Here is a list of the books that I’ve read this year. Many I listened to on audio book while cooking dinner or eating or driving in the car. Books that have asterisks beside them were my favouites for 2010.
Reading:
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Old Tales Retold by Lu Hsun
On My Bedside Table:
The Pipers Son by Melina Marchetta
Jackdaw Summer by David Almond
Land’s Edge by Tim Winton
Books Read:
The Wonder by Diana Evans
*Timbuktu by Paul Auster
*Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbruy
The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell
The Pyramid by Henning Mankell
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
*Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching (Adaptation) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Our Lady of Pain by Elena Forbes
Moon Palace by Paul Auster
*Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury
Leviathan by Paul Auster
*Aboriginal Men of High Degree by A P Elkin
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
In the Dark Winter by Tim Winton
*My People’s Dreaming by Max Dulumunmun Harrison
*The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Ice Cold by Tess Gerritson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stief Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stief Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stief Larsson
Girl Missing by Tess Gerritson
Saturday by Ian McEwan
*The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang
Young Adult Fiction:
*Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
*Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman
*Six Impossible Things by Fiona Wood
*The Underneath by Kathi Appelt drawings by David Small
*Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
*India Dark by Kirsty Murray
*A Small Free Kiss in the Dark by Glenda Millard
Junior Fiction
*The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon by David Almond
*Hazel Green by Odo Hirsch
*Now by Morris Gleitzman
*Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Picture Books:
*Fearless by Colin Thompson illustrated by Sarah Davis
*All Through the Year by Jane Godwin illustrated by Anna Walker
*Peeking Ducks by Krista Bell illustrated by Sally Rippin
*Running With Horses by Alison Lester
*Flame Stands Waiting by Corinne Fenton illustrated by Sebastian Ciaffaglione
*The Glasshouse by Paul Collins illustrated by Jo Thompson
*There Was an Old Sailor by Claire Saxby illustrated by Cassandra Allen
*The Princess and the Panther by Wendy Orr illustrated by Lauren Stringer
*Isabellas Garden by Glenda Millard
Books I started and didnt finish
A Good and Happy Childhood by Justin Evans
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood