New York Magazine’s Sam Anderson picks his ten favorite books of the year (with four votes for the some of the top contenders for our Best of the Best of 2010 list): 1. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen 2. Nox, Anne Carson 3. The Anthology of Rap, ed. Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois 4. The Professor and Other Writings, Terry Castle 5. Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey 6. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot 7. The Pregnant Widow, Martin Amis 8. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, trans. Lydia Davis 9. The Possessed, Elif Batuman 10. And the Pursuit of […]
