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The votes are in for the most notable books of 2010! Based on reviews and editorial opinions from literary and publisher magazines here are some of the most notable books of the previous year.
Fiction
36 Arguments for the Existence of God
by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
F G6245t

61 Hours
by Lee Child
M C536s

American Subversive
by David Goodwillie
F G656a

Angelology
by Danielle Trussoni
F T8733a

Annabel
by Kathleen Winter
F W7852a

The Ask
by Sam Lipsyte
F L7677a

The Autobiography of Fidel Castro
by Norberto Fuentes
F F9542a

Beatrice and Virgil
by Yann Martel
F M3761b

The Beauty of Humanity Movement
by Camilla Gibb
F G437b

Blacklands
by Belinda Bauer
F B344b

Bound
by Antonya Nelson
F N424b

By Nightfall
by Michael Cunningham
F C9732b

C
by Tom McCarthy
F M12372c

Cities of Refuge
by Michael Helm
F H478c

Comedy in a Minor Key
by Hans Keilson
F K274c

The Cookbook Collector
by Allegra Goodman
F G6532c

Cool Water
by Dianne Warren
F W287c

Curiosity
by Joan Thomas
F T4582c

Death of Donna Whalen
by Michael Winter
F W786d

The Executor
by Jesse Kellerman
M K297e

Father of the Rain
by Lily King
F K532f

The Finkler Question
by Howard Jacobson
F J178f

Foreign Bodies
by Cynthia Ozick
F O99f

Freedom
by Jonathan Franzen
F F8375f

Girl by the Road at Night
by David Rabe
F R114g

The Girl who Fell from the Sky
by Heidi W. Durrow
F D9652g

Great House
by Nicole Krauss
F K912g

Horns
by Joe Hill
F H6464ho

How to Read the Air
by Dinaw Mengestu
F M544h

I Curse the River of Time
by Per Petterson
F P499ic

If the Dead Rise Not
by Philip Kerr
M K415i

Ilustrado
by Miguel Syjuco
F S982i

The Imperfectionists
by Tom Rachman
F R1192i

In a Strange Room
by Damon Galgut
F G1552in

The Invisible Bridge
by Julie Orringer
F O75i

Island Beneath the Sea
by Isabel Allende
F A4325is




 

Kings of the Earth
by Jon Clinch
F C6414k

The Long Song
by Andrea Levy
F L6681L

The Lost Books of the Odyssey
by Zachary Mason
F M4123L

The Lotus Eaters
by Tatjana Soli
F S686L

A Loyal Spy
by Simon Conway
F C767L

Lucy
by Laurence Gonzales
F G643L

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
F S6113m

The Matter with Morris
by David Bergen
F B4954m

Matterhorn
by Karl A. Marlantes
F M3472m

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
by Drew Hayden Taylor
F T2395m

Mr. Peanut
by Adam Ross
F R8233m

The Nearest Exit
by Olen Steinhauer
M S822n

Parrot and Olivier in America
by Peter Carey
F C275p

The Passage
by Justin Cronin
F C9471p

Practical Jean
by Trevor Cole
F C6892p

The Privileges
by Jonathan Dee
F D3114pr

Remarkable Creatures
by Tracy Chevalier
F C5272r

Room
by Emma Donoghue
F D6872r

The Same River Twice
by Ted Mooney
F M8182sa

Secret Daughter
by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
F G722s

Shadow Tag
by Louise Erdrich
F E663s

The Sky is Falling
by Caroline Adderson
F A223sk

Sleepless
by Charlie Huston
F H9722sL

Solar
by Ian McEwan
F M1418so

Something Red
by Jennifer Gilmore
F G4882s

Spies of the Balkans
by Alan Furst
F F991sp

Strip
by Thomas Perry
M P465st

Super Sad True Love Story
by Gary Shteyngart
F S5616s

The Surrendered
by Chang-rae Lee
F L4772s

The Swan Thieves
by Elizabeth Kostova
F K865s

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell
F M6813t

The Three Weissmanns of Westport
by Cathleen Schine
F S344th

To the End of the Land
by David Grossman
F G8787t

True Confections
by Katharine Weber
F W3741tr

The Very Thought of You
by Rosie Alison
F A414v

A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
F E28v

Waiting for Joe
by Sandra Birdsell
F B6185w


Non-Fiction


101 Theory Drive: a Neuroscientist's
Quest for Memory

by Terry McDermott
612.82 M134

The Armageddon Factor
by Marci McDonald
322.1 M135

Big Girls Don't Cry: the Election that Changed Everything for American Women
by Rebecca Traister
324.973 T768

