10 Best Reads in 2010

In six hours or so, 2010 will end for me. It's been a year of many great and grand changes in my life, and for that, I am truly grateful. And although I didn't even read half of the books that I did last year (I only made it to 41 books this year), I am grateful, too, that I did not meet a book this year that I didn't like.

2010 was a year of slow but beautiful reading. Unfortunately, this was also a year of lazy blogging. So, though I can rave about all 10 of these books, I do need to catch up with reviews for most of them. Especially the ones I read in the last two months of the year.

Anyway, without further ado, here they are, in the order in which I read them:

1) Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2) The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
3) Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
4) Watership Down by Richard Adams
5) The Passage by Justin Cronin
6) Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
7) A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
8) The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
9) 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
10) Stoner by John Williams

Obviously, I'm still very much a fiction reader, with only one non-fiction book in the list--Gladwell's The Tipping Point. Of note, though, is that three of the books in this list were published this year. I say this is of note because I've never been one to read the latest releases. I guess being a book blogger and following all those book sites on Twitter has changed that.

In the next week or so, will post a more detailed update of my 2010 reading, as well as my 2011 reading and blogging goals. Won't be as detailed as last year's reckoning, though, but it'll be an update still, mostly for my benefit. My friends will tell you that I'm a control freak that way.

New Year countdown: 5 hours and 50 minutes till zero hour. Here's where I say Happy New Year to you all and thank you for hanging out with me in the past year! In the grand scheme of things, every year brings about its own blessings. I was fortunate to have many in 2010 and I hope you were, too. And I hope that 2011 brings us all the blessings that we really need.:)