Year archive
Books selected by independent literary juries and editorial teams in 2010, gathered into one transparent, source-linked reading list. The chronology uses the award year for prizes and list year for editorial recommendations.
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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2010 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Apollo's Angels by Jennifer Homans was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2010 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Historians from 2060 travel to wartime Britain to observe the Blitz, Dunkirk, and civilian life, but failures in their return points leave them stranded. As they search for one another, they fear their presence may alter the history they were trained only to witness.
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2010 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2010 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2010 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Patti Smith recalls her formative friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe and their creative lives in 1970s New York.
Inventive lyrics combine music, race, desire, family, and American popular culture in shifting forms.
At a failing West Virginia racetrack, horsemen, grooms, gamblers, and hustlers converge around four races. A newcomer’s ambition collides with dangerous bargains.
An autistic girl seeks closure and connection after her brother dies in a school shooting.
Room by Emma Donoghue was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2010 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Selected Stories by William Trevor was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2010 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Inspector Tyador Borlú investigates a murder spanning Besźel and Ul Qoma, two cities occupying the same physical space whose citizens are trained to ignore one another. His inquiry tests the border maintained by perception, law, and the feared authority known as Breach.
A reported account of the late Cold War weapons race and the hazardous arsenal left behind.
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2010 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Julian Treslove’s fascination with his Jewish friends intensifies after a mugging leaves him questioning identity and belonging. His comic self-absorption intersects with grief and arguments about Jewish life.
Harrison Shepherd works for Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Leon Trotsky before becoming a novelist. Diaries trace how public fear and McCarthyism reshape his life.
A year after his twin sister disappears, thirteen-year-old Johnny Merrimon continues searching while his family collapses under grief. Detective Clyde Hunt remains obsessed with the case, and another disappearance brings the boy's dangerous private investigation into the open.
Nearly wordless watercolors retell Aesop's fable of a small mouse returning a great lion's mercy.
The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2010 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2010 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
In a climate-ravaged Bangkok, calorie companies control food genetics while engineered organisms and crop diseases reshape political power. Emiko, an artificial person abandoned by her owner, becomes entangled with corporate espionage and Thailand's struggle for autonomy.
As clock repairer George Crosby lies dying, memory carries him toward childhood and his epileptic father. Their lives unfold through landscapes, hallucinations, abandonment, and craft.
A New York sixth grader receives mysterious notes that seem to predict events and demand a difficult act.