Amazon's Best Books of 2010

Title

Author

Call Number

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

921 LAC

Faithful Place

Tana French

FIC FRE

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

Karl Marlantes

FIC MAR

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand

921 ZAM

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

304.8 WIL

Freedom: A Novel

Johnathan Franzen

FIC FRA

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Stieg Larsson

FIC LAR

To the End of the Land

David Grossman

FIC GRO

Just Kids

Patti Smith

921 SMI

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis

332.6 LEW

The Imperfectionists: A Novel

Tom Rachman

FIC RAC

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

John Green

YA FIC GRE

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Helen Simonson

FIC SIM

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured Allied Victory

Ben Macintyre

940.54 MAC

The Passage

Justin Cronin

FIC CRO

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Gail Caldwell

070.92 CAL

Worth Dying For

Lee Child

FIC CHI

WAR

Sebastian Junger

958.104 JUN

Skippy Dies: A Novel

Paul Murray

FIC MUR

How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe

Charles Yu

FIC YU

Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory

Peter Hessler

303.48 HES

Full Dark, No Stars

Stephen King

FIC KIN

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Bill Bryson

643 BRY

Art & Max

David Wiesner

JE WIE

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession

David Grann

081 GRA

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

FIC EGA

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

John Vaillant

599.756 VAI

Room: A Novel

Emma Donoghue

FIC DON

By Nightfall: A Novel

Michael Cunningham

FIC CUN

Maybe This Time

Jennifer Crusie

FIC CRU

The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century

Amanda Hesser

641.5 HES

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the World

Mary Roach

571.09 ROA

Travels in Siberia

Ian Frazier

957 FRA

Every Last One: A Novel

Anna Quindlen

FIC QUI

Life

Keith Richards

921 RIC

Fall of Giants

Ken Follett

FIC FOL

The Heroes of Olympus, Book One: Lost Hero

Rick Riordan

J FIC RIO

Moonlight Mile

Dennis Lehane

FIC LEH

Bloodroot

Amy Greene

FIC GRE

Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour

Lynne Olson

940.53 OLS

So Cold the River Michael Koryta FIC KOR

Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

Hampton Sides

364.152 SID

Great House: A Novel

Nicola Krauss

FIC KRA

Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel

Gary Shteyngart

FIC SHT

Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth

James M. Tabor

796.52 TAB

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

Paul Greenberg

333.958 GRE

Revolution

Jennifer Donnelly

YA FIC DON

Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

Bill McKibben

304.2 MCK

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

616.99 MUK

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

S. C. Gwynne

978.004 GWY

The Invisible Bridge

Julie Orringer

FIC ORR

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1

Mark Twain

921 TWA

Game Change: OBama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

John Heileman

324.973 HEI

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel

David Mitchell

FIC MIT

Parrot and Olivier in America

Peter Carey

FIC CAR

The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson

FIC SAN

Where the God of Love Hangs Out

Amy Bloom

FIC BLO

The Unnamed Joshua Ferris FIC FER
Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 10) Charlaine Harris FIC HAR
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook Anthony Bourdain 921 BOU
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York Deborah Blum 614 BLU
The Wake of Forgiveness Bruce Machart FIC MAC
Horns: A Novel Joe Hill FIC HIL
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things Gail Steketee 616.85 FRO
Before I Fall Lauren Oliver YA FIC OLI
The Night Fairy Laura Amy Schlitz J FIC SCH
Innocent Scott Turow FIC TUR
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love Kristin Kimball 921 KIM
Decoded Jay-Z 921 JAY
Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson DAvis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse James L. Swanson 973.7 SWA
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Elements Sam Kean 546 KEA