Favorite Books 2010

TITLE	AUTHOR	VOTES
13th Hour, The	Richard Doetsch	1
90 Percent of the Game is Half Mental and Other Tales from the Edge of Baseball Fandom	Emma Span	1
Air We Breathe, The	Andrea Barrett	1
Alice I Have Been	Melanie Benjamin	1
All Clear	Connie Willis	2
American Prometheus: The Truimph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer	Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin	1
American Quilts, the Democratic Art, 1780-2007	Robert Shaw	1
And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris	Alan Riding	1
Bad Book Affair, The: A Mobile Library Mystery	Ian Sansom	1
Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring	Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan	1
Bartimaeus trilogy	Jonathan Stroud	1
Beatrice and Virgil	Yann Martel	1
Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day	Joel Osteen	1
Blackout	Connie Willis	2
Blind Contessa’s New Machine, The	Carey Wallace	1
Bliss and Other Short Stories	Ted Gilley	1
Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, The: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope	William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer	1
Bricklayer, The	Noah Boyd	1
Brodeck	Philippe Claudel	1
Bury Your Dead	Louise Penny	1
Burying Place, The	Brian Freeman	1
Buzz Off	Hannah Reed	1
C	Tom McCarthy	1
Changes	Jim Butcher	1
Chaos Walking trilogy	Patrick Ness	2
Charlie St. Cloud	Ben Sherwood	1
Children’s Book, The	A.S. Byatt	2
Columbine	Dave Cullen	2
Confederacy of Dunces, A (audio) read by Barrett Whitener	John Kennedy Toole	2
Conspiracy of Kings, A	Megan Whalen Turner	1
Counterfeiters, The	Andre Gide	1
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter	Tom Franklin	2
Day the Falls Stood Still, The	Cathy Marie Buchanan	1
Death of the Liberal Class, The	Chris Hedges	1
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose	Tony Hsieh	1
Diamond Ruby	Joseph E Wallace	1
Double, The	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1
Eat Pray Love	Elizabeth Gilbert	1
Eat This, Not That	David Zinczenko	1
Edge, The	Jeffrey Deaver	1
Eighteen Minutes: The Battle of San Jacinto and the Texas Independence Campaign	Stephen L Moore	1
Elemental Assassin series	Jennifer Estep	3
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn	Alison Goodman	1
Faithful Place	Tana French	1
Fire	Kristin Cashore	1
Flora’s Very Windy Day	Jeanne Birdsall	1
Foiled	Jane Yolen	1
Forge	Laurie Halse Anderson	1
Forgotten Garden, The	Kate Morton	1
Freedom	Jonathan Franzen	1
Galileo’s Dream	Kim Stanley Robinson	1
Germany 1945: From War to Peace	Richard Bessel	1
Ghostopolis	Doug TenNapel	1
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Stieg Larsson	1
Glass Castle, The	Jeannette Walls	1
God of the Hive, The	Laurie R. King	1
Grand Mosque of Paris, The: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust	Karen Gray Ruelle	1
Graveyard Book, The	Neil Gaiman	3
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society	Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows	1
Half Broke Horses	Jeannette Wall	1
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide	Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn	2
Help, The	Kathryn Stockett	6
Help, The (audio) read by Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and Cassandra Campbell	Kathryn Stockett	2
Henry in Love	Peter McCarty	1
Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why It Matters What Christians Believe	Ben Quash and Michael Ward	1
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword	Barry Deutsch	1
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet	Jamie Ford	1
Humboldt Current, The: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism	Aaron Sachs	1
Hunger Games, The trilogy	Suzanne Collins	3
Hush	Eishes Chayil	1
I Shall Wear Midnight	Terry Pratchett	1
I’d Know You Anywhere	Laura Lippman	1
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The	Rebecca Skloot	5
Impossible	Nancy Werlin	1
In the Sancturary of Outcasts	Neil White	1
Ingo series	Helen Dunmore	1
Instructions	Neil Gaiman	1
Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture	Adam S McHugh	1
Irredeemable: Volume 1	Mark Waid	1
Just Kids	Patti Smith	3
Knots and Crosses	Ian Rankin	1
Kushiel’s Legacy series	Jacqueline Carey	1
Lacuna, The	Barbara Kingsolver	1
Lark and Termite	Jayne Anne Phillips	1
Last Orders	Graham Swift	1
Last Reader, The	David Toscana	1
Lesson Before Dying, A	Ernest J. Gaines	1
Let the Great World Spin	Colum McCann	1
Leviathan series	Scott Westerfeld	1
Little Bee (audio) read by Anne Flosnik	Chris Cleave	1
Little Giant of Aberdeen County, The	Tiffany Baker	2
Little Stranger, The	Sarah Waters	1
Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans	T. R. Fehrenbach	1
Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, The	Kelly O’Connor McNees	1
Magician’s Elephant, The	Kate DiCamillo	1
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand	Helen Simonson	1
