Read in 2010:

January

• Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
• Clockers by Richard Price
• Raymond Carver: Collected Stories by Raymond Carver
• Paris-Roubaix: a Journey Through Hell by Phillipe Bouvet
• Stitches by David Small

February

• On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• The Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman
• Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
• Pastoralia by George Saunders

March

• Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
• Samaritan by Richard Price
• The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles by Jan Heine
• An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

April

• The Rider by Tim Krabbe
• Bloodbrothers by Richard Price
• A Dog in a Hat by Joe Parkin
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (abandoned)

May

• A Pale View of the Hills by Kazup Ishiguro
• The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald (abandoned)

June

• 23 Days in July by John Wilcockson

August

• Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis

September

• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

October

• A Sense of Where You Are by John McPhee
• The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from the New Yorker

November

• Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
• The Best American Sportswriting of the Century

December

• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (ongoing)

Makes for a total of 29 books read, 2 books abandoned. I didn’t count the pages, unfortunately. I’m amazed by how many books I read in the early part of the year…and how few I read when the weather got warm. I attribute that to a lot of bike commuting, and a couple of slow books that I wasn’t able to zip through. I’d have to say my author of the year looks like Kazuo Ishiguro, whose books I enjoyed immensely.