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Ratings Guide: 0 to 5 ★s reflects how much I liked it (worst to best); 0 to 3 ☢s represents a content advisory (mildest to strongest).



2010

    January

  1. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall ★★ ☢☢
  2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon ★ ☢☢☢
  3. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett ★★★★
  4. It Happened in Italy by Elizabeth Bettina ★★
  5. Eugenics and Other Evils by G. K. Chesterton ★★★★★

    6. February

  6. Theatre Shoes by Noel Streatfeild ★★★★★
  7. Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick ★★★★
  8. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan ★★★★★
  9. The Selfless Gene by Charles Foster ★★★
  10. Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto ★★★★★
  11. Just Courage (audio book) by Gary Haugen ★★★
  12. A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe ★★

    13. March

  13. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin ★★★★★
  14. Saint Patrick by Jonathan Rogers ★★★★
  15. Homeschooling for the Rest of Us by Sonya Haskins ★★★★
  16. The Brothers Karamazov (audio book, abridged) by Fyodor Dostoevsky ★★★ ☢
  17. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan ★★★★★
  18. Between Heaven and Hell by Peter Kreeft ★★★★
  19. The Philosophy of Tolkien by Peter Kreeft ★★★★
  20. Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson ★★★★ Unrealistic, but a delightful vision and a fun book.
  21. The Abernathy Boys by L. J. Hunt ★★★★ Hard to believe this was published in 2004—no cussing worse than "Aunt Annie's fanny!" A little hard on the girls, but the author does his best while being true to the times. A book for Free Range Kids.

    22. April

  22. The Gobblestone School by Jacob Schriftman ★★
  23. Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson ★★★★★
  24. The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge ★★★★ ☢☢

    25. May

  25. In Tune with the World by Josef Pieper ★★★★★
  26. Food Rules by Michael Pollan ★★★ If this is the only one of Pollan's food books you read, it rates five stars. I give it three because In Defense of Food is better.

    27. June

  27. Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection by Isaac Asimov ★★★

    28. July

  28. Stained Glass Elegies by Shusaku Endo ★★★
  29. Magic: The Final Fantasy Collection by Isaac Asimov ★★★
  30. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card ★★★ ☢
  31. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card ★★
  32. Covenant and Communion: The Biblical Theology of Pope Benedict XVI by Scott W. Hahn ★★★
  33. Common Sense 101: Lessons from G. K. Chesterton by Dale Ahlquist ★★★

    34. August

  34. Getting Things Done by David Allen ★★ The content rates three stars, or maybe more; I won't know till I've worked with his ideas. The book itself only rates two, however.
  35. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer ★★★★ (Review to come)