Rating system
1 star – If I finished it, shame on me.
2 stars – I wanted to see how it ended, but it was just okay.
3 stars – I liked it.
4 stars – I loved it.
5 stars – It was brilliant and you should read it immediately – in fact, everyone should.
Books started in 2009 but finished in 2010:
Now and Then
by Jacqueline Sheehan – 3 stars – my review
Things That Make Us [Sic] by Martha Brockenbrough – 4 stars – my review
Reconstruction and Reform by Joy Hakim – 3 stars
Eldest by Christopher Paolini (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (audiobook) – 5 out of 5 stars – my review
Sailing Alone Around the Room: Poems by Billy Collins
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell – 4 stars – my review
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (audiobook) – my review
Books started and finished in 2010:
January:
1. Questions About Angels: Poems by Billy Collins – 5 stars – my review
2. Paper Towns by John Green – 4 stars – my review
3. This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer – 4 stars – my review
4. Storm Front by Jim Butcher – 4 stars – my review
5. Dragon House by John Shors – 4 stars – my review
6. Looking for Alaska by John Green – 4 stars – my review
7. The Summer We Fell Apart by Robin Antalek – 3 stars – my review
February:
8. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green – 5 out of 5 stars – my review
9. Spellbinder by Helen Stringer (read-aloud) – 4 out of 5 stars – my review
10. Wounded: A Love Story by Claudia Mair Burney – 3 stars – my review
11. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby – 4 stars – my review
12. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (audiobook) – 5 stars – my review
13. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare – 4 stars – my review
14. U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
15. At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman – 5 stars – my review
16. King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography by Chris Crutcher (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
17. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde – 4 stars
18. Almost Home by Pam Jenoff – 4 stars – my review
19. Candor by Pam Bachorz – 4 stars – my review
20. The Creation of Eve by Lynn Cullen – 4 stars – my review
21. The Diary of Pelly D by L.J. Adlington – 4 stars – my review
22. Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins – 3 stars – my review
23. The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg – 4 stars – my review
March:
24. Down the Long Hills by Louis L’Amour (read-aloud) – 3 stars – my review
25. Going Bovine by Libba Bray (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
26. Gone by Michael Grant (read-aloud/re-read) – 4 stars
27. The Game by Laurie R. King (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
28. An Irish Country Girl by Patrick Taylor – 4 stars – my review
29. Beastly by Alex Flinn – 4 stars – my review
30. Delights and Shadows: Poems by Ted Kooser – 4 stars
31. If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous – 3 and a half stars – my review
32. We the Children (Keepers of the School, Book 1) by Andrew Clements (read-aloud) – 3 stars – my review
33. The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
34. Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon – 4 stars – my review
35. The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli – 5 stars – my review
36. Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen – 4 stars – my review
April:
37. Fallen by Lauren Kate (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
38. I Like it Here at School: Poems compiled by Jack Prelutsky (read-aloud) – 3 stars
39. Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld – 5 stars – my review
40. Please Bury Me in the Library by J. Patrick Lewis and Kyle M. Stone (read-aloud) – 3 stars
41. The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service and Ted Harrison (read-aloud) – 3 stars
42. Burning for Revenge (Tomorrow Series, Book 5) by John Marsden – 4 stars – my review
43. Undercover by Beth Kephart – 5 stars – my review
44. The Night is for Hunting (Book 6, The Tomorrow Series) by John Marsden – 4 stars – my review
45. The Other Side of Dawn (Book 7, The Tomorrow Series) by John Marsden – 4 stars – my review
46. The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams – 4 stars – my review
47. Love in a Time of Homeschooling: A Mother and Daughter’s Uncommon Year by Laura Brodie – 4 stars – my review
48. Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos (audiobook) – 5 stars – my review
49. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen – 4 stars – my review
50. Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Foklore in the Literature of Childhood by Jane Yolen – 5 stars – my review
51. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
52. Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 by David Petersen – 3 stars
53. When Forgiveness Doesn’t Make Sense by Robert Jeffress – 4 stars – my review
54. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
55. Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz – 4 stars – my review
56. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (audiobook) – 5 stars
