Books Read in 2010

This is a list of all of the books that I've read in 2010, broken up into Picture Books, Middle Grade Books, Young Adult Books, Adult Fiction, and Adult Nonfiction.

Picture Books

1. Doreen Cronin (ill. Harry Bliss): Diary of a Worm. HarperCollins. Completed January 2, 2010.
2. Joyce Sidman (ill. Pamela Zagarenski): Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors. Houghton Mifflin. Completed February 17, 2010.
3. Liz Garton Scanlon (ill. Marla Frazee): All the World. Beach Lane Books. Completed February 18, 2010.
4. Betsy Snyder: Sweet Dreams Lullaby. Random House. Completed March 6, 2010.
5. Cynthia Lord (il. Derek Anderson): Hot Rod Hamster. Scholastic. Completed March 6, 2010. My review.
6. Aaron Zenz. The Hiccupotamus. Marshall Cavendish. Completed March 6, 2010. My review.
7. Boni Ashburn (ill. Kelly Murphy): Over at the Castle. Abrams. Completed March 6, 2010. My review.
8. Charise Mericle Harper: Pink Me Up. Knopf. Completed March 6, 2010. My review.
9. Diane Muldrow (ill. David Walker): How Do Lions Say I Love You? Golden Books. Completed March 6, 2010.
10. Selma Mandine: Kiss Kiss. Golden Books. Completed March 6, 2010.
11. Kat Yeh (ill. Sue Anderson): You're Lovable to Me. Random House. Completed March 6, 2010.
12. Major Brian Dennis, Kibry Larson, Mary Nethery: Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle. Little, Brown. Completed March 6, 2010. My review.
13. Ellen Weiss (ill. Jerry Smath): The Taming of Lola: A Shrew Story. Abrams. Completed March 6, 2010. My review.
14. Bruce Degen: Jamberry (board book). HarperFestival. March 12, 2010. A gift from Colleen.
15. Bob Boyle: Hugo and the Really, Really, Really Long String. Random House. Completed March 12, 2010.
16. Joan Yolleck (ill. Marjorie Priceman): Paris in the Spring with Picasso. Schwartz & Wade. Completed March 14, 2010.
17. Sergio Ruzzier: Amandina. Roaring Brook Press. Completed March 16, 2010.
18. Sergio Ruzzier: Hey, Rabbit. Roaring Brook Press. Completed March 16, 2010. My review.
19. Stephen Huneck: Sally's Great Balloon Adventure. Abrams. Completed March 29, 2010.
20. Laura Numeroff and Nate Evans (ill. Lynn Munsinger): The Jellybeans and the Big Book Bonanza. Abrams. Completed March 29, 2010.
21. Judith Kerr: One Night in the Zoo. Kane/Miller Book Publishers. Completed March 30, 2010. My review.
22. Susana Lopez (ill. Ulises Wensell): The Best Family in the World. Kane/Miller Book Publishers. Completed March 30, 2010. My review.
23. William Lach (ill. Doug Kennedy): My Friends the Flowers. Abrams. Completed April 1, 2010.
24. Marisabina Russo: A Very Big Bunny. Schwartz & Wade. Completed April 1, 2010.
25. Susan Lendroth (ill. Kathryn Otoshi): Maneki Neko: The Tale of the Beckoning Cat. Shen's Books. Completed November 5, 2010. My review.
26. June Sobel (ill. Laura Huliska-Beith): The Goodnight Train. Harcourt. Completed many times, including November 5, 2010. My review.
27. Lots of books read to Baby Bookworm, not yet listed.

