Sunday, December 26, 2010

Recap, 2010!



Worst Fiction 2010:

10. The Three Weissmanns of Westport - Cathleen Schine

9. The Scent of Rain and Lightning - Nancy Pickard

8. How to Read the Air - Dinaw Mengestu

7. Hester - Paula Reed

6. All That Follows - Jim Crace

5. The Instructions -Adam Levin

4. The Privileges - Jonathan Dee

3. The Four Fingers of Doom - Rick Moody

2. The Passage - Justin Cronin

1. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen

Worst Nonfiction, 2010:

10. The War Lovers - Evan Thomas/Imperial Cruise - James Bradley

9. Washington - Ron Chernow

8. You Are Not a Gadget - Jaron Lanier

7. Reality Hunger - David Shields

6. George Eliot in Love - Brenda Maddox

5. Hitch-22 - Christopher Hitchens/Life -Keith Richards

4. The Last Boy - Jane Leavy/The Last Hero - Howard Bryant

3. Between Two Worlds - Roxanna Saberi/Porait of a Drug Addict as a Young Man -Bill Clegg

2. Courage and Consequence - Karl Rove/Crisis & Command - Johh Yoo

1. Decision Points - George W. Bush

Best Fiction, 2010:

10. Witz -Joshua Cohen

9. You Lost Me There - Rosecrans Baldwin

8. Calendar of Regrets - Lance Olsen

7. Skippy Dies - Paul Murray

6. Easy for You - Shannan Rouss

5. Eddie Signwriter - Adam Schwartzman

4. Eight White Nights - Andre Aciman

3. Under the Small Lights - John Cotter

2. The Fairest Portion of the Globe - Frances Hunter

1. The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris

Best Nonfiction, 2010:

10 Denys Wortman's New York

9. Dickinson - Helen Vendler

8. Ratification - Pauline Maier

7. Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years - Diarmaid Macullough

6. The Book in the Renaissance - Andrew Pettegee

5. Cleopatra - Stacy Schiff

4. Americans in Paris - Charles Glass

3. American Caesars - Nigel Hamilton

2. Lost Dogs - Jim Gorant

1. The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee

 

1 comment:

The Second Pass said...

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