57. Hunger by Michael Grant – 4 stars – my review
58. An Age of Extremes: 1880-1917 A History of US Book 8 by Joy Hakim – 3 stars
59. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby – 4 stars – my review
60. Friendship Cake by Lynne Hinton – 4 stars – my review
May:
61. The Passage by Justin Cronin – 5 stars – my review
62. The New Kid on the Block: Poems by Jack Prelutsky – 3 stars
63. Letter to My Daughter by George Bishop – 4 stars – my review
64. Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy (audiobook) – 3 stars – my review
65. The Heart is Not a Size by Beth Kephart – 5 stars – my review
66. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (audiobook) – 5 stars – my review
67. On Folly Beach by Karen White – 4 stars – my review
68. Far From the Land: An Irish Memoir by Thomas J. Rice – 4 stars – my review
69. Janeology by Karen Harrington – 4 stars – my review
70. One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – 3 stars – my review
71. Get Lucky by Katherine Center – 4 stars – my review
72. The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan (audiobook) – 3 stars – my review
73. The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran – 4 stars – my review
74. Brisingr by Christopher Paolini (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
75. Thaw by Fiona Robyn – 4 stars – my review
76. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen – 4 stars – my review
June:
77. Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
78. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell – 3 stars – my review
79. A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen – 4 stars
80. Being Perfect by Anna Quindlen – 4 stars
81. Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King – 5 stars – my review
82. French Milk by Lucy Knisley – 3 stars – my review
83. Impatient with Desire by Gabrielle Burton – 4 stars – my review
84. Firmin by Sam Savage – 4 stars – my review
85. Let Me Go by Helga Schneider (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
86. The Likeness by Tana French – 5 stars – my review
87. Genesis by Bernard Beckett – 4 stars – my review
88. Good Poems: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor – 4 stars
89. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (audiobook) – 5 stars – my review
90. The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King – 5 stars – my review
91. White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1) by Holly Black (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
92. The Lace Makers of Glenmara by Heather Barbieri – 4 stars – my review
93. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro – 4 stars – my review
94. The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
July:
95. Tell Me a Secret by Holly Cupala – 4 stars – my review
96. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (audiobook) – 5 stars – my review
97. Truly, Madly by Heather Webber – 4 stars – my review
98. Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show by Frank Delaney – 4 stars – my review
99. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer – 4 stars – my review
100. Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, selected and introduced by Billy Collins – 4 stars
101. Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature’s 50 Greatest Hits by Jack Murnighan – 4 stars – my review
102. Dracula in Love by Karen Essex – 3 stars – my review
103. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman – 5 stars – my review
104. God of the Hive by Laurie R. King – 5 stars – my review
105. Raiders’ Ransom by Emily Diamand (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
106. The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich (audiobook) – 3 stars – my review
107. North! or Be Eaten by Andrew Peterson – 5 stars – my review
108. Spells by Aprilynne Pike – 4 stars
109. One Day by David Nicholls – 5 stars – my review
110. Though Waters Roar by Lynn Austin – 3 stars – my review
August:
111. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl – 5 stars – my review
112. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
113. Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
114. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (audiobook) – 5 stars – my review
115. The Fiddler’s Gun by A.S. Peterson – 4 stars – my review
116. The Impostor’s Daughter: A True Memoir by Laurie Sandell – 3 stars – my review
117. Fragile by Lisa Unger (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review
118. Christine Falls by Benjamin Black – 4 stars – my review
119. Godric by Frederick Buechner – 2 stars
120. The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst (audiobook) – 5 stars – my review
121. Troublemaker, Book 1 by Janet Evanovich; Alex Evanovich; and Joelle Jones – 3 stars
122. I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman – 4 stars
123. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins – 5 stars
124. Home Repair by Liz Rosenberg – 4 stars – my review
125. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson (audiobook) – 4 stars
September:
126. Matched by Ally Condie – 4 stars
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