Best Books of 2010 Compilation of 2010 Best Books Lists by Book - Fiction (updated may 1 2011) Compilation of 2010 Best Books Lists by Book - Nonfiction (updated mar 15 2011) 04/18/2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad Wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | Finalists 03/10/2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad Wins the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 03/02/2011: 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists 02/22/2011: 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize 01/22/2011: 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists for Fiction | Nonfiction 01/09/2011: 2011 ALA Notable Fiction Books | Nonfiction 12/09/2010: TIME Magazine Top 10 Fiction Books of 2010 | Nonfiction Top 10 12/08/2010: New Yorker Reviewers' Favorites from 2010 12/05/2010: Barnes & Noble Best Books of 2010 12/02/2010: Economist Books of the Year 12/01/2010: The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010 Fiction | Nonfiction 11/08/2010: Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2010 11/04/2010: Amazon.com Best Books of 2010 10/13/2010: 2010 National Book Award for Fiction Finalists | Nonfiction Finalists 09/07/2010: 2010 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Top 5 Fiction 1 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Available June 8, 2010 377 reviews (288p) (PP winner) (NBCCA winner) (PF finalist) (NYTimes Best of 2010) (TIME Best of 2010) (LATimes winner) (ALA Best of 2010) Author: TotNom=4 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page 2 Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Available August 31, 2010 982 reviews (576p) (NBCCA finalist) (NYTimes Best of 2010) (TIME Best of 2010) (LATimes finalist) (Amazon Best of 2010) (ALA Best of 2010) Author: TotNom=5 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page 3 To the End of the Land by David Grossman Available September 21, 2010 85 reviews (592p) (NBCCA finalist) (Amazon Best of 2010) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page 4 The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell Available June 29, 2010 225 reviews (496p) (TIME Best of 2010) (ALA Best of 2010) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page 5 Skippy Dies by Paul Murray Available August 31, 2010 105 reviews (672p) (NBCCA finalist) (TIME Best of 2010) (Amazon Best of 2010) (ALA Best of 2010) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Top 5 Nonfiction 1 The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson Available September 7, 2010 273 reviews (480p) (NBCCA Non winner) (NYTimes Non finalist) (ALA Non finalist) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page 2 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Available February 2, 2010 864 reviews (p) (ALA Non finalist) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page 3 The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee Available November 16, 2010 243 reviews (592p) (NBCCA Non finalist) (NYTimes Non finalist) (TIME Non finalist) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page 4 Just Kids by Patti Smith Available January 19, 2010 264 reviews (304p) (NBCCA Autobio finalist) (NBA Non winner) (ALA Non finalist) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page 5 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand Available November 16, 2010 1811 reviews (496p) (TIME Non winner) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Other Notable Fiction Fun with Problems by Robert Stone Available January 11, 2010 49 reviews (208p) Author: TotNom=9 UnqBooks=5 PPNom=2 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris Available January 18, 2010 143 reviews (320p) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd Available January 26, 2010 55 reviews (416p) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Point Omega by Don DeLillo Available February 2, 2010 43 reviews (128p) Author: TotNom=9 UnqBooks=4 PPNom=2 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=3 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich Available February 2, 2010 101 reviews (272p) Author: TotNom=4 UnqBooks=4 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett Available February 9, 2010 71 reviews (320p) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee Available March 9, 2010 62 reviews (480p) (PP finalist) (ALA Best of 2010) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes Available March 23, 2010 572 reviews (592p) (TIME Best of 2010) (Amazon Best of 2010) (ALA Best of 2010) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman Available April 6, 2010 395 reviews (288p) (Amazon Best of 2010) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel Available April 13, 2010 164 reviews (224p) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey Available April 20, 2010 80 reviews (400p) (NBA finalist) (Booker finalist) Author: TotNom=5 UnqBooks=4 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page The Long Song by Andrea Levy Available April 27, 2010 43 reviews (320p) (Booker finalist) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Solar by Ian McEwan Available April 27, 2010 172 reviews (304p) Author: TotNom=6 UnqBooks=5 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall Available May 3, 2010 150 reviews (602p) (Amazon Best of 2010) (ALA Best of 2010) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Private Life by Jane Smiley Available May 4, 2010 78 reviews (336p) Author: TotNom=4 UnqBooks=3 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=3 NBCCAWin=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page The Marrowbone Marble Company by M. Glenn Taylor Available May 11, 2010 19 reviews (368p) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page The Spot by David Means Available May 25, 2010 6 reviews (176p) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page The Passage by Justin Cronin Available June 8, 2010 1293 reviews (784p) (TIME Best of 2010) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch Available July 6, 2010 49 reviews (416p) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page What Is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman Available July 6, 2010 42 reviews (256p) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman Available July 6, 2010 131 reviews (416p) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr Available July 13, 2010 17 reviews (256p) (Amazon Best of 2010) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart Available July 27, 2010 199 reviews (352p) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu Available September 7, 2010 122 reviews (256p) (TIME Best of 2010) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Room by Emma Donoghue Available September 13, 2010 1223 reviews (336p) (Booker finalist) (NYTimes Best of 2010) (ALA Best of 2010) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Gold Boy, Emerald Girl: Stories by Yiyun Li Available September 14, 2010 8 reviews (240p) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham Available September 28, 2010 91 reviews (256p) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Bound by Antonya Nelson Available September 28, 2010 11 reviews (240p) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Nemesis by Philip Roth Available October 12, 2010 64 reviews (304p) Author: TotNom=19 UnqBooks=12 PPNom=4 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=6 NBCCAWin=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Great House by Nicole Krauss Available October 12, 2010 89 reviews (289p) (NBA finalist) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu Available October 14, 2010 31 reviews (320p) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Don't understand the data above? 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