Favourite Books – 2010

I had more good reads than bad in 2010 – and 41 in total. Again a few long plane rides and trips allow for more time reading, though it’s never enough.

Here’s my 2010 list of favourite books.

Non – Fiction

• What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (really loved this one)
• On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Non-Fiction by William Zinsser  (and a surprisingly interesting read)
• Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds by Trevor Herriot
• The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
• Trekking the Globe with Mostly Gentle Footsteps: 12 Countries in 12 Months by Irene Butler
• Open by Andre Agassi
• Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
• Ten Degrees of Reckoning by Hester Rumberg
• The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession by David Grann
• Crossing the Heart of Africa by Julian Smith
• Infidel by Aayan Hirsi Ali
• Always Looking Up by Michael Fox
• Six Pixels of Separation by Mitch Joel
• Ride the Rising Wind by Barbara Kingcote
• Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Cave by James Tabor
• Pinch Me by Beth Bowles Scott

Fiction

• The City of Thieves by David Benioff
  
• Deafening by Frances Itani
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• Light Lifting by Alexander McLeod
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky
• Suite Francais by Irene Nemirovsky