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| Salon.com – Best Fiction 2010 |
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| Time Magazine – Top 10 Fiction Books |
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| Publisher’s Weekly – Best Books of 2010 |
| Note: There are 100 books on this list (fiction and nonfiction); the top ten are listed below. |
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| The New York Times – The Best Books of 2010 (fiction) |
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| Amazon.com – Editors’ Top 10: Literature & Fiction |
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| Barnes and Noble Best of 2010 (fiction) |
| Note: There are 25 books on this list; the first 10 are listed below. |
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| Quill & Quire Magazine – Books of the Year 2010 (fiction) |
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 | 1. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens |
 | 2. Major Pettigrew''s Last Stand, by Helen Simonson |
 | 3. Full Dark, No Stars, by Stephen King |
 | 4. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling |
 | 5. Delores Claiborne, by Stephen King |
 | 6. Absalom!, Absalom!, by William Faulkner |
 | 7. Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson |
 | 8. A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness |
 | 9. The Ruby in the Smoke, by Phillip Pullman |
 | 10. Bloodroot, by Amy Greene |
 | 11. Lark and Termite, by Jayne Anne Phillips |
 | 12.The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate , by Jacqueline Kelly |
 | 13.The Red Garden, by Alice Hoffman |
 | 14.Pictures of You, by Caroline Leavitt |
 | 15.The Peach Keeper, by Sarah Addison Allen |
 | 16.Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy |
 | 17. Dead Witch Walking, by Kim Harrison |
 | 18. The Good, the Bad, and the Undead, by Kim Harrison |
 | 19. Every Witch Way but Dead, by Kim Harrison |
 | 20. Duma Key, by Stephen King |
 | 21. A Fistful of Charms, by Kim Harrison |
 | 22. For a Few Demons More, by Kim Harrison |
 | 23. The Outlaw Demon Wails, by Kim Harrison |
| 24. For a Few Demons More, by Kim Harrison |
 | 25. White Witch, Black Curse, by Kim Harrison |
 | 26. Black Magic Sanction, by Kim Harrison |
 | 27. Pale Demon, by Kim Harrison |
 | 28. The Book of Lost Things, by Jim Connolly |
 | 29. The Hangman's Daughter, by Oliver Pötzsch |
 | 30. The Passage, by Justin Cronin |
 | 31. The Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin |
 | 32. A Clash of Kings, by George R. R. Martin |
 | 33. Storm of Swords, by George R. R. Martin |
 | 34. A Feast of Crows, by George R. R. Martin |
 | 35. 11.22.63, by Stephen King |
 | 36. Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn |
 | 37. The Invention of Hugo Caberet, by Brian Selznick |
 | 38. The Dark Canoe, by Scott O'Dell |
 | 39. Room, by Emma Donaghue |
 | 40. Shadow of the North, by Philip Pullman |
 | 41. Fever 1793, by Laura Halse Anderson |
 | 1. Let the Great World Spin, by Column McCann |
 | 2. The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman |
 | 3. The Story of Forgetting, by Stefan Merrill Block |
 | 4. The Sugar Queen, by Sarah Addison Allen |
 | 5. We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver |
 | 6. Night Watch, by Sarah Waters |
 | 7. Little Bee, by Chris Cleave |
 | 8. The God of Animals, by Aryn Kyel |
 | 9. A Beautiful Blue Death, by Charles Finch |
 | 10. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver |
 | 11. Hatchet, by Paulsen |
 | 12. Plainsong, by Kent Haruf |
 | 13. Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L''Engle |
 | 14. Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater |
 | 15. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. |
 | 16. Graceling, by Kristen Cashore |
 | 17. Ender''s Game, by Orson Scott Card |
 | 18. Reality Check, by Peter Abrahams |
 | 20. Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikaelsen |
 | 21. Tinkers, by Paul Harding |
 | 22. The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen |
 | 23. Half a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
 | 24. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Allan Bradley |
 | 25. The Penderwicks, by Jeanne Birdsall |
 | 26. The Silver Swan, by Benjamin Black |
 | 27. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, by Stephenie Meyer |
 | 28. Wildthorn, by Jane Eagland |
 | 29. Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris |
 | 30. The Lonely Tree, by Yael Politis |
 | 31. The Good Thief, by Hannah Tinti |
 | 32. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris |
 | 33. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris |
 | 34. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris |
 | 35. Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris |
 | 36. Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris |
 | 37. All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris |
 | 38. From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris |
 | 39. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris |
 | 40. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris |
 | 41. Under the Dome, by Stephen King |
 | 42. 1st to Die, by James Patterson |
 | 43. 2nd Chance, by James Patterson |
 | 44. 3rd Degree, by James Patterson |
 | 45. 4th of July, by James Patterson |
 | 46. Shanghai Girls, by Lisa See |
 | 47. The Day the Falls Stood Still, by Cathy Marie Buchanan |
 | 48. The Wife, by Meg Wolitzer |
 | 49. Breath, by Tim Winton |
 | 50. The Weed That Strings the Hangman''s Bag, by Alan Bradley |
 | 51. Await Your Reply, by Dan Chaon |
 | 52. A Far Cry from Kensington, by Muriel Spark |
 | 53. The Prime of Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark |
 | 54. The Ten Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer |
 | 55. Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami |
 | 56. The Stranger, by Albert Camus |
 | 57. The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass |
 | 58. A Study in Scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
 | 59. Sign of the Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
 | 60. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
 | 61. The Adventurers by Harold Robbins |
 | 62. The Finishing School by Muriel Spark |
 | 63. In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O''Brien |
 | 64. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
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Glad to see someone compiled a list of all of these! Very helpful! Great post.
I have bought a bunch of books for gifts, but none on those lists. Bought one for hubby as I had heard several chapters of the audio book on Sirius radio. Also ordered 4 copies of My Little Red Book by Rachel Kauder Nalefuff. I had won a copy in the summer and loved it so much that I just had to share it.
I find it interesting, but not surprising, that I haven’t heard of many of these books. I do have The Surrendered I won from a blogger, but haven’t read it — it’s a chunkster.
It’s funny that you mention it – but I hadn’t heard of a lot of these either. I feel left out at the end of the year when some of these lists come out. Where have I been? Since there a 3 or 4 most of them seem to agree on, I will definitely be reading a few from these lists. Can’t be out in the cold on the best of the year!