Back on Nov. 24, the good folks at The New York Times released an interesting book list called the “New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010.”This list, which the compilers tapped as a “Holiday Gift Guide,” features titles in two broad categories Fiction & Poetry and Nonfiction. They list 48 books in the Fiction & Poetry category and 52 in the nonfiction category.
Without further ado, here's the complete list:
Fiction and Poetry
1. American Subversive by David Goodwillie
2. Angelology by Danielle Trussoni
3. The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
4. Bound by Antonya Nelson
5. Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson. Translated by Damion Searls
6. Double Happiness: Stories by Mary-Beth Hughes
7. Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
8. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
9. Fun With Problems: Stories by Robert Stone
10. Girl by the Road at Night: A Novel of Vietnam by David Rabe
11. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
12. Great House by Nicole Krauss
13. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
14. How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
15. I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson. Translated by Charlotte Barslund with Per Petterson
16. Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
17. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
18. The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
19. Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip by Lisa Robertson
20. The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2010 by Edward Hirsch
21. The Long Song by Andrea Levy
22. The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason
23. The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
24. Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
25. Memory Wall: Stories by Anthony Doerr
26. Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
27. The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer
28. The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie
29. One Day by David Nicholls
30. The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
31. Room by Emma Donoghue
32. The Same River Twice by Ted Mooney
33. Selected Stories by William Trevor
34. Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
35. Solar by Ian McEwan
36. Something Red by Jennifer Gilmore
37. Sourland: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
38. The Spot: Stories by David Means
39. Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
40. The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
41. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
42. The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
43. To the End of the Land by David Grossman. Translated by Jessica Cohen
44. Vida by Patricia Engel
45. A Visit from the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan
46. What Becomes: Stories by A.L. Kennedy
47. White Egrets: Poems by Derek Walcott
48. Wild Child: Stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle
NONFICTION
49. All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
50. Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
51. Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women by Rebecca Traister
52. The Book in the Renaissance by Andrew Pettegree
53. The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick
54. Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
55. Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang
56. Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
57. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
58. Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
59. Common as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership by Lewis Hyde
60. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
61. Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler
62. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
63. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
64. Encounter by Milan Kundera. Translated by Linda Asher
65. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
66. Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim
67. Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg
68. Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
69. The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah
70. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack by Rebecca Skloot
71. Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles
72. Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic by Michael Scammell
73. The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood by Jane Leavy
74. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
75. The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron by Howard Bryant
76. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick
77. Life by Keith Richards with James Fox
78. Long for this World: The Strange Science of Immortality by Jonathan Weiner
79. The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks
80. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre
81. Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives by Annie Murphy Paul
82. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
83. Pearl Buck in China: Journey to ‘The Good Earth’ by Hilary Spurling
84. Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout
85. The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman
86. The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman
87. The Promise: President Obama, Year One by Jonathan Alter
88. The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley
89. Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier
90. The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time by Judith Shulevitz
91. Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman
92. Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring
93. Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court by Jeff Shesol
94. The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
95. The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold
96. Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
97. The Warmth of Others Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
98. Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
99. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey
100. Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend by James S. Hirsch
If you’re interested in reading more about this list as well as descriptions about each of these books, visit http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/books/review/100-notable-books-2010.html?_r=2. .
In the end, I’d be interested to know how many of these books you’ve had a chance to read. What did you think about them? Which would you recommend? Are there any books that weren’t on the list that you thought should have been included? Let us know in the comments section below.
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