{"id":1210,"date":"2010-12-30T17:29:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T01:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2017-12-30T10:34:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T18:34:38","slug":"the-10-best-books-i-read-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/the-10-best-books-i-read-in-2010","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Best Books I Read in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3661 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jesuit_guide-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jesuit_guide-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jesuit_guide-500x751.jpg 500w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jesuit_guide.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>These are the best ten books I read this year in rough order of how enriching and enjoyable they were:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything<\/em> by Fr. James Martin, SJ<\/li>\n<li><em>The Road<\/em> by Cormac McCarthy<\/li>\n<li><em>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime<\/em> by Mark Haddon<\/li>\n<li><em>Cry, the Beloved Country<\/em> by Alan Paton<\/li>\n<li><em>Heaven: The Heart&#8217;s Deepest Longing<\/em> by Peter Kreeft<\/li>\n<li><em>Into the Silent Land<\/em> by Martin Laird<\/li>\n<li><em>The Children of Hur\u00edn<\/em> by J.R.R. Tolkien<\/li>\n<li><em>Deep Conversion\/Deep Prayer<\/em> by Fr. Thomas Dubay<\/li>\n<li><em>A Travel Guide to Heaven<\/em> by Anthony DeStefano<\/li>\n<li><em>The Hunger Games<\/em> by Suzanne Collins<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the best ten books I read this year in rough order of how enriching and enjoyable they were: The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything by Fr. James Martin, SJ The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Heaven: The Heart&#8217;s Deepest Longing by Peter Kreeft Into the Silent Land by Martin Laird The Children of Hur\u00edn by J.R.R. Tolkien Deep Conversion\/Deep Prayer by Fr. Thomas Dubay A Travel Guide to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1024,36,78],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-annual-favorite-reads","tag-book-recommendations","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jesuit_guide.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-jw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3662,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/3662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}