Best Reading of 2010

It’s been one he** of a good reading year. I don’t know that I’ve had so much fun reading since my Nancy Drew days!

Since I love year-in-review, best-of-the-year lists, I’ve compiled a list of my favorite books of 2010.

Not all of these books were published in 2010, but most of them were.

Basically, this is a list of the books I read in 2010 that I liked best.

And, because I couldn’t help myself, I wrote about each one of them here. (Click the title below to see what I said.)

Fiction

Bliss, Remembered by Frank Deford

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

Mystery

Junkyard Dogs by Craig Johnson

Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane

Children’s Fiction

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Nonfiction

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar

The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin

The Fiddler in the Subway: The True Story of What Happened When a World-Class Violinist Played for Handouts… and Other Virtuosic Performances by America’s Foremost Feature Writer by Gene Weingarten

The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood by Jane Leavy

I am outrageously grateful to these authors for enriching my life this year.