Man in the Dark	Paul Auster	1
Mapping of Love and Death, The	Jacqueline Winspear	1
Me	Ricky Martin	1
Middlemarch	George Eliot	1
Midnight Louie series	Carole Nelson Douglas	1
Million Miles in a Thousand Years, A: What I Learned While Editing My Life	Donald Miller	1
Mind’s Eye, The	Oliver Sacks	1
Mistress of the Art of Death	Ariana Franklin	1
Model Home	Eric Puchner	1
Moonlight Mile	Dennis Lehane	1
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World	Tracy Kidder	1
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH	Robert C O’Brien	1
Murderous Procession, A	Ariana Franklin	1
Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter	Antonia Fraser	1
My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq	Ariel Sabar	1
My Name is Mary Sutter	Robin Oliveira	1
My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy	Nora Titone	1
Nearest Exit, The	Olen Steinhauer	1
Nemesis	Philip Roth	1
Networked Nonprofit, The: Connecting With Social Media to Drive Change	Beth Kanter and Allison Fine	1
Next Queen of Heaven, The	Gregory Maguire	1
Nicholas II: Twilight of the Empire	Dominic Lieven	1
Night Fairy, The	Laura Amy Schlitz	1
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea	Barbara Demick	1
Novel Bookstore, A	Laurence Cosse	1
Olive Kitteridge	Elizabeth Strout	3
One Day	David Nicholls	1
Peculiar Crimes Unit series	Christopher Fowler	1
People of the Book	Geraldine Brooks	2
Philena’s Friendship Quilt: A Quaker Farewell to Ohio	Lynda Salter Chenoweth	1
Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics	Graham Harman	1
Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box	Madeleine Albright	1
Remarkable Creatures	Tracy Chevalier	2
Roar, The	Emma Clayton	1
Room	Emma Donoghue	2
Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt, The: Stories of the Relief Society Women and Their Quilt	Carol Holindrake Nielson	1
Sarah’s Key	Tatiana de Rosnay	1
Scenic Route, The	Binnie Kirshenbaum	1
Scent of Rain and Lightning, The	Nancy Pickard	1
Shades of Grey	Jasper Fforde	1
Shah and I, The: The Confidential Diary of Iran’s Royal Court, 1968-1977	Asadollah Alam	1
Ship Breaker	Paolo Bacigalupi	1
Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till	Simeon Wright	1
Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense	N.T. Wright	1
Skippy Dies	Paul Murray	1
Snakewoman of Little Egypt	Robert Hellenga	1
Solar	Ian McEwan	1
Solitude of Prime Numbers, The	Paolo Giordano	1
Someone I Loved	Anna Gavalda	1
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, The: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures	Anne Fadiman	1
Spirit Level, The: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger	Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett	1
Staggerford	Jon Hassler	1
Still Alice	Lisa Genova	3
Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The	David Wroblewski	1
Strangest Man, The: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom	Graham Farmelo	1
Strip Jack	Ian Rankin	1
Strong Horse, The: Power, Politics and the Clash of Arab Civilzations	Lee Smith	1
Super Sad True Love Story	Gary Shteyngart	1
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman	Richard P. Feynman	1
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The	Alan Bradley	2
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard	Chip Heath and Dan Heath	1
Tallgrass	Sandra Dallas	1
That Old Cape Magic	Richard Russo	1
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original	Robin D. G. Kelley	1
Thereby Hangs a Tail	Spencer Quinn	1
Think of a Number	John Verdon	1
Thirteenth Tale, The	Diane Setterfield	2
This Body of Death	Elizabeth George	1
Tiger, The: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival	John Vaillant	2
Tinkers	Paul Harding	1
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth	Kevin Wilson	1
Tunnels trilogy	Brian Williams and Roderick Gordon	1
Twain’s Feast: Searching for America’s Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens	Andrew Beahrs	1
Unaccustomed Earth	Jhumpa Lahiri	1
Unfinished Desires	Gail Godwin	2
Unwind	Neal Shusterman	1
Warmth of Other Suns, The: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration	Isabel Wilkerson	2
Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag, The	Alan Bradley	1
Welcome Grave, A	Michael Koryta	1
What Happened to Anna K.	Irina Reyn	1
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present	Gail Collins	1
When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans	Laura  Browder	1
Whiter than Snow	Sandra Dallas	1
Wild Things, The	Dave Eggers	1
Will Grayson, Will Grayson	John Green and David Levithan	3
Winter Rose, The	Jennifer Donnelly	1
Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	2
Woods Runner	Gary Paulsen	1
Yalta: The Price of Peace	S.M. Plokhy	1
Year Before the Flood, The: A Story of New Orleans	Ned Sublette	1
Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy — Until You’re 80 and Beyond	Chris Crowley	1
Zeitoun	Dave Eggers	1