These are the 47 books I read in 2010. (Previous lists can be found using these links: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003)
The books are listed in the order I read them, oldest first, except for the 3 fiction books which I listed separately at the bottom. My favorite books were #’s 13, 18, 23, 34, 43, and 44.
Nonfiction:
1. The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution, David Kamp
2. Making the Corps, Thomas E. Ricks
3. Faith Under Fire: An Army Chaplain’s Memoir, Roger Benimoff
4. The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment, A.J. Jacobs
5. Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, Julie Powell
6. Government Girl: Young and Female in the White House, Stacy Parker Aab
7. Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska, Miranda Weiss
8. Love My Rifle More than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, Kayla Williams
9. Prairie Tale, Melissa Gilbert
10. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, Gretchen Rubin
11. Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, Anthony Swofford
12. Babylon by Bus: Or, the true story of two friends who gave up their valuable franchise selling YANKEES SUCK T-shirts at Fenway to find meaning and adventure in Iraq, Ray LeMoine and Jeff Neumann
13. Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale
14. Paper Daughter: A Memoir, M. Elaine Mar
15. Special Agent: My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI, Candice DeLong
16. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated, Alison Arngrim
17. The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram Your Genes for Effortless Weight Loss, Vibrant Health, and Boundless Energy, Mark Sisson
18. Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, Piper Kerman
19. My Life from Scratch: A Sweet Journey of Starting Over, One Cake at a Time, Gesine Bullock-Prado
20. Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China, Jen Lin-Liu
21. Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China, Fuchsia Dunlop
22. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, Anthony Bourdain
23. The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese, Margaret Hathaway
24. Hungry: A Young Model’s Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves, Crystal Renn
25. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, A.J. Jacobs
26. Someone Will Be with You Shortly: Notes from a Perfectly Imperfect Life, Lisa Kogan
27. No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process, Colin Beavan
28. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology, Eric Brende
29. Bound Feet and Western Dress: A Memoir, Pang-Mei Chang
30. At Home in Japan: A Foreign Woman’s Journey of Discovery, Rebecca Otowa
31. Petite Anglaise: In Paris. In Love. In Trouble, Catherine Sanderson
32. I Am Hutterite: The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman’s Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage, Mary-Ann Kirkby
33. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, Timothy Ferriss
34. The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: An American Journalist in Yemen, Jennifer Steil
35. The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove, Cathy Erway
36. Devotion: A Memoir, Dani Shapiro
37. Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas & Found Happiness, Dominique Browning
38. Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America, Linda Furiya
39. Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, Bich Minh Nguyen
40. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food, Jennifer 8. Lee
41. Alternadad: The True Story of One Family’s Struggle to Raise a Cool Kid in America, Neal Pollack
42. Lost on Planet China: One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, J. Maarten Troost
43. Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, Portia de Rossi
44. Whip Smart: A Memoir, Melissa Febos
Fiction:
45. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
46. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
47. Little Bee, Chris Cleave
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I love your year end reading lists. :)
Fascinating list of non-fiction, as usual.
How did you like the Little House bios/memoirs?
And did you like The Happiness Project?
Most importantly, how about Orange is the New Black? It’s been on my TBR list for a long long time and I keep postponing it.
Can you tell us which ones you recommend and which ones you don’t?
Dang girl. That’s a lot of reading. Nice job! I think I read 4. LOL.
Do you read on the way to work? I wish I could read on my commute, as that would help me read a lot more.
I’m so glad you posted these! Lots of new ideas for my nook. :)
Also, if anyone is interested, #43 I highly recommend, amazing book!
Thanks for the list! Discovered some really fascinating new books I’d love to read.
And I also agree on 43, such an amazing book. Spot on and told in the clearest language.
A very interesting list. I’m a little surprised to note that there is not a single title on your list that I have read. I posted a ‘books I read’ list for 2009 on my blog, but didn’t do it for 2010. I’ll have to do one for this year. Happy reading!
I’m start a list of my own for 2010 for the first time.
I want to read the book about Nelly! How was the Julie Powell book….the reviews don’t seem to good. I will def return to the list when I need a new read :)
“I’m going to start a list of my own”…..
Geez!
I admire your commitment to reading so much. I only managed to squeeze in half as many books. What did you think of the Four Hour Work Week?
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