Books 2010

Here are the 88 books I read or listened to in 2010.

The ones I especially liked are marked with ***

1. Hickory Dickory Dock - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
2. The Sister - Poppy Adams
3. The Heretic's Daughter - Kathleen Kent, read by Mare Winningham ***
4. Yes, my Darling Daughter - Margaret Leroy
5. Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro, read by various
6. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman, read by the author ***
7. Birds of a Feather - Jacqueline Winspear, read by Kim Hicks ***
8. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
9. Touching Distance - Rebecca Abrams
10. Postern of Fate - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
11. The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway, read by Gareth Armstrong ***
12. An Incomplete Revenge, Jacqueline Winspear, read by Orlagh Cassidy ***
13. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winnifred Watson, read by Frances McDormid ***
14. Digging to America - Anne Tyler, read by Blair Brown
15. Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
16. Lulu in Marrakech - Diane Johnson, read by Justine Eyre
17. The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
18. The Island - Victoria Hislop
19. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert, read by the author ***
20. The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister, read by Cassandra Campbell
21. A Carribean Mystery - Agatha Christie, read by Rosalind Ayres 
22. The Black Tower - Louis Baynard, read by Simon Vance
23. Peril at End House - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
24. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, read by Martin Jarvis *** funny
25. Among the Mad - Jacqueline Winspear, read by Orlagh Cassidy ***
26. The Book of Tomorrow - Cecelia Ahern
27. Appointment with Death - Agatha Christie, ready by Hugh Fraser
28. The Devil's Company - David Liss, read by Simon Vance 
29. The Aviary Gate - Katie Hickman, read by Josephine Bailey
30. Lady Susan - Jane Austen, ready by cast
31. Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne, read by Simon Prebble
32. The Postmistress - Sarah Blake
33. Noah's Compass - Anne Tyler
34. Why didn't they ask Evans? - Agatha Christie, read by Emilia Fox
35. Behind the scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson ***
36. Every Man Dies Alone - Hans Fallada *** Amazing!
37. The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson, read by Lincoln Hoppe *** odd but good?
38. The Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
39. The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paola Giordano
40. Heaven is Small - ? 
41. Brava, Valentina - Adriana Trigiani
42. Messenger of Truth - Jacqueline Winspear ***
43. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt - Beth Hoffman, read by Jenna Lamia
44. The Lady and the Poet - Maeve Haran
45. Silent Scream - Lynda La Plante
46. One, Two, Buckle my Shoe - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
47. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson ***charming
48. Above Suspicion - Lynda La Plante *** first Anna Travis novel
49. Red Dahlia - Lynda La Plante ***
50. The Mapping of Love & Death - Jacqueline Winspear ***
51. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson - ***addictive!
52. The Girl who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson - ***action!
53. The Girl who Kicked a Hornet's Nest ***satisfying end to trilogy
54. Fever Dream - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
55. A Pocket Full of Rye - Agatha Christie, read by Rosalind Ayres
56. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova, read by cast ***
57. Maisie Dobbs - Jacqueline Winspear, read by Rita Barrington *** first in the series
58. Taken by the Flood - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
59. Stone's Fall - Iain Pears, read by Roy Dotrice, John Lee, Simon Vance ***
60. The Tale of Halcyon Crane - Wendy Webb, read by Cassandra Campbell
61. Jingo - Terry Pratchett, read by Tony Robinson
62. Bloodroot - Amy Greene, read by a full cast ***
63. The Unbearable Lightness of Scones - Alexander McCall Smith, read by David Rintoul
64. The Wild Things - Dave Eggers, read by Dion Graham
65. 26A - Diana Evans, read by Adjoa Andoh
66. The Twentieth Wife - Indu Sundaresan, ready by Sneha Mathan
67. 50 is the new Fifty - Suzanne Braun Levine
68. Then we came to the end - Joshua Ferris, read by Deanna Hurst
69. Chocolat - Joanne Harris, ready by Diana Bishop
70. A very long engagement - Sebastien Japriot, read by Isabel Keating ***
71. The return of the Dancing Master - Henning Mankell, ready by Grover Gardner 
72. Mr Rosenblum dreams in English - Natasha Solomns
73. Hecctor and the Search for Happiness - Francois Lelord
74. An Irish Country Girl - Patrick Taylor, ready by Terry Donnelly
75. Into the Blue - Robert Goddard, ready by Paul Shelley ***
76. Fever of the Bone - Val McDermid ***
77. Room - Emma Donaghue ****Extraordinary!
78. The Woodcutter - Reginald Hill ***
79. The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh, ready by Simon Vance
80. The Long Kill - Reginald Hill ***
81. Firewall - Henning Mankell
82. Mind's Eye - Hakan Nesser
83. Evil under the Sun - Agatha Christie, read by David Suchet
84. Jasmyn - Alex Bell
85. A Secret Kept - Tatiana de Rosnay, read by Simon Vance
86. Dead Man's Folly - Agatha Christie, read by David Suchet
87. Hallowe'en Party - Agatha Christie, read by John Moffat
88. The Girl who Fell from the Sky - Heidi W Durrow (audio)