2010 Books

List of books by month with a comparison of books read This Year (TY) versus Last Year (LY).

January (TY: 11 | LY: 5)

1. Dream Girl – Lauren Mechling
2. Firespell – Chloe Neill
3. The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson & the Olympians (Book 1) – Rick Riordan
4. Captivate – Carrie Jones
5. Incarceron – Catherine Fisher
6. The Sea of Monsters : Percy Jackson & the Olympians (Book 2) – Rick Riordan
7. Iron Kissed – Patricia Briggs
8. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
9. The Titan’s Curse: Percy Jackson & the Olympians (Book 3) – Rick Riordan
10. The 13 Curses – Michelle Harrison
11. The Battle of the Labyrinth: Percy Jackson & the Olympians (Book 4) – Rick Riordan

February (TY: 4 | LY: 7)

1. Cast in Secret (Chronicles of Elantra, Book 3) – Michelle Sagara
2. A Wind in the Door (Time, Book 2) – Madeleine L’Engle
3. Unbound – Kim Harrison, et al
4. Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson #4) – Patricia Briggs

March (TY: 8 | LY: 2)

1. Black Magic Sanction (The Hollows, Book 8 ) – ? Kim Harrison ?
2. Plum Spooky (Stephanie Plum Between-the-Numbers Novella) – Janet Evanovich
3. Midnight’s Daughter – Karen Chance
4. Big Jack (An Eve Dallas Novel) – J.D. Robb
5. Hex Hall (Book 1) – Rachel Hawkins
6. Fearless Fourteen (A Stephanie Plum Novel) – Janet Evanovich
7. Dream Life – Lauren Mechling
8. Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary (Book 4) – Brandon Mull

April (TY: 13 | LY: 5)

1. Kindred in Death – J.D. Robb
2. The Quest of the Warrior Sheep – Christian and Christopher Russell
3. Nice Recovery – Susan Juby
4. The Mage in Black – Jaye Wells
5. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake – Sarah MacLean
6. Dawnbreaker (Dark Days #3) – Jocelynn Drake
7. Fade (Dream Catcher #2) – Lisa McMann
8. The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle #3) – Libba Bray
9. Suddenly Supernatural #4: Crossing Over – Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
10. The Sugar Queen – Sarah Addison Allen
11. The Thornthwaite Inheritance – Gareth P. Jones
12. The Temptation of the Night Jasmine (Pink Carnation #5) – Lauren Willig
13. Something Wicked – Leslie Ann Cowan (posted June 1, 2010)

May (TY: 15 | LY: 5)

1. Willow – Julia Hoban
2. Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks #1) – Jennifer Rardin
3. Some Girls Bite (Chicagoland Vampires #1) – Chloe Neill
4. Black Cat (Curse Workers #1) – Holly Black
5. Evermore – Alyson Noel
6. A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time, Book 3) – Madeleine L’Engle
7. Girl in the Shadows (Windswept) – Miriam Lynch
8. Dreamdark: Silksinger (Dreamdark, Book 2) – Laini Taylor
9. The House of Three Sisters (Windswept) – Virginia Nielsen
10. The Demon’s Covenant (Demon’s Lexicon, Book 2) – Sarah Rees Brennan
11. Rebel – R.J. Anderson
12. The Merrybegot – Julie Hearn
13. The Demon’s Lexicon – Sarah Rees Brennan
14. Mistwood – Leah Cypess

June (TY: 12 | LY: 8 )

1. The Replacement – Brenna Yovanoff (posted September 3, 2010)
2. The Black Book of Secrets – F.E. Higgins
3. The Ruby Key (Moon & Sun, Book 1) – Holly Lisle
4. Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Gallagher Girls, #3) – Ally Carter
5. The Silver Door (Moon & Sun, Book 2) – Holly Lisle
6. Fablehaven: Keys to the Demon Prison (Book 5) – Brandon Mull
7. Guardian of the Gate (Prophecy of the Sisters, #2) – Michelle Zink
8. Prophecy of Days – Book 1: The Daykeeper’s Grimoire – Christy Raedeke
9. The Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles, #1) – Rick Riordan
10. She’s so Dead to Us – Kieran Scott
11. Tracking the Tempest – Nicole Peeler
12. Brightly Woven – Alexandra Bracken

