| Book | Author | Date Finished | Comments |
| Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha | Dorothy Gilman | 01-01 | I'm still working my way through my re-read of Mrs. Pollifax from beginning to end. |
| Here If You Need Me: A True Story | Kate Braestrup | 01-03 | This book made me laugh, and cry, and laugh – often in the same chapter or on the same page. It has good things to say about love, family, religion, recovery, and the Greatwhatevermayormaynotbe. |
| Laughter of Dead Kings | Elizabeth Peters | 01-10 | I am so sad that Peters seems to be done with Vicky Bliss. |
| The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family | Dan Savage | 02-21 | This is often sweet and often biting. The parts where he was preaching to the choir were a little bit slow; the parts I liked best were when he talked about his partner, their son, and his mom, and how their family fit together. |
| A Three Dog Life: A Memoir | Abigail Thomas | 03-02 | In the same genre as Here If You Need Me, not quite as well written, still worth reading. |
| Murder Carries a Torch: A Southern Sisters Mystery | Anne George | 03-08 | If you like your mysteries fun and rompy, read the Southern Sisters books (if you like the Stephanie Plum books, I think you'll like these.). Start at the beginning, Murder on a Girls Night Out. |
| Murder Boogies with Elvis | Anne George | 03-19 | More Southern Sisters. |
| Iron Kissed | Patricia Briggs | 03-31 | I love the Mercy Thompson series. She's what Anita Blake should have been, and I've been foisting the books at anyone who sits still long enough. |
| Once Bitten, Twice Shy | Jennifer Rardin | 04-12 | Vampires, assassins, CIA agent, action plot that mostly holds together. Not as good as Anita Blake, still compulsively reading. |
| Strangers in Death | J.D. Robb | 04-14 | Eminently readable, and there's about 800 of them in the series. |
| Another One Bites the Dust | Jennifer Rardin | 04-24 | More Jaz Parks. |
| Salvation in Death | J. D. Robb | 05-01 | More in Death. |
| In the Bleak Midwinter | Julia Spencer-Fleming | 05-11 | Excellent. Heartbreaking. I want to read the rest of the series, and I'm a little scare d to, because I like Clare and Russ so much. |
| The Language of Bees | Laurie R. King | 06-10 | LRK writes a lovely Holmes series. I love Russel. Start at the beginning, The Beekeepers Apprentice. |
| Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle | Dorothy Gilman | 06-23 | More Mrs. Pollifax. |
| Promises in Death | J.D. Robb | 06-30 | This series really does keep getting better and better. |
| Ex and the Single Girl | Lani Diane Rich | 07-07 | I am a total sucker for the 'estranged Southern girl goes home, makes good' trope. |
| Billionaires Prefer Blondes | Suzanne Enoch | 07-28 | Fun, fluffy, this is a good cross-genre series. |
| Bone Crossed | Patricia Briggs | 07-29 | More Anita Blake. |
| Finger Lickin' Fifteen | Janet Evanovich | 08-03 | A fun entry in the Stephanie Plum series. Not quite as good as Fourteen, better than many. The characters are growing, which I don't expect in my fluff (but is always nice), but it relied too much on that old chestnut, the exploding car. |
| Maybe Baby | Lani Diane Rich | 08-11 | Cute, fluffy, not as good as Ex and the Single Girl (though, admittedly, that is mostly me and not the book). I liked the characters. I will be reading more Lani Diane Rich. |
| Greywalker | Kat Richardson | 08-24 | Good, not great. I loved the characters, but the book got weighted down a bit in its own plot. Good enough that I have the second one out from the library, ready to go. :) |
| Hot Under Pressure | Kathleen O'Reilly | 08-29 | Fun, meatier than you might expect. Nice characters. Enjoyable fluff. I'm discovering that I don't like sex so much in my books, not because I object to the sex, but because it interrupts the story. |
| Poltergeist | Kat Richardson | 09-05 | Still good, still go weighted down in its own plot, but I still like the characters. So. |
| Murder With Mirrors | Christie Agatha | 09-17 | Nice. Cozy. Clever. |
| The Family Vault | Charlotte MacLeod | 09-22 | Nice. Good characters. Much darker than I expected. I'm eating the rest of the series like candy. Read them if you like your mysteries cozy. :) |
| The withdrawing room | Charlotte MacLeod | 10-14 | These are mostly scratching the itch that, say, the Southern Sisters books or the Vicky Bliss books do. Which means that I am going to read them all very quickly and be very sad when there's no more left. |
| The Palace Guard | Charlotte MacLeod | 10-21 | … and more of the same. |
| Underground | Kat Richardson | 10-25 | Still weighted down by their own plot, still can't put them down. |
| The Bilbao Looking Glass | Charlotte MacLeod | 11-02 | Omnomnomnom. |
| A Pocket Full of Rye | Agatha Christie | 11-13 | Fun, not enough Miss Marple. |
| Don't Bend Over in the Garden, Granny, You Know Them Taters Got Eyes | Lewis Grizzard | 12-02 | Lewis Grizzard always scratches the right itch. |
| Biting the Bullet | Jennifer Rardin | 12-16 | More Jaz Parks. Still over the top, still tasty. |
| Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting | Michael Perry | 12-27 | A lovely rumination on family, work, relationships, fatherhood. |
| 84, Charing Cross Road | Helene Hanff | 12-30 | Sometimes, you need a little comfy rereading. |
My only reading goal for this year was that I read more than 2008 (24 books) which I did (I'm at 35 this year). 2010's only reading goal is that I read more than this year. :) (Hitting 50 would be nice, but we'll see.) Also, I've joined a group over on Library Thing that's running an off the shelf challenge for this coming year, so I'll be trying to read 12 books I already own.
