I talk about books a lot, even in posts that aren’t ostensibly about books I’ve been reading. Since many of you often ask me for recommendations (“What should I read next?”), I thought I’d recap books I mentioned in 2010. Whether fiction or nonfiction, all are titles I’ve read and enjoyed; it’s up to you to look them up and decide whether they’re right for you. In case you’re interested, each is linked to the post in which it appeared.

2010 Recap:

44 Scotland Street series (Alexander McCall Smith)
An Episode of Sparrows (Rumer Godden)
Artist’s Way, The (Julia Cameron)
Bell for Adano, A (John Hersey)
Big Picture, The (Jenny B. Jones)
Blink (Malcolm Gladwell)
Chicago Manual of Style, The
Dark of the Moon (Sara Teasdale)
Dave Robicheaux series (James Lee Burke)
Dear and Glorious Physician (Taylor Caldwell)
Dream of Scipio, The (Iain Pears)
Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Egyptian, The (Mika Waltari)
Ellen Foster (Kaye Gibbons)
Emma (Jane Austen)
Exodus (Leon Uris)
English Through the Ages (William Brohaugh)
Falling Through Space (Ellen Gilchrist)
Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist, The (Thomas McCormack)
Flame and Shadow (Sara Teasdale)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
Green Years, The (A. J. Cronin)
Griffin and Sabine series (Nick Bantock)
Handmaid’s Tale, The (Margaret Atwood)
Harry Potter series (J. K. Rowling)
Hawaii (James Michener)
High Fidelity (Nick Hornby)
Hinges of History series (Thomas Cahill)
His Dark Materials series (Philip Pullman)
Historian, The (Elizabeth Kostova)
Hobbit, The (J. R. R. Tolkien)
I’m So Sure (Jenny B. Jones)
Isabel Dalhousie series (Alexander McCall Smith)
Just Between You and Me (Jenny B. Jones)
Kite Runner, The (Khaled Hosseini)
Kitty Foyle (Christopher Morley)
Kon-Tiki (Thor Heyerdahl)
Letter to Daniel (Fergal Keane)
Letters Home (Fergal Keane)
Liar’s Club, The (Mary Karr)
Longitude (Dava Sobel)
Magician’s Elephant, The (Kate Di Camillo)
Marjorie Morningstar (Herman Wouk)
Maus (Art Spiegelman)
Mrs. ’Arris Goes to Paris (Paul Gallico)
Nine Emotional Lives of Cats, The (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson)
No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series (Alexander McCall Smith)
Once and Future King, The (T. H. White)
One Day (David Nicholls)
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
Possession (A. S. Byatt)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Question of Attraction, A (David Nicholls)
Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)
Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus in Dictionary Form
Slang and Euphemism (Richard A. Spears)
Swan Thieves, The (Elizabeth Kostova)
Tale of Two Cities, A (Charles Dickens)
Time Traveler’s Wife, The (Audrey Niffenegger)
Traffic (Tom Vanderbilt)
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (Betty Smith)
Venetian Affair, A (Andrea di Robilant)
Virtuous Woman, A (Kaye Gibbons)
When Elephants Weep (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson)
Winthrop Woman, The (Anya Seton)
Year in the World, A (Frances Mayes)

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