Top 10 Reads of 2010

Bookworm by Brian Dettmers

So here I am on Christmas eve having survived a trip to the grocery store for a few things.  I say survived because a woman in a big red SUV quite literally nearly ran us over - tapping us both with the back of her car before my husband yelled at her - an adrenalin rush I didn't need.  In any event, we're back home and plan not to leave again until at least Monday.

I've been thinking about the best books I've read this year and thought I'd list my Top 10 (which will be hard because I've read a lot of good books this year.  This isn't a best published in 2010 list - these are the best books plucked out of my reading pool for the year.  Here they are:

1. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2. The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
3. Property by Valerie Martin
4. The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell
5. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
6. The Group by Mary McCarthy
7. The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
8. Keeper by Kathi Appelt
9. Dispatches by Michael Herr
10. The Executor by Jesse Kellerman

These are linked to my reviews. It was a great reading year - I'll post a year-end wrap up post at, well, the end of the year.  Happy holidays to all.  I wish you all the joys of the season, but especially the pleasures of the table.

Fa la la la la!