2010 Reading List

• A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Dawn French
• Air Kisses, Zoe Foster
• Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
• Light Boxes, Shane Jones
• Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Sophic Kinsella
• Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Sophie Kinsella
• The Family Man, Elinor Lipman
• Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
• Asterix and the Black Gold, Goscinny and Uderzo
• The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
• Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella
• Squirrel Meets Chipmunk, David Sedaris
• Sleep No More, Greg Iles
• The Radleys, Matt Haig
• The Third Twin, Ken Follett
• Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
• GTO volume 23, Tohru Fujisawa
• The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
• The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
• Ramona's World, Beverly Cleary
• The Sandman (Endless Nights), Neil Gaiman
• Becoming Strangers, Louise Dean
• The News Where You Are, Catherine Flynn
• Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
• Beat the Reaper, Josh Bazell
• Turkish Gambit, Boris Akunin
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck
• The Bride Stripped Bare, Nikki Gemmell
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, MA Shaffer & A Burrows
• Daddy Long Legs, Jean Webster
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
• Spellmans Strike Again, Lisa Lutz
• Chart Throb, Ben Elton
• A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
• Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Paul Torday
• You Don't Have to be Evil to Work Here But it Helps, Tom Holt
• Eric, Shaun Tan
• Two Caravans, Marina Lewycka
• The Truth About Melody Browne, Lisa Jewell
• Thanks for the Memories, Cecelia Ahern
• Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith
• The Monday Night Cooking Club, Erica Bauermeister
• A Friend of the Family, Lisa Jewell
• 31 Dream Street, Lisa Jewell
• Just Courage, Gary Haugen
• The Lives of Christopher Chant, Diana Wynne-Jones,
• Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
• Isabel's Bed, Elinor Lipman
• Les Miserables (volume 1), Victor Hugo
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
• My Latest Grievance, Elinor Lipman
• The Girl who Stirred the Hornet's Nest
• Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett
• The Girl Who Played with Fire
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• Revenge of the Spellmans, Lisa Lutz
• Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
• This is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper
• The Case of the Imaginery Detective, Karen Joy Fowler
• Fly Me to the Moon, Alyson Noel
• The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas
• The Glorious Nosebleed, Edward Gorey
• Finger Lickin' Fifteen, Janet Evanovich
• The Book of a Thousand Days, Shannon Hale
• People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
• Stardust, Neil Gaiman (re-read)

Standouts: Light Boxes (Shane Jones), The Millennium Series (Stieg Larsson), The Sandman (Endless Nights, graphic novel), Neil Gaiman, Confederacy of Dunces re-read (John Kennedy Toole), Family Man (Elinor Lipman), Les Miserable (Victor Hugo), Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)

Bombs: Fly Me to the Moon (Alison Noel), Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (MA Shaffer & A Burrows), The Case of the Imaginery Detective (Karen Joy Fowler), Air Kisses (Zoe Foster)

... which begs the question: why do I keep going back to chicklit?

Special Mentions: The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery), Beat the Reaper (Josh Bazell), anything by Alexander McCall Smith.

Hmm, there's very little in the way of non-fiction, or even self-improvement type books or the ones that expand your mind. Shame on me.

Total: 69