Phern's Favorite Novels of 2010

-Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and all the Millenium Trilogy, Steig Larrson

-Shadow Tag, Lousie Erdrich (fascinating but bleak story of a marriage)

-Little Bee, Chris Cleave (African-English culture collision on the beach)

-The Double Comfort Safari Club, Alexander McCall Smith, and all Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency series

-The Lost Art of Gratitude, Alexander McCall Smith, and all Isabel Dalhousie series

-The Spellman Files, Lisa Lutz, and all in this series. (funny SF family of detectives)

-Room, Emma Donoghue (told from perspective of 5 year old boy, being held captive with his mother)

-Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese (Epic story: twins born to a nun, and the adoptive family of doctors who raise them in Ethiopia)

-Red Hook Road, Ayelet Waldman (Tragic loss involves two families and how they deal with it)