Here come the Top Ten Lists

It’s not even Thanksgiving, and already I’ve seen my first top ten list of books for the year. This one comes courtesy of Library Journal magazine. It’s an inaugural list (pop the cork on the champagne!) and it reflects “fiction and nonfiction titles that stood out as the very best in 2010.” The list was compiled by a group of LJ Editors and librarians.

Here ’tis:

American Terroir by Rowan Jacobsen (Bloomsbury)

By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

How To Live, Or, a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell (Other Press)

Room by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Crown)

The Passage by Justin Cronin (Ballantine)

The Tiger by John Vaillant (Knopf)

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Random)

Walker Evans Decade by Decade text by James Crump (Hatje Cantz)

I can’t tell you how many times I see a top ten book list with titles I’ve never read. This year is different! I’ve read The Passage (see review here) and By Nightfall (review to come), and I’ve placed a hold on Room at my library. I even have Freedom on my nightstand, but I’m still not sure if I’m actually going to read it.

How ’bout you? Have you read any of these titles? If so, please share…

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