“Best” Books of 2010

Various newspapers, journals, and media outlets list their picks for “best books” published the prior year. Here is a partial listing of 2010 titles that appeared on multiple “best” lists.

FICTION

Tempt Me If You Can
Janet Chapman

Worth Dying For
Lee Child

The Passage
Justin Cronin

The Privileges
Jonathan Dee

Room
Emma Donoghue

Barely a Lady
Eileen Dreyer

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

Freedom
Jonathan Franzen

Faithful Place
Tana French

To the End of the Land
David Grossman

Maid to Match
Deeanne Gist

Lucy
Laurence Gonzales

The Hanging Tree: A Starvation Lake Mystery
Bryan Gruley

Beautiful Maria of My Soul or the True Story of Maria Garcia y Cifuentes, the Lady Behind the Song
Oscar Hijuelos

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
N. K. Jemisin

Married by Morning
Lisa Kleypas

When Harry Met Molly
Kieran Kramer

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Stieg Larsson

The Long Song
Andrea Levy

The Surrendered
Chang-Rae Lee

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Karl Marlantes

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
David Mitchell

Skippy Dies
Paul Murray

One Day
David Nicholls

The Invisible Bridge
Julie Orringer

Dream of Perpetual Motion
Dexter Clarence Palmer

The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman

Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand 
Helen Simonson

Fatal Convictions
Randy Singer

The Lonely Polygamist
Brady Udall

Anthill
E. O. Wilson

How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe
Charles Yu

NONFICTION

Hitch-22: A Memoir
Christopher Hitchens
070.4 HIT

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
304.808996 WIL

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael M. Lewis
330 LEW

Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.: How the Working Poor Became Big Business
Gary Rivlin
339.46 RIV

Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
Hampton Sides
364.1524 SID

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
616.0227 SKL

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
616.994 MUK

Life
Keith Richards, with James Fox
781.66 RIC

Just Kids
Patti Smith
781.66 SMI

Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
George Dohrmann
796.323 DOH

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand
940.547252 HIL

Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff
B CLEOPATRA

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