Books Read in 2010

Abbey: Fire on the mountain

Arnosky: Watching desert wildlife

Beaton: Death of a cad

Beaton: Death of a dustman

Berg: Open house

Bradley: Imperial cruise; a secret history of empire and war (read a review from the New York Times)

Brocket: The gentle art of domesticity

Bryson: A short history of nearly everything

Burkett, Douglas W.: Amphibians and Reptiles of White Sands Missile Range; Field guide 2008

Cabeza de Baca: We fed them cactus

Carroll: From the teeth of angels

Carroll: The ghost in love

Chen: A year in Upper Felicity; life in a Chinese village during the Cultural Revolution

Childs: The secret knowledge of water

Cleaveland: No life for a lady

Cunkle: Kokopelli's cook book

Delany: In the shadow of the glacier

Delany: Winter of secrets

Doctorow: Homer & Langley

Evanovich: Fearless fourteen

Evanovich: Finger lickin' fifteen

Evans: Promise me

Flowers: A science odyssey; 100 years of discovery

Goudge: The golden skylark and other stories

Grimes: The Black Cat

Grimes: Dust

Grimes: The Old Wine Shades

Grimes: The Winds of Change

Hazen-Hammond: Only in Santa Fe

Hessler: Oracle bones; a journey between China's past and present

Hunner: Las Cruces

Jensen: The sisters from Hardscrabble Bay

Krumgold: ... And now Miguel

Le Guin: The farthest shore

Le Guin: The other wind

Le Guin: Tales from Earthsea

Le Guin: Tehanu

Le Guin: The tombs of Atuan

Le Guin: A wizard of Earthsea

Lin-Liu: Serve the people; a stir-fried journey through China

Livesey: Eva moves the furniture

MacDonald: Finding footprints; tracking the path of scientific discovery

MacLeod: Something in the water

MacLeod: Vane pursuit

Marcus: Golden legacy; how Golden Books won children's hearts, changed publishing forever, and became an American icon along the way

McCall Smith: The careful use of compliments (Isabel Dalhousie Novel, No.4)

McCall Smith: The comforts of a muddy Saturday (Isabel Dalhousie Novel, No.5)

McCall Smith: Finer points of sausage dogs (Portuguese Irregular Verbs, No. 2)

McCall Smith: Friends, lovers, chocolate (Sunday Philosophy Club/Isabel Dalhousie Novel, No. 2)

McCall Smith: La's orchestra saves the world

McCall Smith: The right attitude to rain (Isabel Dalhousie Novel, No. 3)

McCall Smith: The unbearable lightness of scones (44 Scotland Street Series)

Menzies: 1421; the year China discovered America (you will find interesting discussions of the book here and here)

Moore: Cricket in the web; the 1949 unsolved murder that unraveled politics in New Mexico

Moore: Dirty job*

Moore: Island of the sequined love nun

Moore: Practical demonkeeping

Moore: The risk of infidelity index

Moore: The stupidest angel

New Mexico farms and ranches: Folks and fixin's

New Mexico Magazine's More of the best from New Mexico kitchens

Niffenegger: Her fearful symmetry

Pillsbury: Roots in adobe

Pillsbury: Star over adobe

Powell: Julie & Julia

Priestley: Journeys of faith; the story of Preacher and Edith Lewis

Quinn: Dog on it

Quinn: Thereby hangs a tail

Rendell: Not in the flesh

Richardson: Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast

Richardson: Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast pillow book

Seton: Green darkness

Seton: Katherine

Seton: The turquoise

Siddons: Colony

Siddons: Downtown

Siddons: Hill towns

Siddons: Islands

Siddons: Off season

Siddons: Sweetwater Creek

Taylor: The Asey Mayo trio

Taylor: Counter culture; the American coffee shop waitress

Taylor: An Irish country doctor

Taylor: An Irish country village

Tweit: Barren, wild, and worthless; living in the Chihuahuan Desert

van de Wetering: Outsider in Amsterdam

Walsh: An Irish country childhood

Walsh: It's all too much; an easy plan for living a richer life with less stuff

West: Mermaids in the basement

Winspear: Messenger of truth

Winspear: Pardonable lies

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*Buck, this is the book for you. It may be perfect for you, too, Pat. Read it and tell me if you think that Mary would like it.