C - Thomas McCarthy

Gilead - Marilynne Robinson

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson

The Tin Drum - Gunther Grass

The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barberry

The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing - Darina Al-Joundi, translated by Mohammed Kacimi

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera

Year in Reading, in review:

This is my top 10 list of books that I read in 2010. (In no particular order.) There are some honorable mentions, of course, but I didn’t just want to write a list of all the books I read this year! I am so happy to see that my picks weren’t all old white dudes, as is normally the case with me. It made me happy to look back on my literary year, and I feel proud of the fact that I wrote about all the books I read.

Goals for 2011:

I really hope to read more in 2011, of course, and I want to write better reviews. I’ve been focusing a lot on contemporary authors, and I want to continue in the same vein. More nonfiction. I’m really looking forward to Wallace’s Pale King, I want to reread Infinite Jest, and I’m excited for Pornografia by Witold Gonbrowicz. I got a giant pile of books for Christmas, and I already started Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov. I’m happy to start out the year reading one of my favorite writer’s seminal work.