Here’s my list of Books that I read in 2010 (in reverse chron order). I’ll write separately about the most significant of these.
- The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
- A Universal History of Iniquity by Borges
- The Fight by Norman Mailer
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis
- The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story by Mat Johnson
- RFK Funeral Train by Norman Mailer
- So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools by Charles Payne
- Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
- The Infinity of Lists by Umberto Eco
- An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski
- The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch
- Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators by Riccardo Orizio
- Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton Christensen
- The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford
- This I Believe edited by Jay Allison
- Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda
- Pyongyang: A Journey In North Korea by Guy DeLisle
- To Teach: The Journey, In Comics by Bill Ayers
- Travels With Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
- American Apartheid by D. Massey
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Education of a British-Protected Child (Essays) by Chinua Achebe
- Disturbing the Peace by Vaclav Havel
- REWORK by Fried & Hannsson
- Nelson Mandela: A Life in Pictures by David Cohen
- “When the Game Was Ours” by Jackie MacMullan
- Building a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus
- The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran by Hooman Majd
- The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar
- Twitterature by Aciman & Rensin
- The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
- Footnotes In Gaza by Joe Sacco
- Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King
- The Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
- The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy by Bill Simmons
- The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, A Death, and America’s Dilemma by Alex Kotlowitz
- A View From Above by Wilt Chamberlain