Best and Worst Reads of 2010

It's a new year, so I again need to sum up my reading experience of the past year. In 2010, I read 54 full length works. Included in the count are novels, short story collections, non-fiction books, plays, and screenplays.

Although I have included them in the count, some books are texts that I have read before. I have not considered them for my best and worst list since they are already among my favorites and have been numbered on lists past.

Here are my lists. I present them with no justification. If you would like to argue for or against any of them, please feel free to do so in the comments section. I doubt this will happen, of course, but the option remains open.

Five Best Fiction Books:

1. Ethan Frome--Edith Wharton

2. Long After Dark--Todd Robert Petersen

3. Mrs. Dalloway--Virginia Woolf

4. Tinkers--Paul Harding

5. Song of Solomon--Toni Morrison

Five Best Non-Fiction Books:

1. Blue Latitudes--Tony Horwitz

2. The Joseph Smith Papers: Journals, Vol. 1, 1832-1839

3. Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory--Edward J. Larson

4. A Short History of Nearly Everything--Bill Bryson

5. Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood--Douglas Thayer

Five Worst Books:

1. March--Geraldine Brooks

2. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter--Seth Grahame-Smith

3. Breaking Dawn--Stephenie Meyer

4. The Guinea Pig Diaries--A. J. Jacobs

5. Of Mice and Men--John Steinbeck