The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health- 5 stars

#1 for 2011

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health, by T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II, Howard Lyman, and John Robbins

One could be infuriated if one had the time...

so in 2010...

I read:

1. Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly
2. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz
3. Raw Family: A True Story of Awakening by Victoria, Igor, Sergei, & Valya Boutenko
4. McGee & Stuckey’s Bountiful Container: Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers by Rose Marie Nichols McGee & Maggie Stuckey
5. Amerika by Franz Kafka
6. America by (The Daily Show with) Jon Stewart
7. A People’s History of the United States 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
8. Deceiver by C.J. Cherryh
9. Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Barnes & Noble edition published 2007
10. Final Harvest by Emily Dickinson & Thomas H. Johnson <--- FAR SUPERIOR
11. Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
12. Mating: A Novel by Norman Rush
13. People Skills by Robert Bolton
14. Native Tongues by Charles Berlitz
15. Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation by Michael Agar
16. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin
17. World Cultures: Russia by Stephen and Tatyana Webber
18. Legions of Hell by C.J. Cherryh
19. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
20. The Argument Culture: Stopping America’s War of Words by Deborah Tannen
21. The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
22. Innerfar and Bluff (or The Southern Cross) by Gerhard Kopf
23. Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, by Fritz Haeg , Diana Balmori, Rosalind Creasy
24. Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov
25. ET 101: The Cosmic Instruction Manual for Planetary Evolution by Zoev Jho
26. The Faded Sun Trilogy (Kesrith, Shon’jir, Kutath) by C.J. Cherryh
27. Regenesis, by C.J. Cherryh
28. Of Woman Born, by Adrienne Rich
29. Born To Run, by Christopher McDougall
30. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
31. The Moon Is Always Female by Marge Piercy
32. Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India by Roberto Calasso
33. Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage by Mary Daly
34. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (The Official Novelization), by Robert Greenberger
35. The Judgment, and In The Penal Colony, by Franz Kafka
36. Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry, by Delfina Vannucci and Richard Singer
37. The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
38. James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl
39. Watership Down by Richard Adams
40. The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
41. The Gerson Therapy: The Proven Nutritional Program for Cancer and Other Illnesses

Of those, sixteen are fiction (if one includes the cosmic instruction manual in "fiction"), twenty one are non-fiction (without counting the poetry or Jon Stewart either way), and three have the word Hell in the title.  ;)  Actually, four are explorations of insanity.

My top 3 fiction picks:  Watership Down.  After that it gets really hard.  Faded Sun.  All the Kafka.  (After that it gets even harder.)

My top 3 nonfiction picks:  A People's History, Testimony, and Gyn/Ecology.  (Sweetness and Power was quite a revelation too, though.)

Over all, a superb year for reading.  Couple of bumps, but that's okay.