)
“Socialism is Great!” A Worker’s Memoir of the New China by Lijia Zhang (06 Feb 10) (memoir)
The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum (09 Feb 10) (literary journalism)
Hunger: An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell (26 Feb 10) (nonfiction)

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (02 Jan 10) (fiction)
Dream Girl by Lauren Mechling (03 Jan 10) (YA fiction)
Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda (15 Jan 10) (nonfiction)
Dream Life by Lauren Mechling (18 Jan 10) (YA fiction)
The Great Starvation Experiment by Todd Tucker (23 Jan 10) (nonfiction)