I want to thank all C&L readers for their support of our book, Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane. David and I are very proud of it and that it proved, with all the tea party craziness during the election, to be a timely book. But after all the reading and research I had to do in writing the book, I needed to take a break from reading political books.

But getting back into it, I just started Matt Taibbi's new book which is his explanation of how financial meltdown occurred and his chapter on Alan "Mr. Andrea Mitchell" Greenspan's Randian worship of John Galt and all things Ayn is worth the price of admission.

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

A great holiday read.

We get a lot of books sent to us and I asked Nicole what books she was reading. She's currently reading "Rebooting The American Dream" by Thom Hartmann. Truthout is making chapters available online once a week and we'll try to get Thom here for a book chat soon.

She's also reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and the Girl With A Dragon Tattoo trilogy, which I heard was great.

Now that I'm getting back into the swing of things again, I want to hear from my readers. What books did you think were the best books of 2010? Not just political books, either. I'm a big fan of potboiler detective stories for the escape too.

So what books were the must-reads for you this year?