Middle Grade Books

1. Julianna Baggott: The Prince of Fenway Park. HarperCollins. Completed January 8, 2010.
2. Neil Gaiman (ill. Brett Helquist): Odd and the Frost Giants. HarperCollins. Completed January 9, 2010.
3. Wendy Mass: 11 Birthdays. Scholastic. Completed January 9, 2010.
4. Grace Lin: When the Mountain Meets the Moon. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Completed January 11, 2010.
5. Joni Sensel: The Farwalker's Quest. Bloomsbury USA Children's Books. Completed January 17, 2010.
6. Jarrett J. Krosoczka: Lunch Lady and the Author Visit Vendetta. Knopf. Completed January 17, 2009. My review.
7. Joan Aiken (ill. Andi Watson): The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories. Big Mouth House. Completed January 21, 2010.
8. Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time. Square Fish. Completed January 23, 2010.
9. Madeleine L'Engle: A Wind in the Door. Square Fish. Completed January 26, 2010.
10. Rebecca Stead: When You Reach Me. Wendy Lamb Books. Completed January 28, 2010. My review.
11. Chris Grabenstein: The Hanging Hill. Random House. Completed February 4, 2010. My review.
12. Marilyn Kaye: Gifted: Out of Sight, Out of Mind. Kingfisher. Completed February 28, 2010. My review.
13. Marilyn Kaye: Gifted: Better Late than Never. Kingfisher. Completed March 1, 2010. My review.
14. Marilyn Kaye: Gifted: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow. Kingfisher. Completed March 1, 2010. My review.
15. Ridley Pearson: Steel Trapp: The Academy. Hyperion. Completed March 9, 2010. My review.
16. Amy Krouse Rosenthal (ill. Paul Schmid): The Wonder Book. HarperCollins. Completed April 2, 2010.
17. Frances Hodsgon Burnett (ill. Tasha Tudor): The Secret Garden. HarperTrophy. Completed May 27, 2010. (Read aloud to Baby Bookworm, her first chapter book)
18. Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking. Puffin. Completed June 3, 2010 (read aloud to Baby Bookworm).
19. Barrie Summy: I So Don't Do Mysteries. Yearling. Completed June 3, 2010.
20. Rick Riordan: The Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles, Book 1). Hyperion. Completed July 20, 2010, on MP3. This is the first of new series that brings Egyptian mythology to life. The main characters are a brother and sister, raised apart after their mother's death, brought together by their father's disappearance, and learning about a whole new world swirling around them. I liked that Carter and Sadie have a realistic sibling rivalry going, and I found the treatment of the siblings' biracial heritage refreshing.
21. Ellen Potter: The Kneebone Boy. Feiwel & Friends. Completed September 17, 2010. My review.
22. J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Scholastic. Completed September 30, 2010. Read aloud to Baby Bookworm.
23. Cynthia Lord: Touch Blue. Scholastic. Completed October 5, 2010. My review.
24. P. J. Hoover: The Necropolis (Forgotten Worlds Trilogy, Book 3). CBAY Books. Completed November 8, 2010. My review.

Young Adult Books

1. Rachel Ward: Numbers. The Chicken House. Completed January 1, 2010. My review.
2. Caroline B. Cooney: They Never Came Back. Delacorte Books for Young Readers. Completed January 12, 2010. My review.
3. Dom Testa: The Comet's Curse: A Galahad Book. Tor Teen. Completed January 18, 2010. My review.
4. Dom Testa: The Web of Titan: A Galahad Book. Tor Teen. Completed February 7, 2010. My review.
5. Carrie Ryan: The Dead-Tossed Waves. Delacorte Press. Completed March 6, 2010. My review.
6. Julie Halpern: Into the Wild Nerd Yonder. Feiwel & Friends. Completed March 14, 2010. My review.
7. Meg Cabot: Airhead. Point. Completed March 18, 2010. My review.
8. Lauren Henderson: Kiss Me, Kill Me (Scarlett Wakefield series). Delecorte Books for Young Readers. Completed March 22, 2010. My review.
9. Maggie Stiefvater: Linger. Scholastic. Completed March 25, 2010. My review.
10. Meg Cabot: Being Nikki (Airhead #2). Point. Completed March 27, 2010. My review.
11. Meg Cabot: Runaway (Airhead #3). Point. Completed June 15, 2010. This is the conclusion to the Airhead trilogy. It was the only thing that I could stay awake to read after Baby Bookworm first came home from the hospital, but alas, that time is such a blur that I really don't have anything to say about the book.
12. Carol Plum-Ucci: Fire Will Fall. Harcourt. Completed August 5, 2010. This is the sequel to Streams of Babel, which I reviewed here. It follows the Trinity Four, teen survivors recuperating from a bioterrorist attack, as well as two v-spies also damaged in the first book. The narration rotates between the various teens, as they adapt to their current circumstances, and recognize a new threat from the terrorists. I enjoyed the interpersonal dynamics between the teens, and especially liked the teen hackers. But I found the pace of the book a bit slow for my current sleep-deprived state.
13. Lauren Henderson: Kisses and Lies (Scarlett Wakefield, #2). Delacorte. Completed August 18, 2010.
14. Lauren Henderson: Kiss in the Dark (Scarlett Wakefield, #3). Delacorte. Completed August 24, 2010. I like this UK-based teen mystery series, featuring a physically strong female protagonist with a complex family history. The books fall into pairs, with Kisses and Lies solving the mystery launched in the first book of the series (reviewed here), while Kiss in the Dark leaves a number of questions open for a presumed fourth book.
15. Suzanne Collins: Mockingjay (Hunger Games series). Scholastic. Completed August 31, 2010. Reviewed here.
16. David Patneaude: Epitaph Road. Egmont. Completed September 25, 2010. My review.
17. Cassandra Clare: The Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, Book 1). Margaret K. McElderry. Completed October 19, on MP3.
18. Sarah Beth Durst: Enchanted Ivy. Margaret K. McElderry. Completed October 21, 2010. My review.

