Books I've read in 2010

Part of my goal to be a great writer is to read as much as possible, which I hope can only improve my writing. The books I read last year were:

• Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• The Other Boleyn Girl and its sequel The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
• Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
• Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Black Dahlia by James Elroy
• Breath by Tim Winton
• Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch
• The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
• The Tea Rose and its sequel The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelley
• The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
• Mister God, This is Anna by Fynn
• A Simpler Time by Peter FitzSimons
• Daughters of Nazareth by Patricia Hughes
• The Quest by Wilbur Smith
• A Room At the Top by Heath Ducker
• Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace
• Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• Tuscan Rose by Belinda Alexandra
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• The Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson 
• Down Under by Bill Bryson, and
• Night Street by Kristel Thornell

2010 was a wonderful year of reading, but I didn't achieve much writing!