2010 Books

Here's the books I read in 2010. I read 35 books, down from 44 last year. And look, I made a chart showing books per year for the last 5 years!

Waiter Rant, Steve Dublanica

JPod, Douglas Coupland

The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

The Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt

The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among other Feats of Genius, Andrew Robinson

Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive-Thinking Has Undermined America, Barbara Ehrenreich

Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities, Jeff Mapes

The Talent Code: Greatness isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How., Daniel Coyle

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines, Richard Muller

NurtureShock: New Thinking about Children, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman

American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns. The Supressed History of our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper that Tried to Report It, Richard N. Rosenfeld

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but not the French, Jean Benoît-Nadeau and Julie Barlow

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, John J.Ratey with Eric Hagerman

$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change our Lives for the Better, Christopher Steiner

The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less: How the Culture of Abundance Robs us of Satisfaction, Barry Schwartz

Merchanter's Luck, C. J. Cherryh

The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester

Born to Run, Christopher McDougall

Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian

Programming Google App Engine, Dan Sanderson

Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh

The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, Graham Robb

Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon

The Trade of Queens, Charles Stross

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel H. Pink

Singularity Sky, Charles Stross

Iron Sunrise, Charles Stross

The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep, William C. Dement

Bike Snob: Systemantically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling, Eben Weiss (Bike Snob NYC)

Drink This: Wine Made Simple, Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914, Barbara W. Tuchman

No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945, Norman Davies

The Cyclist's Manifesto: The Case for Riding on Two Wheels Instead of Four, Robert Hurst

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, Rich Pearlstein