Salon critic Laura Miller’s top books of the year look a lot like the other lists, so our preliminary Best of the Best of 2010 compilation from last week is looking more solid by the day: FictionRoom, by Emma DonoghueA Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer EganFreedom, by Jonathan FranzenFaithful Place, by Tana FrenchSuper Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart NonfictionThe Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, by Elif BatumanThe Big Short, by Michael LewisI.O.U., by John LanchesterLet the Swords Encircle Me: Iran — a Journey Behind the Headlines, by Scott PetersonThe Immortal […]
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More Best of 2010 Lists
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 […]
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Oxford University Press announces, via Publishing Trends, that publisher of trade and academic books Niko Pfund will take on the additional position of interim president of OUP USA. The University of California Press has hired Alison Mudditt as its new executive director, taking over next month when Lynne Withey retires. She had been executive vice president in charge of higher education programs at SAGE Publications. (According to the LAT, the job pays $244,900.) Simon & Schuster associate publisher since 2004 Aileen Boyle is leaving the company at the end of the year to attend graduate school at NYU and spend […]
More Top 10 Picks, and Starting the Best of the Best of 2010
Yesterday the NYT posted their top ten books of the year. This time around the list overlaps with just three of their individual critics’ top 10 lists (whereas last year’s top 10 included five critics’ favorites). For the second year in a row, critic Dwight Garner’s nonfiction-focused choices were completely shut out from the overall top 10. The fiction list is surprising for its inclusion of two collections of previously-published stories: FictionFreedom, by Jonathan FranzenThe New Yorker Stories, by Ann BeattieRoom, by Emma DonoghueSelected Stories, by William TrevorA Visit from the Good Squad, by Jennifer Egan NonfictionApollo’s Angels: A History […]
NYT Critics’ Picks and More Lists
The New York Times has posted lists of top ten books from their individaul book critics, along with the NYTBR’s list of 100 notable books: From Michiko Kakutani: Nonfiction LIFE by Keith Richards with James Fox CLEOPATRA: A LIFE by Stacy Schiff LETTERS by Saul Bellow. Edited by Benjamin Taylor FRANK: THE VOICE by James Kaplan CRISIS ECONOMICS: A CRASH COURSE IN THE FUTURE OF FINANCE by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm YOU ARE NOT A GADGET: A MANIFESTO by Jaron Lanier Fiction SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY by Gary Shteyngart FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen THE LOST BOOKS OF THE […]
Hudson Picks Big Short As Book of the Year
Hudson Booksellers announced their lists of top 10 books of the year, which will be promoted throughout their 65 stores, and named Michael Lewis’s THE BIG SHORT as their book of the year: Best FictionThe Passage, Justin CroninRoom, Emma DonoghueA Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer EganFreedom, Jonathan FranzenTinkers, Paul HardingThe Eden Hunter, Skip HorackMatterhorn, Karl MarlantesSuper Sad True Love Story, Gary ShteyngartBitter in the Mouth, Monique TruongThe Lonely Polygamist, Brady Udall Best Non FictionThe Possessed, Elif BatumanLet’s Take the Long Way Home, Gail CaldwellThe Wave, Susan CaseySh*t My Dad Says, Justin HalpernUnbroken, Laura HillenbrandFatal System Error, Joseph MennBirdology, Sy […]