My Top Ten for 2010

It's actually a baker's dozen!
And the truth is my very favorite book that I smile at each time I see it referenced in a blog or on a book list, my own, "Some Rivers End on the Day of the Dead."

1. Room by Emma Donoghue
2. My Hollywood by Mona Simpson
3. Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
4. Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
5. Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch
6. The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
7. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
8. A Private Life by Jane Smiley
9. A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth
10. Mornings in Jeninby Susan Abulhawa
11. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
12. The Madonnas of Echo Parkby Brandon Skyhorse
13. Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian

New authors to me that I have enjoyed:
1. RJ McDonnell
2. Bruce Judisch
3. Vince Zandri
4. Susan Abulhawa
5. Mona Simpson
6. Brandon Skyhorse
7. Laura McNeal