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Sometimes it is difficult to determine whether a book is M/T or not. I may move some things around. For example: Jim Butcher's Dresden Files is cataloged in Fantasy, but they are mystery and/or thriller as well.

TOPS:
THE 19TH WIFE - David Ebershoff
STILL ALICE - Lisa Genova
THE HELP - Kathryn Stockett

Best non-M/T
Game Change: Heilemann/Haperin

best non m/t reads
blessings of the animals- katrina kittle
the story sisters- alice hoffman
the island- elin hilderbrand
every last one- anna quindlen
the help- kathryn stockett
the red thread- ann hood
the endless forest - sara donati
the hunger games- suzanne collins

Best non M/T reads:

The Queen's Governess by Karen Harper
The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Barry wrote: "Best non-M/T
Game Change: Heilemann/Haperin"

I really enjoyed Game Change!

Sherry: Every Last One will be on my top list this year too. It was a haunting book. I was absolutely enthralled with The Story Sisters. I gave DD a copy and she read it in one sitting. It took me longer because I listened to the audio read by Nancy Travis. I can still hear her voice and I read it in 2009. Very powerful, it made my top list last year. I have several others from your list on my wish list too!
Sherry wrote: "best non m/t reads the story sisters- alice hoffman"

Wall, Carolyn Sweeping Up Glass
Quindlen, Anna Every Last One
Hoffman, Beth Saving Ceecee Honeycutt
Cronin, Justin The Passage
Anderson, Laurie Halse Speak
Paolini, Christopher Brisingr
Grahame-Smith, Seth Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Stiefvater, Maggie Shiver
Garcia, Kami Beautiful Creatures
Webber, Heather Truly, Madly

Best non M/T reads

To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
Noah's Compass - Anne Tyler
No Way to Treat a First Lady - Christopher Buckley
One Day - David Nicholls

Top non M/T reads

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War - Karl Marlantes

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Michael Lewis

Cornflakes with John Lennon: And Other Tales from a Rock 'n' Roll Life - Robert Hilburn

20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill

Midnight Cowboy - James Leo Herlihy

When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball - Seth Davis

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime - John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

Bringing the Heat - Mark Bowden

Best Non M/T

The Lace Makers of Glenmara - Barbieri
I Am the Messanger - Zusak
Room - Donoghue
One Good Dog - Wilcon

Best Non M/T's:
Windy City, Scott simon
Pope of Greenwich Village, Vincent Patrick
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Telegraph Days, Larry McMurtry

Best Non M/T's:
Truly, Madly - Heather Webber
A Quilter's Holiday - Jennifer Chiaverini

Best Non M/Ts:
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia (one of the prettiest covers of the year!)
The Dark Divine by Bree Despain
Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs
A Visitor's Guide to Mystic Falls: Your Favorite Authors on The Vampire Diaries by Leah Wilson
Ghost Town by Rachel Caine
Late, Late at Night by Rick Springfield
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Ranch Wife by Ree Drummond (this cookbook was a bit different and I've really enjoyed it. Stories & lots of pictures. I'd never heard of her before I got this book!)
Truly, Madly by Heather Webber

Melodie: I loved these too! I am following up with the second books in 2011, so I picked up Beautiful Darkness at the library today and hope to get to it soon as well as Linger which is in one of my tbr piles! I picked up Late, Late at Night too, but DD took it home with her. After I heard that Rick Springfield reads the book himself, I got the audio too. ;)

Melodie wrote: "Best Non M/Ts: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia (one of the prettiest covers of the year!)"

Cheryl, I'm waiting to get
Still Alice from the library. It sounds like a tough read, I hope it's not too tough.

Cheryl wrote: "STILL ALICE - Lisa Genova ..."

Best non M/T Readsof 2010

That Old Cape Magic
Home to Big Stone Gap
Empire Falls
Every Last One
South of Broad
Night

Meredith

The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Luis Zafon
The Help by Katherine Stockett

The Shadow of the Wind is a bit of mystery/thriller so Cheryl feel free to move it if you wish.

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Cheryl, I'm waiting to get
Still Alice from the library. It sounds like a tough read, I hope it's not too tough.

It's tough, but I also found the main character very inspiring.

