Saturday
Jan012011
2010 in books

With little comment, and in no particular order, the books that fed my brain between January and December 2010 (favorites bolded):
- Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nick Flynn
- Sacred Games, Vikram Chanda
- Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
- Lush Life, Richard Price
- Sunset Park, Paul Auster
- The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
- Like Life, Lorrie Moore
- Lit, Mary Karr
- Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
- Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
- Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker
- Rumpus Women, compilation
- C, Tom McCarthy
- The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz
- My Dog Tulip, JR Ackerley
- Make Believe, Joanna Scott
- The Manikin, Joanna Scott
- The Black Minutes, Martin Solares
- Half Life, Shelley Jackson
- The Places in Between, Rory Stewart
- Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
- A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert
- Lowboy, John Wray
- You Are Here, Meenakshi Madhavan
- The White Mary, Kira Salak
- Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk
- The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafron
- Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
- Fugitives and Refugees, Chuck Palahniuk
- The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon
- The Help, Kathryn Stockett
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson
- Room, Emma Donoghue
- The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Thomas Mullen
- Possible Side Effects, Augusten Burroughs
- A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
- Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane
- Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
- The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
- Bad Marie, Marcy Dermansky
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
- Bright-Sided, Barbara Ehrenreich
- Ghosted, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
- Kapitoil, Teddy Wayne
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa
- The Coast of Akron, Adrienne Miller
- The Vagrants, Yiyun Li
- Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid
- The Territory of Men, Joelle Fraser
- Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault
- The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
- Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Geoff Dyer
- The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
- Await Your Reply, Dan Chaon
- War, Sebastian Junger
- A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
- The Ask, Sam Lipsyte
- Little Bee, Chris Cleave