2010 in Books – By the Numbers
Books Read:
The Hangman’s Daughter, Oliver Pötzsch
Travels in Siberia, Ian Frazier
Third Class Superhero, Charles Yu
Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again, Gary Calamar
I’m Dreaming of a Black Christmas, Lewis Black
The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas, Robin Harvie and Stephanie Meyers (eds.) (Review)
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Walter Mosley
Man in the Woods, Scott Spencer
Comedy in a Minor Key, Hans Keilson
Soul Identity, Dennis Batchelder
Pastoralia, George Saunders
By a Slow River, Phillipe Claudel
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu
A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial, Steve Hendricks (Review)
Death as a Side Effect, Ana María Shua (Review)
On the Rez, Ian Frazier
The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom, Stefan Waydenfeld (Review)
Life, Keith Richards
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature, Patrick Somerville (Review)
Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth, James Tabor
The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
Farthing, Jo Walton
Dope Menace: The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks, Stephen J. Gertz
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Sunset Park, Paul Auster (Review)
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin, Norah Vincent
The Hands of the Buddha: The Dhammapada, A Modern Interpretation, Susan Cogan
Sitting Bull, Prisoner of War, Dennis C. Pope (Review)
The Road, Vasily Grossman (Review)
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, Sarah Silverman
Room, Emma Donoghue
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission, Hampton Sides
The Cave Man, Xiaoda Xiao
The Anti-American Manifesto, Ted Rall (Review)
Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, Peter Orner (ed.)
Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So, Mark Vonnegut (Review)
The Listener, Shira Nayman
American Taliban, Pearl Abraham
Kraken, China Mieville
Things We Didn’t See Coming, Steven K. Amsterdam
Treason on the Airwaves: Three Allied Broadcasters on Axis Radio during World War II, Judith Keene (Review)
The Death of the Adversary, Hans Keilson
Red April, Santiago Roncagliolo (Review)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Stieg Larsson
The Private Lives of Trees, Alejandro Zambra
This Day in Music, Neil Cossar (Review)
God’s Debris: A Thought Experiment, Scott Adams
Starting from Scratch, Susan Gilbert-Collins (Review)
Factory of Tears, Valzhyna Mort
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach
Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death, Jim Frederick
Everything Is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma, Emma Larkin
I Curse the River of Time, Per Petterson
Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration, Ann Bausum
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, David Eagleman
Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life, Michael Dirda
The Best American Comics 2010, Neil Gaiman (ed.) (Review)
Tinkers, Paul Harding
The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories, John Kessel
Generosity: An Enhancement, Richard Powers (Review)
The Scouting Party: Pioneering and Preservation, Progressivism and Preparedness in the Making of the Boy Scouts of America, David C. Scott and Brendan Murphy (Review)
Our Tragic Universe, Scarlett Thomas (Review)
Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban, Jere Van Dyk (Review)
Thumbing Through Thoreau: A Book of Quotations by Henry David Thoreau, Kenny Luck (Review)
Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern
Brief Lives: Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs (Review)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell (Review)
Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens
The Land of Deepening Shadow, D. Thomas Curtin
Behold the Man, Michael Moorcock
Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival, Dean King (Review)
Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones, Robert Greenfield
Me of Little Faith, Lewis Black
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity, Mark Vonnegut
The Informers, Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Review)
The Passage, Justin Cronin (Review)
The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jon Ronson
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
To Mervas, Elisabeth Rynell
The Night of the Gun, David Carr
War, Sebastian Junger (Review)
The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
Wolf Among Wolves, Hans Fallada (Review)
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin, Hampton Sides
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History, David Aaronovitch
The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories, Ian Watson and Ian Whates (eds.)
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, Philip Pullman
The End of Major Combat Operations, Nick McDonnell
Looking for the Summer, Robert W. Norris (Review)
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, James L. Swanson
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, Karl Marlantes
Armenian Golgotha, Grigoris Balakian (Review)
Solar, Ian McEwan
The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War, David Laskin (Review)
Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends, James D. McLaird (Review)
Lonely: A Memoir, Emily White
Dark Heart of the Night, Leonora Miano (Review)
Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World, Nicholas Schou (Review)
Monsieur Pain, Roberto Bolaño
Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia, Francis Wheen (Review)
Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman, David A. Wolff (Review)
The Twin, Gerbrand Bakker (Review)
The Virgin Warrior: The Life and Death of Joan of Arc, Larissa Taylor
Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging, Greg Critser
Everything Matters!, Ron Currie Jr.
God’s Brain, Lionel Tiger and Michael McGuire (Review)
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick
The Greatest Hockey Stories Ever Told: The Finest Writers on Ice, Bryant Urstadt (ed.)
Death in Spring, Merce Rodoreda
Point Omega, Don DeLillo
Brodeck, Philippe Claudel (Review)
The Maimed, Hermann Ungar
Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life, Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt
The Man in Lower Ten, Mary Roberts Rinehart
Rupert: A Confession, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James & The Shondells, Tommy James (Review)
Black Dogs, Ian McEwan
The Three Stooges Scrapbook, Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer & Greg Lenburg (Review)
Get Out of the Way, Daniel Dinges (Review)
The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell (Review)
Happy, Alex Lemon
Too Much Happiness: Stories, Alice Munro
The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back, Charles Pellegrino (Review)
