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Publishers Weekly's Best Books Of The Year (awards)

This award was given to 65 books.


  1. The Pregnant Widow

    by Martin Amis

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  2. The Privileges

    by Jonathan Dee

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  3. Rai Rahotep Trilogy: Book 2

    Tutankhamun

    The Book of Shadows

    by Nick Drake

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  4. Extraordinary Renditions

    by Andrew Ervin

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  5. Dublin Murder Squad: Book 3

    Faithful Place

    by Tana French

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  6. To the End of the Land

    by David Grossman

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  7. The Four Stages of Cruelty

    by Keith Hollihan

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  8. Father of the Rain

    by Lily King

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  9. Our Kind of Traitor

    by John le Carré

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  10. Beneath the Lion's Gaze

    by Maaza Mengiste

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  11. How to Read the Air

    by Dinaw Mengestu

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  12. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

    by David Mitchell

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  13. Sourland

    Stories

    by Joyce Carol Oates

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  14. Years of Red Dust: Stories of Shanghai

    by Qiu Xialolong

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  15. The Imperfectionists

    by Tom Rachman

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  16. Invisible Boy

    by Cornelia Read

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  17. Vestments

    by John Reimringer

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  18. Rusty Sabich: Book 2

    Innocent

    by Scott Turow

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  19. Self Portraits

    Fictions

    by Frederic Tuten

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  20. Parrot and Olivier in America

    by Peter Carey

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  21. Agaat

    by Marlene Van Niekerk

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  22. The Possessed

    Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

    by Elif Batuman

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  23. Let's Take the Long Way Home

    A Memoir of Friendship

    by Gail Caldwell

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  24. Composed

    by Rosanne Cash

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  25. About a Mountain

    by John D'Agata

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  26. Travels in Siberia

    by Ian Frazier

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  27. The Lost Cyclist

    The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance

    by David V. Herlihy

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  28. Apollo's Angels

    A History of Ballet

    by Jennifer Homans

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  29. Hero

    The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

    by Michael Korda

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  30. The Last Boy

    Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood

    by Jane Leavy

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  31. Colonel Roosevelt

    by Edmund Morris

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  32. The Grace of Silence

    A Memoir

    by Michele Norris

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  33. Yellow Dirt

    An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed

    by Judy Pasternak

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  34. Let the Swords Encircle Me

    Iran - A Journey Behind the Headlines

    by Scott Peterson

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  35. Listen to This

    by Alex Ross, Alex Ross

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  36. Being Wrong

    Adventures in the Margin of Error

    by Kathryn Schulz

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  37. Contested Will

    Who Wrote Shakespeare?

    by James S. Shapiro

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  38. Bomber County

    The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War

    by Daniel Swift

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  39. Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

    by Mark Twain

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  40. The Tiger

    A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

    by John Vaillant

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  41. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.

    Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman

    by Sam Wasson

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  42. The Master Switch

    The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

    by Tim Wu

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  43. The Emperor of All Maladies

    A Biography of Cancer

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  44. Washington

    A Life

    by Ron Chernow

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  45. Newsflesh: Book 1

    Feed

    by Mira Grant

    Year: 2010
    Category: SF/Fantasy/Horror
  46. The Inheritance Trilogy (Jemisin): Book 1

    The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

    by N. K. Jemisin

    Year: 2010
    Category: SF/Fantasy/Horror
  47. The Inheritance Trilogy (Jemisin): Book 2

    The Broken Kingdoms

    by N. K. Jemisin

    Year: 2010
    Category: SF/Fantasy/Horror
  48. Dark Matter: Book 2

    A Special Place

    The Heart of a Dark Matter

    by Peter Straub

    Year: 2010
    Category: SF/Fantasy/Horror
  49. The Necromancer Chronicles: Book 2

    The Bone Palace

    by Amanda Downum

    Year: 2010
    Category: SF/Fantasy/Horror
  50. Who Fears Death

    by Nnedi Okorafor

    Year: 2010
    Category: SF/Fantasy/Horror

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