Books I wish I'd read in 2010
As the end of the year draws nigh, it's time for one of those wrap-up end-of-year best-of posts, but you might have noticed that I haven't really read any books that came out this year (as far as I can remember) so I'm ill-qualified to comment on what was best or worst in the offerings of the past twelve months. Instead, here's what I thought about reading, talked about as though I'd read, picked up idly in bookshops, read good reviews of, or otherwise toyed with:
Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Censoring an Iranian Love Story, by Shahriar Mandanipour
All the Devils are Here: the hidden history of the financial crisis, by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
How Mumbo-Jumbo conquered the world, by Francis Wheen
At Home, by Bill Bryson
A Tiny Bit Marvellous, by Dawn French
Any other suggestions?