Books!

Inspired by Decembermum's blog post, I though I'd share the list of books I read in 2010. I've been keeping a list since April 2003 in a little black book by my bed. I am well down on previous years, but I note that over the past few years the number of books I have read has been steadily decreasing. I don't include books I have read for my studies unless they have been so well written and amusing that I would choose to read them in preference to a novel or autobiography! Looking down the list there is just one such book.

So here's the list:

They Were Sisters - Dorothy Whipple

The Bone Garden - Tess Gerritsen

Rifling Through My Drawers - Clarrissa Dickson Wright

Blazing Obscurity - Cive James

Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby

The Woods - Harlan Coben

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

Long Lost - Harlan Coben

The Complaints - Ian Rankin

Push - Sapphire

Hold Tight - Harlan Coben

One Day - David Nicholls

The Final Detail - Harlan Coben

Last Night In Twisted River - John Irving

Careless In Red - Elizabeth George

No Second Chance - Harlan Coben

The Girl Who Played With Fire - Steig Larsson

Doors Open - Ian Rankin

Company of Liars - Karen Maitland

Never Say Die - Tess Gerritsen

Hooked on a Murtder - Betty Hechtman

Mariane - Monica Dickens

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - Steig Larsson

The Unit - Ninni Holmqvist

The Ghost - Robert Harris

Night Music - Jojo Moyes

The Help - Kate Stockett

The Savage Garden - Mark Mills

House Rules - Jodi Picoult

The Carbon Diaries - Saci Lloyd

The 1000 Autumns of Jacob de Zoel - David Mitchell (not of Mitchell and Webb fame!)

Relentless - Simon Kernick

Slap - Christos Tsiolkas

My Life in France - Julia Child & Alex Prudhomme

French Women Don't Get Fat - Mireille Guiliano

Traitor To Memory - Elizabeth George

Dead Tomorrow - Peter James

Picture Perfect - Jodi Picould

Dead Like You - Peter James

The Corrections - Jonathan Frantzen

Moab Is My Washpot - Stephen Fry

At Home: A Short History Of Private Life - Bill Bryson

Excellent Women - Barbara Pym

Ice Cream Girls - Dorothy Komson

Day After Night - Anita Diament

Stories We Could Tell - Tony Parsons

Sisters - Rosamund Lupton

Play Dead - Harlan Coben

Bleeding Hearts - Ian Rankin writing as Jack Harvey

The Children's Book - AS Byatt

The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry

Then Again Maybe I Won't - Judy Blume

Tipping The Velvet - Sarah Waters

Long Time Coming - Robert Goddard

The Snowman - Jo Nesbo

Target - Simon Kernick

A Perfectly Good Family - Lionel Schriver

Brooklyn - Colm Tobin

Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman

A Very Private Gentleman (The American) - Martin Booth

Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey

U is for Undertow - Sue Grafton

How To Teach - Phil Beadle (yes, really, it is laugh out loud funny!)

Any Human Heart - William Boyd

I make that 65 - which looking back is the same number as for 2009 and 2008. So the decline seems to have reached a plateau! In 2004 I read 110 books - life must have been much easier with only 4 children in the house - and the numbers have fallen since then!