Top 10 non-m/t's:

April and Oliver~Tess Callihan
Fire Along the Sky~Sara Donati
Leaving the World~Douglas Kennedy
Roses~Leila Meachum
Outlander~Diana Gabaldon
The Vanishing Point~Mary Sharratt
Stoner~John Williams
The Blessings of the Animals~Katrina Kittle
The Summer Garden~Paullina Simons
Outside the Ordinary World~Dori Ostermiller

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Cheryl, I'm waiting to get
Still Alice from the library. It sounds like a tough read, I hope it's not too tough.

Cheryl wrote: "STILL ALICE - Lisa Genova ...""

it's really good, carol. tough yet touching.

I very seldon read fiction that isn't a mystery. I find I prefer non fiction. This year I enjoyed quite a few:
1. The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine by Gregg Olsen
2. The Rape of Nanking: The forgotten Holocaust of WWII by Iris Chang(this author committed suicide last year, she was very passionate about the subject of this book)
3. Chasing Justice by Kerry Max Cook
4. The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron by Howard Bryant
5. Columbine by David Cullen
6. This Time Together, Laughter and Reflection by Carol Burnett
7. John by Cynthia Lennon
8. The Day the Earth Caved In, An American Mining Tragedy by Joan Quigley

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Cheryl, I'm waiting to get
Still Alice from the library. It sounds like a tough read, I hope it's not too tough.

Cheryl wrote: "STILL ALICE - Lisa Genova ...""

It's tough, but very good!

I plan to read Still Alice someday, but am not ready yet.
Thanks for the testimonials.
"Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Cheryl, I'm waiting to get Still Alice from the library. It sounds like a tough read, I hope it's not too tough.
Sherry wrote: it's really good, carol. tough yet touching.
JanG wrote: It's tough, but very good!
Cheryl wrote: It's tough, but I also found the main character very inspiring. "

Most of mine are non m/t this time. I hope ot get more of a mix this year. It just seemed that those were the top for the year.

1. Prince of Lost Places by Kathy Hepinstall
2. Brava Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
3. Before the storm by Diane Chamberlain
4. Loves me, Loves me not by Heidi Betts
5. Virgin river series books by Robyn Carr
6. The Passage by Justin Cronin
7. The Wildwater Walking club by Claire cook.

Top 10 non m/t
1. The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
2. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
3. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
4. Comeback by Claire and Mia Fontaine
5. Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White
6. The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
7. Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer
8. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
9. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
10. The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy

Hotel New Hampshire was no Garp, but it was pretty good anyway.

Barry wrote: "Hotel New Hampshire was no Garp, but it was pretty good anyway."

I haven't read Garp yet, but I have loved every Irving book that I have read.

I LOVED GARP!! It was a most powerful book. Read it years ago and still remember parts of it and how it made me feel.
"Barry wrote: "Hotel New Hampshire was no Garp, but it was pretty good anyway."
Rebekkila wrote: "I haven't read Garp yet, but I have loved every Irving book that I have read."

I remember when they made that movie. Part of it was done at the airport my me. That is the one that the plane flies into the house right? I was living in FL at the time at work and the family all went to see them filming that part of the movie. They had the house up for along time and I saw that. All it was, was a big cardboard picture of a house. I forgot what other parts of the movie they did here but it was a few.

Barry wrote: "Hotel New Hampshire was no Garp, but it was pretty good anyway."

I've never read anything by Irving, but for some reason DH read GARP. I can't remember why, but I remember him saying how much better it was than the movie. I don't think I've ever seen the movie either.

Garp, the movie, was a pretty good effort. Garp the book I read while at sea when I was in submarines. We were on a 3 month patrol and had one copy of the book for 150 people. Every 6 hours you had to hand off the book to somebody else. The only thing near as popular was Winds of War.

Barry:
Now that is a shared book memory hard to top!
Barry wrote: "Garp, the movie, was a pretty good effort. Garp the book I read while at sea when I was in submarines. We were on a 3 month patrol and had one copy of the book for 150 people. Every 6 hours you had to hand off the book to somebody else. The only thing near as popular was Winds of War."

Rebekkila wrote: "Top 10 non m/t
1. The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
2. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
3. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
4. Comeback by Claire and Mia Fontaine
5. Mama Makes Up Her Mind by B..."

Loved Lonesome Dove. Later I bought the dvd. It's one of my all time favorites.
BTW, McMurtry lives in Archer City, Texas. Many years ago he bought most of the buildings in the town square and opened used book stores. I got a chance to see him one time there. He does not do autographs, he doesn't like to be disturbed.