Top 10 Books of 2010 - People's Choice

For this list, Mockingjay is encompassing the popularity of the whole Hunger Games series. The first two books -- The Hunger Games and Catching Fire were also very popular in 2010. Mockingjay, the final book in the trilogy, was highly anticipated and didn't let readers down.

• Read a complete review of Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• Mockingjay Book Club Discussion Questions
• Hunger Games and Catching Fire Review

Like Mockingjay, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson was the third book in a trilogy, and all three topped bestsellers lists in 2010. The suspense trilogy takes place in Sweden and involves social outcast computer hacker Lisbeth Salander teaming up with a journalist, Mikael Blomkvist.

• Read a complete review of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
• Read a complete review of The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
• Read a complete review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Help by Kathryn Stockett is the story of a young white woman in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s and a group of black maids who work for the families of her friends. Stockett writes about the struggles the women face as they chafe against the written and unwritten rules that limit their lives. The novel was released in 2009, but became even more popular in 2010 and will surely gain even more interest when the movie version is released in 2011.

• Read a complete review of The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Help Book Club Discussion Questions

In The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, released this year, readers catch a quick glimpse of the Twilight universe through the eyes of a newly created vampire. This short novel begins just days before Bree and her fellow new vampires attack the Cullen family at the end of Eclipse, and if you've read that story, you know when it ends. Written from Bree's perspective in the same way the Twilight books are written from Bella's, Bree Tanner gave Twilight fans a reason to read again in 2010.

• Read a complete review of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer

Charlaine Harris' beloved telepathic waitress, Sookie Stackhouse, returned in Dead in the Family, the tenth installment in Harris' Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Series. The Southern Vampire Series follows vampires, weres and shifters that have "come out of the closet" and revealed their existence to the ordinary world. The whole series remained very popular in 2010.

• Read a complete review of the first book in the Southern Vampire series, Dead Until Dark.
• Harris' Southern Vampire series is the inspiration for HBO's TV series, True Blood.

Released in the spring of 2010, Women, Food, and God by Geneen Roth followed up her bestseller, When Food Is Love. Roth looks at what our compulsion to eat says about our core beliefs. Her mix of diet, spirituality and self-help struck a cord with readers.

Four years after it was first published, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin continued to attract readers. Three Cups of Tea is the true story of Mortenson's work building schools in remote villages in Pakistan.

• Read a complete review of Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Three Cups of Tea Book Club Discussion Questions

The movie version of Eat, Pray, Love hit theaters in 2010, pushing this bestseller back into the limelight. Eat, Pray, Love is Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir about spending a year in Italy, India and Indonesia after going through a difficult divorce.

• Read a complete review of Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Eat, Pray, Love Book Club Discussion Questions
• Eat, Pray, Love Movie Information

Although it was not released until November, Decision Points by George W. Bush topped bestsellers lists at the end of the year and became one of the most popular books of the year. Seems folks were interested in what the former President had to say.

Sh*t my Dad Says by Justin Halpern is a book based on Halpern's Twitter feed, which he started to record the salty comments his dad made when he moved back in with his parents. In the fall of 2010, CBS aired a sitcom based on the book and feed.