2010 Reading List|

1. The Unlikely Disciple –  Kevin Roose

2. The Digital Writing Workshop — Troy Hicks

3. Brooklyn — Colm Toibin

4. First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria — Eve Brown-Waite

5. Shanghai Girls — Lisa See

6. A Reliable Wife — Robert Goolrick

7. The House of Tomorrow — Peter Bognanni

8. Bringing Grammar to Life — Deborah Dean

9. Olive Kitteridge — Elizabeth Strout

10. Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger

11. The Glass Castle — Jeannette Walls

12. Heresy – S.J. Parris

13. Baby Proof – Emily Giffin

14. In the Land of Believers — Gina Welch

15. Shiver — Maggie Stiefvater

16. Same Kind of Different as Me — Denver Moore & Ron Hall

17. Romancing Miss Bronte — Juliet Gael

18. Far From the Land — Thomas Rice

19. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years – Donald Miller

20. The Gin Closet — Leslie Jamison

21. The Girl Who Played With Fire — Steig Larsson

22. Committed — Elizabeth Gilbert

23. Beatrice and Virgil — Yann Martel

24. The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins

25. Secret Daughter — Shilpi Somaya Gowda

26. Catching Fire — Suzanne Collins

27. The Swimming Pool – Holly LeCraw

28. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott — Kelly O’Connor McNees

29. A Room of One’s Own — Virginia Woolf

30. The Postmistress – Sarah Blake

31. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie — Alan Bradley

32. Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell

33. Mudbound – Hillary Jordan

34. The Red Pyramid — Rick Riordan

35. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel

36. The Three Weissmanns of Westport — Cathleen Schine

37. Lunch in Paris: a Love Story with Recipes — Elizabeth Bard

38. Will Grayson, Will Grayson — John Green and David Levithan

39. Perfume — The Story of a Murderer – Patrick Suskind

40. The House on Salt Hay Road — Carin Clevidence

41. Look Me In the Eye — John Elder Robison

42. Red Hook Road — Ayelet Waldman

43. One L — Scott Turow

44. The Good Thief –Hannah Tinti

45. Petite Anglaise — Catherine Sanderson

46. Garden Spells — Sarah Addison Allen

47. Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy

48. Fiela’s Child – Dalene Matthee

49. The Lovers — Vendela Vida

50. The AP Vertical Teams Guide for English (Yes, I really did read this cover-to-cover. And no, I’m not reviewing it. If you’re disappointed, email me, and I’ll get a little review right back to you!)

51. Mrs. Dalloway — Virginia Woolf

52. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team — Patrick Lencioni  (Another professional/business book that, while fascinating to me, might not fascinate you in a review!)

53. Proust’s Overcoat — Lorenza Foschini

54. Teaching Adolescent Writers — Kelly Gallagher

55. Mechanically Inclined — Jeff Anderson

56. Affinity — Sarah Waters

57. Death With Interruptions — José Saramago

58. My Fair Lazy — Jen Lancaster

59. Fire in the Blood – Irene Nemirovsky

60. Mockingjay — Suzanne Collins

61. Write Beside Them — Penny Kittle

62. Lessons that Change Writers — Nancie Atwell

63. The Sparrow — Mary Doria Russell

64. Me Talk Pretty One Day — David Sedaris

65. Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment — Maja Wilson

66. You Can Change — Tim Chester

67. The Road — Cormac McCarthy

68. The Magicians — Lev Grossman

69. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot

70. Unless It Moves the Human Heart — Roger Rosenblatt

71. A Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams

72. Adopted for Life — Russell D. Moore

73. Antigone — Sophocles

74. The True Story of Hansel and Gretel – Louise Murphy

75. Antigone — Jean Anouilh

76. What is the Gospel — Greg Gilbert

77. The Forgotten Garden — Kate Morton

78.  Assassination Vacation — Sarah Vowell

79. Villette – Charlotte Bronte

80.Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self — Danielle Evans