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis
332.0423 L675

The Book of Awesome
by Neil Pasricha
158.1 P284

The Bridge: the Life and Rise of Barack Obama
by David Remnick
973.932 O12r

Changing My Mind
by Margaret Trudeau
92 T866ch

Charlie Chan: the Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History
by Yunte Huang
791.43651 A639h

Cleopatra: a Life
by Stacy Schiff
932.021 C628s

Colonel Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
973.911 R781mor

Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
by Lewis Hyde
001 H994

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
by James Shapiro
822.33A S529

Country Driving: a Journey from Farm to Factory
by Peter Hessler
915.1 H587c

Defiant Spirits
by Ross King
709.71 G882k

The Disappearing Spoon
by Sam Kean
546.8 K24

The Emperor of all Maladies: a Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
616.994 M953

Encounter
by Milan Kundera
809.04 K96

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
by Eric Foner
973.7 L736fo

Finishing the Hat
by Stephen Sondheim
782.81 S698f

Four Fish: the Future of the Last Wild Food
by Paul Greenberg
363.7592 G798

Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger
92 T2392ka

Global Warring
by Cleo Paskal
327.112 P282

The Grand Design
by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
530.142 H392

Hellhound on his Trail: the Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for his Assassin
by Hampton Sides
364.1524 K53s

Hitch-22: a Memoir
by Christopher Hitchens
92 H674

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
616 L141s

The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
by Jane Leavy
796.357 M292L

Last Call: the Rise and Fall of Prohibition
by Daniel Okrent
394.13 O41

The Last Hero: a Life of Henry Aaron
by Howard Bryant
796.357 A113b













The Last Stand

by Nathaniel Philbrick
973.82 P545

Life
by Keith Richards
781.66 R516

Long for this World: the Strange Science of Immortality
by Jonathan Weiner
612.68 W423

The Love Queen of Malabar
by Merrily Weisbord
891.4 K15w

Medium Raw
by Anthony Bourdain
641.013 B768

The Mind's Eye
by Oliver Sacks
152.14 S121

Mordecai: the Life & Times
by Charles Foran
819.092 R531f

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick
951.93 D378

Operation Mincemeat
by Ben Macintyre
940.548641 M152o

The Paper Garden
by Molly Peacock
92 D337p

Parisians: an Adventure History of Paris
by Graham Robb
944.361 R631

Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth
by Hilary Spurling
810.92 B922s

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them
by Elif Batuman
891.7 B336

The Price of Altruism
by Oren Harman
575.1 P945h

The Promise: President Obama, Year One
by Jonathan Alter
973.932 O12a

The Ptarmigan's Dilemma
by John Theberge and Mary Theberge
576.8 T375

The Publisher: Henry Luce and his American Century
by Alan Brinkley
804 L935b

The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
by Judith Shulevitz
296.41 S562

The Science of Liberty
by Timothy Ferris
303.483 F394

Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
by Jeff Shesol
347.7326 S554

The Tenth Parallel
by Eliza Griswold
297.283 G871

A Ticket to the Circus: a Memoir
by Norris Church Mailer
92 M2192

The Tiger: a True Story of Vengeance and Survival
by John Vaillant
599.756 V131

Travels in Siberia
by Ian Frazier
915.7 F848

Washington: a Life
by Ron Chernow
973.41 W318c

The Wave: in Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
by Susan Casey
551.4702 C338

What Disturbs Our Blood: a Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
by James FitzGerald
610.92 F553

Willie Mays: the Life, the Legend
by James S. Hirsch
796.357 M474h




















Notable Books 2010