Our Best of the Year lists are always the culmination of a year of eager book scouting, and then a few contentious weeks of nominating, discussing, rehashing, rereading, and sorting, and this year is no different, although our #1 pick made itself pretty plain, and left us extra time to debate the other 9 spots on the Top 10.
Here are our choices for the top 10 books of 2010:
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Faithful Place by Tana French
- Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
- To the End of the Land by David Grossman
- Just Kids by Patti Smith
- The Big Short by Michael Lewis
