Continuing a list I began a few years ago, here are the books I read in 2010, in order. Some I’d read before (On Writing, Shoeless, The Stand), others I struggled to finish (The 300 Club and Pull Up A Chair), but all in all, I thoroughly delighted in reading most of these. 

There’s 34 books in all, easily my most prolific reading year since I was a teenager. I reviewed many of these, which you can find in my Visual Bookshelf profile on Facebook:

• The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (started in December ’09, finished in ’10)
• The End of Baseball (P. Schilling)
• A Confederacy of Dunces (O’Toole)
• Angels and Demons (D. Brown)
• The Teammates (Halberstam)
• The Long Season (Brosnan)
• Chief Bender’s Burden (Swift)
• Fifty-nine in ’84 (Achorn)
• The First Fall Classic (M. Vaccaro)
• You Gotta Have Wa (Whiting)
• Satch, Dizzy and Rapid Robert (T. Gay)
• Of Mikes and Men (Van Wieren)
• Get Capone (Eig)
• The Things They Carried (O’Brien)
• Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson (Fleitz)
• The Secret Man (Woodward)
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Larsson)
• A Woman’s Work (Mills)
• The Girl Who Played With Fire (Larsson)
• The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest (Larsson)
• The Tender Bar (Moehringer)
• On Writing (Stephen King)
• The 300 Club (Schlossberg)
• Dreaming Baseball (Farrell)
• Pull Up A Chair: The Vin Scully Story (Curt Smith)
• Strapped: Why America’s 20- and 30-somethings Can’t Get Ahead (Draut)
• ’75: The Red Sox Team That Saved Baseball (SABR BioProject)
• The Stand (King)
• Winter’s Bone (Woodrell)
• Game Six: 1975 World Series (Frost)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Diamond)
• Black Diamonds: Life in the Negro Leagues (Holway)
• Where They Ain’t: The Fabled Life and Untimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles (Solomon)
• The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood (Leavy) (started in Dec. ’10, not finished)