Adult Fiction

1. Harlan Coben: Long Lost. Dutton. The 9th Myron Bolitar mystery. Completed January 9, 2010.
2. Charlaine Harris: All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse #7). Ace paperback. Completed January 29, 2010.
3. Stephen White: The Siege. Dutton Adult. Completed February 14, 2010.
4. Charlaine Harris: From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse #8). Ace paperback. Completed February 23, 2010.
5. Steve Hamilton: The Lock Artist. Minotaur Books. Completed March 12, 2010.
6. Charlaine Harris: Dead and Gone. Ace. Completed March 15, 2010, on MP3.
7. Lisa Lutz: The Spellmans Strike Again. Simon & Schuster. Completed May 3, 2010, on MP3.
8. Louise Penny: A Rule Against Murder. Minotaur. Completed May 14, 2010.
9. Michael Connelly: The Brass Verdict. Little, Brown and Company. Completed June 11, on MP3.
10. Harlan Coben: Caught. Dutton. Completed June 16 (on MP3).
11. Lee Child: 61 Hours. Delacorte. Completed June 20, 2010. This is the latest installment of Child's Reacher series, which I find utterly compelling, and has spread virally through friends and family and friends of friends. I'm baffled as to why Reacher isn't a movie hero (though I kind of like that he's not).
12. Michael Connelly: Nine Dragons. Vision. Completed June 20, 2010, on MP3.
13. Charlaine Harris: Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 10). Ace Books. Completed June 25, 2010, on MP3. While I've generally enjoyed the Sookie Stackhouse books, and think that they make great audio, I found this one a bit too disjointed, plot-wise, for my taste.
14. Laurie R. King: God of the Hive (A Russell/Holmes novel). Bantam. Completed July 5, 2010, on MP3. This book concludes the cliff-hanger at the end of the previous book, and is a must-read for fans of this intelligent historial mystery series.
15. Linwood Barclay: Never Look Away. Delacorte. Completed July 10, 2010, on MP3. Barclay writes suburban thrillers in a similar vein to Harlan Coben's standalone novels. In this one, reporter Dan Harwood's life is turned upside down when his wife disappears during a family outing to an amusement park, and evidence starts to mount that Dan may have had something to do with it.
16. Janet Evanovich: Sizzling Sixteen (Stephanie Plum series). St. Martin's Press. Completed August 1, 2010, on MP3. What can I say? These books are fun, decadent reads, full of over-the-top characters and ludicrous escapades.
17. Jacqueline Winspear: The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs series). Completed August 10, 2010, on MP3. I think that this is one of the best historical mystery series being published today. Maisie has brains, class, and heart. The mysteries are complex and dark, without being gratuitously violent. This one is no exception.
18. Craig Johnson: Junkyard Dogs (Walt Longiore series). Completed August 31, on MP3. I've recently become addicted to Johnson's series, about a crusty small-town Wyoming sheriff. I enjoyed this one, though I missed the active presence of Walt's best friend, Henry (the Bear).
19. Nelson DeMille: The Lion. Hachette. Completed September 24, 2010, on MP3.
20. Louise Penny: The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel. Minotaur Books. Completed October 24, 2010. The second-to-latest installment in this mystery series, set in a small Quebec village. This series just keeps getting better and better. Very well-written.
21. Michael Connelly: The Reversal. Little Brown. Completed October 28, on MP3. A Bosch/Haller mystery (Connelly often brings together his two series leads these days) about the re-trial of a previously convicted child killer (not quite as dark as it sounds, because the crime happened far in the past).
22. Lee Child: Worth Dying For (Reacher #15). Delacorte. Completed November 4, 2010, on MP3. I normally love the Reacher series, and recommend them to all of my friends. This one, however, I found a bit too bleak even for my taste. It may be that it just wasn't well-suited to audio, and the slower pace of listening vs. reading.
23. Dennis Lehane: Moonlight Mile. William Morrow. Completed November 6, 2010. On MP3. This is Lehane's first return to the Patrick/Angie series in several years, and also revisits the 12-year-old case of a missing child that led to the movie Gone, Baby, Gone. I enjoyed it, but I must admit that my favorite thing about the book was that several scenes were set near where I used to live, and very near to where my in-laws live. Lehane's details are 100% authentic, as is Patrick's native Boston resident voice.

Adult Nonfiction

1. Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman: NurtureShock: New Thinking About Childen. Twelve. Completed February 17, 2010. My review.
2. Jim Trelease: The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition. Penguin. Completed February 22, 2010. My review.

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