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
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[...] Open Letters Monthly who, from what I can gather, reads literally thousands of books a year, lists his best and worst of what was published in 2010, and also expounds on them with no shortage of strong opinion: best fiction, best nonfiction, worst [...]
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