Books 2011

This page is an archive of books read in the year 2010. (Click here for last year’s list.) The ones marked asterisk (*) are books I have read before. The bolded titles are books I recommend. The titles in strikes are books I dislike; that does not in any way mean the books would not be good reads for you, it is purely my personal preference.

Books I donated in this year

Year-end summary: __ fiction, __ non-fiction, __ children, __ young adult, __ chick lit, __ fantasy
Total: 50 books

December
None
Summary: Very bad girl

November
The Diamond of Darkhold – Jeanne DuPrau
Summary: 1 young adult

October
Bestseller – Olivia Goldsmith
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
The Language of Flowers – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The People of Sparks – Jeanne DuPrau
The Prophet of Yonwood – Jeanne DuPrau
A Desirable Residence – Madeleine Wickham
The Sweet Life in Paris – David Lebovitz
Summary: 2 chick lit, 3 young adult, 1 fiction, 1 non-fiction

September
Swimming Pool Sunday – Madeleine Wickham
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer – John Grisham
Embedded: Confessions of a TV Sex Journalist – Ross Dale
The Tennis Party – Madeleine Wickham
It’s Kind of a Funny Story – Ned Vizzini
I Heart Paris – Lindsey Kelk
Summary: 3 chick lit, 2 young adult, 1 non-fiction

August
Victory of Eagles – Naomi Novik
Pearl of China – Anchee Min
The City of Ember – Jeanne DuPrau
Mr Mulliner Speaking – P.G. Wodehouse
The Tales of Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle-duck – Beatrix Potter
Tuti and I – Jaslina Yassin
Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
Where Books Fall Open: A Reader’s Anthology of Wit and Passion
Cause Celeb – Helen Fielding
My Milk Toof: The Adventures of Ickle and Lardee – Inhae Lee
Anna and the French Kiss – Stephanie Perkins
Summary: 1 fantasy, 1 fiction, 3 young adult, 1 short stories, 3 children, 1 non-fiction, 1 chick lit

July
Black Powder War – Naomi Novik
Empire of Ivory – Naomi Novik
Summary: 2 fantasy

June
The Boy in the Dress – David Walliams
Throne of Jade – Naomi Novik
Summary: 1 children, 1 fantasy

May
The 13 Curses – Michelle Harrison
Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
The 13 Secrets – Michelle Harrison
Summary: 2 children, 1 young adult

April
*Death on the Nile – Agatha Christie
Where the Heart is – Billie Letts
The Two Princesses of Bamarre – Gail Carson Levine
People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks
The 13 Treasures – Michelle Harrison
Summary: 3 fiction, 2 children

March
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein
The Kabul Beauty School – Deborah Rodriguez
The Bride Stripped Bare – Anonymous (Nikki Gemmell)
*Because of Winn-Dixie – Kate DiCamillo
*The ABC Murders – Agatha Christie
Enchanted Glass – Diana Wynne Jones
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder – Shamini Flint
Z for Zachariah – Robert C. O’Brien
Summary: 5 fiction, 1 non-fiction, 1 children, 1 fantasy, 1 young adult

February
Losing My Virginity – Richard Branson
Summary: 1 non-fiction

January
The Book with No Name – Anonymous (The Bourbon Kid)
Me and Mr Darcy – Alexandra Potter
The Bookshop – Penelope Fitzgerald
Summary: 2 fiction, 1 chick lit