NZ Herald: best books of 2010

Book of the Year Inspirational Gardens of NZ

• Kevin McCloud's 43 Principles of Home
• Home Work by John Walsh
• At Home: A short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
• History of Gardening in NZ by Bee Dawson

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• Brian Brake: Lens on the World
• Classic: The Revival of Classic Boating in NZ
• Decade (Phaidon)
• Dress Circle (hist of fashion in NZ)

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• God is Back by John Micklethwait & Adrian Woolridge
• God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
• Wrestling with God by Lloyd Geering
• Religious Atheist: Critical Essays on the work of Geering
• The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
• Jesus for the Non Religious by John Shelby Spong

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• Life by Keith Richards
• Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg
• The Elephant to Hollywood by Michael Caine
• Life and Times of a Brown Paper Bag by Kevin Milne
• Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchen
• Wilson Whineray Story by Bob Howitt
• Mad World: Evelyn Waugh & the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne
• Loving All of It ed by Gordon McLauchlan

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• How I Cook by Skye Gyngell
• Kitchen by Nigella Lawson
• Comfort: Food for Sharing
• What to cook and how to cook it by Jane Hornby
• Bill's basics by Bill Granger
• Vegetarian Option by Simon Hopkinson

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• Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
• To the End of the Land by David Grossman
• Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
• Gifted by Patrick Evans
• In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
• Their Faces were Shining by Tim Wilson
• Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
• Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett
• Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
• Heartbreak by Craig Raine

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• This Body of Death by Elizabeth George
• Florence and Giles by John Harding
• Dandy Gilver & the Proper Treatment of Blood Stains by Catriona McPherson
• Shadows in the Street by Susan Hill
• Tony & Susan by Austin Wright

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• The Qantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
• Land of the Burning Sands by Rachel Neumeier
• Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
• Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
• Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

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• Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• One Secret Summer by Leslie Lokko
• So What if I'm Broken by Anna McPartlin
• Rescue by Anita Shreve
• Forgotten by Susan Lewis

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• Virtual Kombat by Chris Bardford
• Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
• Ganglands Russia by Ross Kemp
• The Dead by Charlie Higson
• Witch & Wizard by James Patterson
• I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
• Little Vampire Women 
• Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn
• Boys Don't Cry by Malorie Blackman
• Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight by Jenny Valentine

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• The Project by Brian Falkner
• Longest Whale Song by Jacqueline Wilson
• Weidstone of Brisingamen by Alan garner
• Madame Pamplemousse and the Enchanted Sweetshop by Rupert Kingfisher
• Totally Bindi by Bindi Irwin
• Kiwi Fossil Hunter's Handbook by James Crampton
• Billionaire Boy by David Walliams
• Gulliver's Travels adapted by Sarah Willson
• Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
• Naughty Kid's Book of Nature by Des Hunt

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• Willbee the Bumblebee by Craig Smith
• Hill & Hole by Kyle Mewburn
• Monn & Farmer McPhee by Margaret Mahy
• Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers
• Alf Red's Broccoli Rocket by Simon Clearwater
• Scaredy-Cat Splat! by Rob Scotton
• It's a Book by Lane Smith
• Tall Man & 12 Babies by Tom Niland Champion
• Morris the Mankiest Monster by Giles Andrae
• Brian Saves Christmas by Yvonne Morrison

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