Books Read 2010

 Note that prior to June 2010, I didn’t have a blog – so these reviews are generally much shorter!

**Italics denote ebooks**

February 2010

1. First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde
2. Really Angelic: Pride and Prejudice with a steamy paranormal twist… by Enid Wilson
3. Girls Like Funny Boys by Dave Franklin
4. Or Is That Just Me? by Richard Hammond
5. The Gift by Cecelia Ahern
6. Sesame Street: A Celebration of 40 Years of Life on the Street by Louise A. Gikow
7. A Song in the Daylight by Paullina Simons

March 2010

1. So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading… by Sara Nelson
2. Their Finest Hour And A Half by Lissa Evans
3. House Rules by Jodi Picoult
4. Saving Grace by Ciara Geraghty
5. Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates

April 2010

1. After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murakami
2. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
3. What Kate did next by Lisa Heidke
4. Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism… by Thomas Kohnstamm
5. Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup… by Jean Godfrey-June
6. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
7. Up in the Air by Walter Kirn

May 2010

1. So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
2. Old Sins by Penny Vincenzi
3. New Europe by Michael Palin
4. Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes
5. Playing the Field by Zoë Foster
6. For Crying Out Loud: v. 3: The World According to Clarkson  by Jeremy Clarkson

June 2010

1. The Second Last Woman in England by Maggie Joel
2. The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
3. Babel by Barry Maitland
4. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
5. Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
6. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson 
7. Mama Mia : a memoir of mistakes, magazines and motherhood… by Mia Freedman

July 2010

1. Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
2. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
3. Around the World in Eighty Days by Michael Palin
4. Becoming Scarlett by Ciara Geraghty
5. On the Edge: My Story by Richard and Mindy Hammond
6. I Say Tomato by Katie Wall
7. Blind Fury by Lynda La Plante

August 2010

1. Dear Fatty by Dawn French
2. Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave
3. Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
4. The Song of Silver Frond by Catherine Lim

September 2010

1. Queen of the Big Time by Adriana Trigiani
2. Sahara by Michael Palin
3. The Chocolate Run by Dorothy Koomson
4. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
5. Down Under by Bill Bryson
6. Campaign Ruby by Jessica Rudd
7. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
8. Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

October 2010

1. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
2. Homecoming by Cathy Kelly
3. Last Night at Chateau Marmont by Lauren Weisberger
4. Barbed Wire and Roses by Peter Yeldham
5. Diaries: The Python Years 1969-1979 by Michael Palin
6. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
7. Trust Me, I’m a Junior Doctor by Max Pemberton

November 2010

1. Me and Miss M by Jemma Forte
2. A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett
3. Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda
4. The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do
5. Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
6. The Crimson Rooms by Katharine McMahon
7. The Luxe by Anna Godbersen

December 2010

1. Full Circle by Michael Palin
2. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
3. 10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2010 (various authors)
4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
5. Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen
6. Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare
7. The Marx Sisters by Barry Maitland
8. At Home With the Templetons by Monica McInerney
9. The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell (ebook)
10. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
11. A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French (ebook)
12. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne