2010 Recap #1: Books I read

One of the goals I used to make when I made the uberlist was to read a certain number of books, and that a certain number had to be non-fiction. I think the last two years I made the list the goal was 25, but I am too lazy to go back and look. In 2010 I read 22 books:
1) Amy and Isabelle: a Novel - Elizabeth Strout
2) Grace Notes - Bernard Mac Laverty
3) The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
4) The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs
5) Earthly Possessions - Anne Tyler
6) The Return Journey - Maeve Binchy
7) Midwestern Love Songs (Short stories) - Jeff Rosenplot (A friend IRL)
8) Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell
9) Up Island - Anne Rivers Siddons
10) My Secret Garden - Nancy Friday
11) Boy - Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl
12) Such A Pretty Fat - Jen Lancaster
13) Pleasures - Women Write Erotica - Ed. Lonnie Burbach
14) Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? - Peter Walsh
15) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver, Stephen Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver
16) Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
17) Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
18) The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
19) Julie and Julia - Julie Powell
20) Loving Frank - Nancy Horan
21) Sabriel - Garth Nix
22) Good Harbor - Anita Diament

Eight of those were non- fiction: 4, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 19. I read a higher number of non-fiction than usual. I guess because I found books about subjects where I had an interest that were non-fiction, yet written to be entertaining and easily read. The Year of Living Biblically was a book club selection of which I hadn't heard. I enjoyed it and want to read his other memoir as well, in which the author reads through the entire encyclopedia. I plan to write my memoirs (actually have already started) and reading others' memoirs feels like some good learning.

Editing to add: My forays into erotica were a test to see if there is well-written erotica out there. I also read a couple in 2009. I had wondered if it might be a market where I could write and publish a book quickly in order to make some money. What I discovered is that my imagination and experience are nowhere broad enough to try to enter that market!

I would like to get my book reading volume up again in 2011. I have a good start, two are already completed and I am on number three right now. I hope I find some more wonderful books both fiction and non-fiction. There are plenty of them out there!