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Amazon Editors' Best Books of the Year 2010
Amazon Editors' Best Books of the Year 2010 names 100 books. 45 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.
- 1The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lackssource (opens in a new tab)
- 2Faithful Placesource (opens in a new tab)
- 3Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam Warsource (opens in a new tab)
- 4Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemptionsource (opens in a new tab)
- 5The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migrationsource (opens in a new tab)
- 6Freedomsource (opens in a new tab)
- 7The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nestsource (opens in a new tab)
- 8To the End of the Landsource (opens in a new tab)
- 9Just Kidssource (opens in a new tab)
- 10The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machinesource (opens in a new tab)
- 11The Imperfectionistssource (opens in a new tab)
- 12Will Grayson, Will Graysonsource (opens in a new tab)
- 13Major Pettigrew's Last Standsource (opens in a new tab)
- 14Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victorysource (opens in a new tab)
- 15The Memory Chaletsource (opens in a new tab)
- 16The Passagesource (opens in a new tab)
- 17The Hand That First Held Minesource (opens in a new tab)
- 18Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendshipsource (opens in a new tab)
- 19Worth Dying Forsource (opens in a new tab)
- 20WARsource (opens in a new tab)
- 21Skippy Diessource (opens in a new tab)
- 22How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universesource (opens in a new tab)
- 23One Daysource (opens in a new tab)
- 24Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factorysource (opens in a new tab)
- 25Full Dark, No Starssource (opens in a new tab)
- 26At Home: A Short History of Private Lifesource (opens in a new tab)
- 27Art & Maxsource (opens in a new tab)
- 28Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machinesource (opens in a new tab)
- 29Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yourssource (opens in a new tab)
- 30Memory Wall: Storiessource (opens in a new tab)
- 31The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsessionsource (opens in a new tab)
- 32The Lonely Polygamistsource (opens in a new tab)
- 33A Visit from the Goon Squadsource (opens in a new tab)
- 34The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survivalsource (opens in a new tab)
- 35Roomsource (opens in a new tab)
- 36By Nightfallsource (opens in a new tab)
- 37The Golden Agesource (opens in a new tab)
- 38Maybe This Timesource (opens in a new tab)
- 39The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Centurysource (opens in a new tab)
- 40The Art of Jaime Hernandez: The Secrets of Life and Deathsource (opens in a new tab)
- 41Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Voidsource (opens in a new tab)
- 42Travels in Siberiasource (opens in a new tab)
- 43Every Last Onesource (opens in a new tab)
- 44Lifesource (opens in a new tab)
- 45Fall of Giantssource (opens in a new tab)
- 46Our Tragic Universesource (opens in a new tab)
- 47The Heroes of Olympus, Book One: The Lost Herosource (opens in a new tab)
- 48Moonlight Milesource (opens in a new tab)
- 49Bloodrootsource (opens in a new tab)
- 50Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hoursource (opens in a new tab)
- 51So Cold the Riversource (opens in a new tab)
- 52Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassinsource (opens in a new tab)
- 53Great Housesource (opens in a new tab)
- 54Super Sad True Love Storysource (opens in a new tab)
- 55Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earthsource (opens in a new tab)
- 56Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Foodsource (opens in a new tab)
- 57The Quiet Booksource (opens in a new tab)
- 58Revolutionsource (opens in a new tab)
- 59The Wrong Bloodsource (opens in a new tab)
- 60Half a Lifesource (opens in a new tab)
- 61Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planetsource (opens in a new tab)
- 62The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancersource (opens in a new tab)
- 63Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American Historysource (opens in a new tab)
- 64The Invisible Bridgesource (opens in a new tab)
- 65Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1source (opens in a new tab)
- 66Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetimesource (opens in a new tab)
- 67Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegadesource (opens in a new tab)
- 68The Irresistible Henry Housesource (opens in a new tab)
- 69The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoetsource (opens in a new tab)
- 70The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manualsource (opens in a new tab)
- 71Parrot and Olivier in Americasource (opens in a new tab)
- 72Rock Paper Tigersource (opens in a new tab)
- 73The Way of Kingssource (opens in a new tab)
- 74Heavenly Questions: Poemssource (opens in a new tab)
- 75Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fictionsource (opens in a new tab)
- 76Extra Lives: Why Video Games Mattersource (opens in a new tab)
- 77How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speakssource (opens in a new tab)
- 78Agaatsource (opens in a new tab)
- 79The Unnamedsource (opens in a new tab)
- 80Dead in the Familysource (opens in a new tab)
- 81Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timelinesource (opens in a new tab)
- 82Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cooksource (opens in a new tab)
- 83The Asksource (opens in a new tab)
- 84The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New Yorksource (opens in a new tab)
- 85Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delightssource (opens in a new tab)
- 86How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answersource (opens in a new tab)
- 87Batwoman: Elegysource (opens in a new tab)
- 88The Wake of Forgivenesssource (opens in a new tab)
- 89Hornssource (opens in a new tab)
- 90Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Thingssource (opens in a new tab)
- 91From Seed to Skillet: A Guide to Growing, Tending, Harvesting, and Cooking Up Fresh, Healthy Food to Share with People You Lovesource (opens in a new tab)
- 92The Best of It: New and Selected Poemssource (opens in a new tab)
- 93Before I Fallsource (opens in a new tab)
- 94The Night Fairysource (opens in a new tab)
- 95Innocentsource (opens in a new tab)
- 96The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Lovesource (opens in a new tab)
- 97Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemenssource (opens in a new tab)
- 98Decodedsource (opens in a new tab)
- 99Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpsesource (opens in a new tab)
- 100The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elementssource (opens in a new tab)
About the Amazon Editors' Best Books of the Year
2006 is the editors' Top 50 and 2007-2012 the editors' Top 100, taken from archived Amazon list pages (Wayback Machine); 2006-2010 ranks are printed on the page, 2011-2012 ranks cover only the press release's top 10. 2013-2023 hold the ranked Top 10 from Amazon's press releases and 2024-2025 the ranked Top 20 from About Amazon, because the full Top 100 for 2013 onward survives only as paginated Amazon search pages that the Wayback Machine did not capture.
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