Staff Favorite Reads of 2010
Nonfiction Favorites
The graphic novels, cookbooks, memoirs, poetry, animal stories, and in-depth studies we’ve enjoyed most in 2010.
General Nonfiction
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell, 2005
153.44 / GLA
LP / 153.44 / GLA
Favorited by Eleanore
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
Gretchen Craft Rubin, 2009
158 / RUB
Favorited by one staff member
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell, 2008
158.1 / GLA
LP / 158.1 / GLA
BOD / 158.1 / GLA
Favorited by Eleanore
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow
the Bible as Literally as Possible
A.J. Jacobs, 2007
220 / JAC
BOD / 220 / JAC
LP / 220 / JAC
Favorited by Shih-Mei
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell, 2000
302 / GLA
BOD / 302 / GLA
Favorited by Eleanore
The Spies of Mississippi:
The True Story of the Spy Network that
Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
Rick Bowers, 2010
323.1196 / BOW
Favorited by one staff member
Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election
that Changed Everything for
American Women
Rebecca Traister, 2010
324.973 / TRA
Favorited by Kasia
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis, 2010
330.973 / LEW
Favorited by Brian L.
Among the Thugs
Bill Buford, 1991
363.32 / BUF
Favorited by Brian L.
Orange is the New Black:
My Year in a Woman’s Prison
Piper Kerman, 2010
365.43 / KER
Favorited by Kasia
Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries
Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2007
523.1 / TYS
Favorited by Donica
Earth Then and Now:
Amazing Images of Our Changing World
Fred Pearce, 2010
550 / PEA
Favorited by one staff member
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Bailey, Elisabeth Tova, 2010
594.38 / BAI
Favorited by Kasia
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, 2010
616.02774 / SKL
Favorited by Melissa and Kasia
Unhooked: How Young Women
Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and
Lose at Both
Laura Sessions Stepp, 2007
646.77 / STE
Favorited by one staff member
Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
Adrienne Martini, 2010
746.432 / MAR
Favorited by Mary WT
The Baseball Codes:
Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and
Bench-Clearing Brawls
Jason Turbow, 2010
796.357 / TUR
Favorited by Susan D.
Good Poems for Hard Times
Selected by Garrison Keillor, 2005
808.81 / GOO
LP / 808.81 / GOO
Favorited by one staff member
The New Kings of Nonfiction
Edited by Ira Glass, 2007
810 / NEW
Favorited by Brian L.
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
Kay Ryan, 2010
811.54 / RYA
Favorited by one staff member
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventure Stories
Malcolm Gladwell, 2009
814.6 / GLA
Favorited by Eleanore
The Double Life is Twice as Good
Jonathan Ames, 2009
818.54 / AME
Favorited by John
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide
to the Art of Long-Term
World Travel
Rolf Potts, 2003
910.2 / POT
Favorited by Jordan
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen, 1983
967.62 / DIN
CSSP / 976.62 / DIN
LP / 976.62 / DIN
Favorited by one staff member
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil:
A Savannah Story
John Berendt, 1994
975.8724 / BER
LP / 975.8724 / BER
Favorited by Heather
Biographies & Memoirs
The Color of Water:
A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride, 1996
306.8743 / MCB
Favorited by Elaine H.
Hungry
Crystal Renn, 2009
362.196 / REN
Favorited by one staff member
Life
Keith Richards, 2010
781.66 / RIC
Favorited by one staff member
I Love You, Miss Huddleston, and Other
Inappropriate Longings
of my Indiana Childhood
Philip Gulley, 2009
818.6 / GUL
Favorited by Susan D.
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick, 2009
951.93 / DEM
Favorited by Marnie
Fidel and Che: A Revolutionary Friendship
Simon Reid-Henry, 2008
972.91 / REI
Favorited by one staff member
Seeking Enlightenment—Hat by Hat:
A Skeptic’s Path to Religion
Nevada Barr, 2003
B / Barr, Nevada
Favorited by one staff member
Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff, 2010
B / Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
Favorited by Lisa
Julian of Norwich: A Contemplative Biography
Amy Johnson Frykholm, 2010
B / Julian of Norwich
Favorited by Donica
Memoirs of Food Critic Ruth Reichl, including:
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Comfort Me with Apples
Tender at the Bone
Ruth Reichl, 1998-2005
B / Reichl, Ruth
LP / B / Reichl, Ruth
Favorited by Becky B.
Cookbooks & Food
Good Eats: The Early Years
Alton Brown, 2009
641.5 / BRO
Favorited by Sarah
The New York Times Cookbook
Edited by Amanda Hesser, 2010
641.5 / HES
Favorited by Lisa
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Julie Powell, 2009
641.5092 / POW
BOD / 641.5092 / POW
Favorited by Sarah
For You Mom, Finally
Ruth Reichl, 2010
641.5092 / REI
Favorited by Becky B.
In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite:
150 Recipes and
Stories about the Food You Love
Melissa Clark, 2010
641.59 / CLA
Favorited by Lisa
Graphic Novels
The Alcoholic
Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel
741.504 / AME
Favorited by Jordan
The Unwritten Series, including:
Tommy Taylor and the
Bogus Identity Inside Man
Mike Carey and Peter Gross, 2010
741.504 / CAR
Favorited by Brian L.
Stitches: A Memoir
David Small, 2009
741.504 / SMA
Favorited by one staff member
Pets & Animals
Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love
Larry Levin, 2010
636.7081 / LEV
Favorited by Chris
You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the
Secrets of Happiness
Julie Klam, 2010
636.7527 / KLA
Favorited by Chris
Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or,
How
I Learned about Love and Life
with a Blind Wonder Cat
Gwen Cooper, 2009
636.8092 / COO
LP / 636.8092 / COO
Favorited by Lynn T.
The Daily Coyote:
A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust
in the Wilds of Wyoming
Shreve Stockton,
636.977 / STO
Favorited by Chris
