2010 Reads

January:

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson (adult)****
2. Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman (middle grade fiction)*****
3. Running out of time by Margaret Peterson Haddix (elementary fiction)***
4. Dreamland by Sarah Dessen (YA)***
5. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (Adult/Memoir)***
6. Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur (middle grade)****
7. My Life in Pink and Green by Lisa Greenwald (middle grade)***
8. 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass (elementary fiction)****

February:

9. Leo and the Lesser Lion by Sandra Forrester (elementary-middle grade)****
10. Ruined by Paula Morris (YA Fiction)***
11. The $66 Summer by John Armistead(middle-YA)*****
12. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (Adult Fiction)*****
13. Love is the Higher Law by David Levithan (YA Fiction)****
14. Wild Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff (middle-YA fiction)****

March:

15. Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin (elementary fiction)****
16. gossip of the starlings by Nina de Gramont (YA)***
17. An Unfinished Angel by Sharon Creech (elementary fiction)****
18. Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier (YA Fiction)*****
19. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (YA Fiction)*****
20. Operation Yes by Sarah Lewis Holmes (elementary fiction)****
21. Riot by Walter Dean Myers**

April

22. She's So Dead to Us by Kieren Scott(ARC) (YA)***
23. Any Which Wall by Laurel Snyder (elementary fiction)*****
24. The Homeschool Liberation League by Lucy Frank (middle grade)***
25. Little Bee by Chris Cleave (Literary Fiction)*****
26. Look Again by Lisa Scottoline (adult fiction)****
27. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Literary Fiction)*****

May

28. Yes, Your Teenager is Crazy (nonfiction)****
29. Three Wishes by Carey Goldberg***
30. Fablehaven by Brandon Mull (Ya Fiction)****
31. The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice (elementary fiction)****
32. Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony (middle grade fiction)*****

June

33. The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden(adult)***
34. Fablehaven; Rise of the Evening Star by Brandon Mull (middle)****
35. Maggie's Door by Patricia Reilly Giff(elementary fiction) ****
36. Serena by Ron Rash (literary fiction)*****
37. Oh. My. Gods by Tera Lynn Childs (middle grade)***


July

38. Devil on My Heels by Joyce McDonald (YA)****
39. Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen (YA)****
40. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (adult)****
41. Never Change by Elizabeth Berg (adult)***
42. The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World by e.l. konigsburg (middle)***
43. The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank (adult)****
44. Home to Italy by Peter Pezzelli(adult)***
45. The Reinvention of Edison Thomas by Jacqueline Houtman (elementary-middle)****
46. The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro (adult-short stories)*****
47. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow (adult fiction)*****
48. Still Alice by Lisa Genova (adult fiction)*****
49. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (literary fiction)*****
50. From Alice to Zen and Everyone in Between by Elizabeth Atkinson (middle grade)**

August

51. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson (adult fiction)*****
52. Riding Lessons by Sara Gruen (adult fiction)***
53. Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye -(middle grade)****
54. Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress (YA-diversity) ****
55. The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forrester (elementary fiction)****
56. A Place for Delta by Melissa Walker (middle grade fiction)****
57. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (middle grade fiction)****
58. Shiver by Maggie Stieifvater (YA)*****

September

59. Hippie Chick by Joseph Monninger(YA fiction)***
60. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson (adult fiction)****
61. earthgirl by Jennifer Cowan (YA fiction)***
62. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (YA)****
63. Ellie McDoodle; Have Pen, Will Travel  by Ruth McNally Barshaw(elementary fiction)***
64. Star in the Forest by Laura Resau (elementary fiction)****
65. Finally by Wendy Mass (elementary fiction)***
66. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead*****

October

67. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut (classic)****
68. linger by Maggie Stiefvater (YA-fantasy)
69. Buying Time by Pamela Samuels Young (Adult mystery)****

November

70. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Classic Adult) ***
71. Me and the Pumpkin Queen by Marlane Kennedy (elementary fiction)****
72. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (adult fiction)*****
73. A Curse as Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce (YA Fiction)***
74. My Abandonment by Peter Rock (adult fiction)****
75. Forge by Laurie Halse Andersen (middle grade-YA)
76. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (adult mystery)****
77. Evangeline Mudd and the Golden-Haired Apes of the Ikkinasti Jungle by D. Elliot (elementary fiction)***
78. Clementine; Friend of the Week by Sarah Pennypacker (elementary fiction)***

December

79. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (elementary fiction)*****
80. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (Adult Fiction)****
81. the Everafter by Amy Huntley (YA Fiction)*****
82. Along  for the ride by Sarah Dessen (YA Fiction)*****
83. Sugur Plum Ballerinas; Toe Shoe Trouble by Whoopi Goldberg (elementary fiction)****
84. Road to Tater Hill by Edith M. Hemingway (elementary fiction) ***
85. The Night Fairy by Laura Amy Schlitz (elementary fiction)****
86. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (adult-Historical Fiction)*****