My Favorite Books of 2010

2010 Fiction = Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
2010 Fiction (Audio Book) = The Lightkeeper’s Daughter by Iain Lawrence
2010 Nonfiction = The Naked Now by Richard Rohr
2010 Nonfiction (Audio Book) = Constantine’s Sword by James Carroll

Not 2010 favorites, but terrific reads . . .
The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl
Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

2009 Fiction = Christ in Concrete by Pietro DiDonato
2009 Fiction (Audio Book) = Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen; Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
2009 Nonfiction = Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality by Richard Rohr; Where God Was Born by Bruce Feiler
2009 Nonfiction (Audio Book) = The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezzi; Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler

2008 Fiction = Exiles by Ron Hansen
2008 Fiction (Audio Book) = The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezzvani
2008 Nonfiction = Moral Discernment by Richard M. Gula, SS
2008 Nonfiction (Audio Book) = N/A

2007 Nonfiction (Audio Book) = Beyond Belief by Ann Pagels
2007 Fiction (Audio Book) = Lisey’s Story by Stephen King; Underworld by Don DeLillo
2007 Fiction = A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
2007 Nonfiction = What Paul Meant by Garry Wills and 101 Questions & Answers on the Bible by Raymond E. Brown

2006 Fiction (Audio Book) = The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
2006 Fiction = The Rising Tide, by Jeff Shaara
2006 Nonfiction (Audio Book) = The Intimate Merton: His Life From His Journals

2005 Nonfiction = Credo, by William Sloane Coffin
2005 Fiction = The Green Age of Asher Witherow, by M. Allen Cunningham
2005 Fiction (Audio Book) = The Short Stories ,Volume III, by Ernest Hemingway and Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo

2004 Nonfiction = On Writing by Stephen King
2004 Fiction = The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
2004 Fiction (Audio Book) = The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant

2003 Nonfiction = The Life You Save May be Your Own by Paul Elie
2003 Fiction (a tie!) = Orchard by Larry Watson & Parts Unknown by Kevin Brennan

2002 Nonfiction = Against an Infinite Horizon by Ronald Rolheiser
2002 Fiction = Lost Nation by Jeffrey Lent

2001 Nonfiction = The Holy Longing by Ronald Rolheiser
2001 Fiction = Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

2000 Nonfiction = The Spiritual Path of Caryll Houselander by Joyce Kemp
2000 Fiction = Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende and The Testament by John Grisham
2000 Fiction (Audio Book) = The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

1999 Nonfiction = How Shall We Sing by Aline P'Nina Tayar
1999 Fiction = The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

The Book I wish I’d written = Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (2001)
Best Nonfiction Book = The Life You Save May be Your Own by Paul Elie (2003)