!~Best Books of 2010~!

Top 5 Fiction

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Freedom by Jonathan Franzen   Available August 31, 2010  599 reviews (576p) (NYTimes Best of 2010) (TIME Best of 2010) (Amazon Best of 2010) Author: TotNom=4 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Available June 8, 2010  71 reviews (288p) (NYTimes Best of 2010) (TIME 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

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To the End of the Land by David Grossman Available September 21, 2010  44 reviews (592p) (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

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell  Available June 29, 2010  159 reviews (496p) (TIME 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

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The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman Available April 6, 2010  204 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

Top 5 Nonfiction

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson Available September 7, 2010  103 reviews (480p) (NYTimes Non 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

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Available February 2, 2010  410 reviews (p) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee Available November 16, 2010  54 reviews (592p) (NYTimes Non Best of 2010) (TIME Non 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

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Just Kids by Patti Smith Available January 19, 2010  115 reviews (304p) (NBA Non finalist) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand Available November 16, 2010  230 reviews (496p) (TIME Non 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

Other Notable Fiction

Fun with Problems by Robert Stone Available January 11, 2010  47 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  132 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  41 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  34 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  80 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  64 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  52 reviews (480p) 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  136 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  58 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  37 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  140 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  91 reviews (602p) (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

Private Life by Jane Smiley Available May 4, 2010  68 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  15 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  5 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  933 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  41 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  33 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  95 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  12 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  115 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  69 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  387 reviews (336p) (Booker finalist) (NYTimes 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  3 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  50 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  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

Nemesis by Philip Roth Available October 12, 2010  34 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  43 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  17 reviews (320p) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page link