(One Did Not Finish – The Iron King – Julie Kagawa)

July (TY: 17 | LY: 20)

1. The Search – Nora Roberts
2. Early to Death, Early to Rise – ? Kim Harrison ?
3. Finger Lickin’ Fifteen – Janet Evanovich
4. Pray for Dawn (Dark Days, #4) – Jocelynn Drake
5. Inside Out – Maria V. Snyder
6. Sapphique (Incarceron #2) – Catherine Fisher
7. The Owl Keeper – Christine Brodien-Jones
8. Girl’s Best Friend (A Maggie Brooklyn Mystery) – Leslie Margolis (posting October 2010)
9. Time of the Witches – Anna Myers
10. The Girl Who Could Fly – Victoria Forester
11. Class of ’88: Freshman – Linda A. Cooney
12. Class of ’88: Sophomore – Linda A. Cooney
13. Happy Birthday, Bad Kitty – Nick Bruel
14. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
15. Perchance to Dream (Théâtre Illuminata, Act II) – Lisa Mantchev
16. Class of ’88: Junior – Linda A. Cooney
17. Class of ’88: Senior – Linda A. Cooney

August (TY: 13 | LY: 13) – even steven!

1. Curse of the Wolf Girl (Kalix MacRinnalch, #2) – Martin Millar
2. Beautiful Malice – Rebecca James
3. Cast in Fury (Chronicles of Elantra, #4) – Michelle Sagara
4. Class of ’89: Freshman – Linda A. Cooney
5. Th1rteen R3asons Why – Jay Asher
6. The Kneebone Boy – Ellen Potter
7. Firelight – Sophie Jordan
8. The Eternal Ones – Kirsten Miller
9. The Day the Falls Stood Still – Cathy Marie Buchanan
10. The Healing Wars, Book 1: The Shifter – Janice Hardy
11. The Healing Wars, Book 2: Blue Fire – Janice Hardy
12. Spy Glass – Maria V. Snyder
13. Try Me (Demon Underground, #2) – parker blue

September (TY: 12 | LY: 5)

1. Luna – Julie Anne Peters
2. Fantasy in Death – J.D. Robb
3. Moon Rise (Unbidden Magic, #2) – Marilee Brothers
4. Moon Spun (Unbidden Magic, #3) – Marilee Brothers
5. The Candidates (Delacroix Academy, #1) – Inara Scott
6. The Season – Sarah MacLean
7. Paranormalcy – Kiersten White – 100th book!
8. City of Glass: The Mortal Instruments Book 3 – Cassandra Clare
9. Beautiful Darkness – Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
10. Naked Heat (Nikki Heat, #2) – Richard Castle
11. Plain Kate – Erin Bow
12. The Witches of Eileanan (Book 1) – Kate Forsyth

October (TY: 4 | LY: 6) – so sad 🙁

1. The Pool of Two Moons (Witches of Eileanan, Book 2) – Kate Forsyth
2. The Distant Hours – Kate Morton
3. Extraordinary – Nancy Werlin
4. Bitter Night – Diana Pharaoh Francis

November (TY: 3 | LY: 8 ) – even worse than last month! 🙁

1. Ten Ways to be Adored When Landing a Lord – Sarah MacLean
2. The Aristobrats – Jennifer Solow
3. The Goblin Gate (Book 2 of the Goblin Wood) – Hilari Bell

December (TY: ? | LY: 7)

1. The Body at the Tower: The Agency #2 – Y.S. Lee
2. Enna Burning (The Books of Bayern, #2) – Shannon Hale
3. Fire (The Seven Kingdoms, #2) – Kristin Cashore
4. Dragon Seer – Janet McNaughton
5. Birthmarked – Caragh M. O’Brien
6. Cast in Silence (Chronicles of Elantra, Book 5) – Michelle Sagara
7. Before I Fall – Lauren Oliver
8. If I Stay – Gayle Forman

Total: 120