My New Year's Resolution for 2010 was to average a book a week for a year. I managed to start and finish 52 books between January and December, and started but discarded a handful of other books as well. We won't count those. Here's a list of everything I read. The ones with asterisks are books I especially loved.
The Help*
College Girl
The Audacity to Win*
Freakonomics*
The Piano Teacher
The Informant
Fingersmith
The Jane Austen Book Club
Born to Run*
Pictures at an Exhibition
Superfreakonomics*
The Monster of Florence*
Stones Into Schools
Whatever It Takes
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Checklist Manifesto
The Girl Who Played With Fire
Half the Sky*
Game Change*
Under the Tuscan Sun
The Lost Continent
Foreign Tongue: A Novel of Life and Love in Paris
Living History
Notes from a Small Island*
When Everything Changed*
Into Thin Air
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks*
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Getting Stoned with Savages
Lost on Planet China
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
Grounded
Summer at Tiffany
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
What the Dog Saw
The Happiness Project*
Predictably Irrational
Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running
The Billionaire's Vinegar
Down Under
Cider House Rules*
At Home*
The Happiness Project (yep, read it twice)
The Right Stuff
Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates & Heroines
The Botany of Desire*
The Ghost Map
Moose
Unbroken*
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Three Cups of Tea
Combining fiction and nonfiction
Thoughts on Frank McCourt
In which Ian McEwan is a genius
Don't Read These
Or These
The book I didn't love too much
Thrift store books FTW
