2010 Book Reviews by Rating

A list of my 2010 book reviews by rating. Click the rating to jump to the corresponding section.

• 5⭐
• 4.5⭐
• 4⭐
• 3.5⭐
• 3⭐
• 2.5⭐
• 2⭐
• 1⭐
• DNF

• Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
• All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
• Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
• Annexed by Sharon Dogar
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
• Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
• The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
• The Secret Lives of Princesses by Philippe Lechermeier
• She-Rain by Michael Cogdill
• Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
• Soulless by Gail Carriger
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
• War For The Oaks by Emma Bull
• Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier

• Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

• Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising by Jason Henderson
• The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King
• Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
• The Bells by Richard Harvell
• Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
• Bloody Jack by L. A. Meyer
• Blue Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews
• The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
• The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
• The Bright Forever by Lee Martin
• Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Changelessby Gail Carriger
• The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
• The Classics by Caroline Taggart
• The Clearing by Heather Davis
• Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran
• The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C. W. Gortner
• Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
• Cybele’s Secret by Juliet Marillier
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Dust City by Robert Paul Weston
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
• Everlasting by Angie Frazier
• The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey
• The Fairy-Folk and She by Mary-Anne Grosse Ivie
• Forbidden Sea by Sheila A. Nielson
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
• The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Ice Soldier by Paul Watkins
• The Jewel of St. Petersburg by Kate Furnivall
• Juliet by Anne Fortier
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
• Lumby on the Air by Gail Fraser
• Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living by Bailey White
• Madapple by Christina Meldrum
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman
• Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
• Muse and Reverie by Charles de Lint
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris
• One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Poison by Sara Poole
• Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
• The Rise of Renegade X by Chelsea Campbell
• Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership With a Search-and-Rescue Dog by Susannah Charleson
• Serena by Ron Rash
• Shadow of the Swords by Kamran Pasha
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
• Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• Spell Hunter by R. J. Anderson
• Storm Front by Jim Butcher
• The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
• Thumb Flagging by Jerome Peterson
• The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
• Under the Dome by Stephen King

• Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson
• The Blind Contessa’s New Machine by Carey Wallace
• The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• The Sandman Vol. II: The Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman et al
• The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
• Spilling the Beans on the Cat’s Pajamas by Judy Parkinson
• The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore
• Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George
• Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler
• The Temptation of the Night Jasmine by Lauren Willig
• Truly, Madly by Heather Webber

• The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Ash by Malinda Lo
• Black Mountain Breakdown by Lee Smith
• Bound Southby Susan Rebecca White
• By Fire, By Water by Mitchell James Kaplan
• Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens–3 Stars
• Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell
• The Dark Divine by Bree Despain
• Daughter of My People by James Kilgo
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Duchess of Aquitaine by Margaret Ball
• The Education of Bet by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
• Everything is Going to be Great: An Overexposed and Underfunded European Grand Tour by Rachel Shukert
• The Fetch by Laura Whitcomb
• Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The Haunting of Andrew Sharpai by Jerome Peterson
• Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception by Maggie Stiefvater
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
• Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
• The Outer Banks House by Diann Ducharme
• Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
• The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Sandman Vol. I: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman et al
• Sent: The Missing: Book Two by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
• Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
• Thumbing Through Thoreau compiled by Kenny Luck
• Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
• Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
• The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi
• World Without End by Ken Follett

• Random Magic by Sasha Soren
• Venom by Joan Brady

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• People of the Sword by Neil O’Donnell

• Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

• Dracula in Love by Karen Essex

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