Just in time for holiday shopping, Amazon book editors announce the
100 best books of the year, as well as the top 100 customer favorites
SEATTLE, Nov 04, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced its picks for Best Books
of 2010. This annual feature includes the Editors' Picks for the Top 100
Books of the Year, the Top 100 Customer Favorites and Top 10 lists in
nearly two dozen categories, from Literature & Fiction to Children's
Picture Books. To see all of our Best Books of 2010, or to download one
of the picks to your Kindle, go to www.amazon.com/bestbooks2010.
"Whether it was Jonathan Franzen's reunion with Oprah or the eagerly
anticipated final books in blockbuster trilogies, 2010 had everyone
talking about reading," said Daphne Durham, Managing Editor of Books at
Amazon.com. "Deciding on our Top 100 Books is always a tough assignment,
but our choice for the Best Book of the Year, Rebecca Skloot's 'The
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,' was unanimous."
The Best Books of 2010 Store is live on Amazon.com. Our Best Book of the
Year, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot, was our
spotlight pick for February's Best Book of the Month, it appeared on the
Best Books of 2010...So Far list and also finished in our Top 10 Customer
Favorites for our bestselling new releases of the year.
Here's a look at our Top 10 editors' picks for the year:
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"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot:
From a single, short life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells
that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science
possible. From that same life, Skloot fashions a rich and haunting
story that redefines what it means to have a medical history.
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"Faithful Place: A Novel" by Tana French: The past haunts
in French novels. In this compelling and cutting mystery, Frank
Mackey (the beloved undercover guru from "The Likeness") returns
home to investigate the cold case of his teenage sweetheart, and
faces down his family.
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"Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War" by Karl Marlantes:
A breathtaking debut (30 years in the making) by a decorated
Vietnam veteran that takes readers deep into the jungle, and
offers a new perspective on the ravages of war, the bureaucracy of
the military, and the peculiar beauty of brotherhood.
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"Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and
Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand: As she did with
"Seabiscuit," Hillenbrand has unearthed another unlikely and
inspiring tale from our past. Louis Zamperini was an Olympic
athlete as a teenager, an airman in World War II, an ocean crash
survivor, and a prisoner of war before returning home for another
half-century of life.
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"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great
Migration" by Isabel Wilkerson: Through the eyes of three
families, Wilkerson gives vivid life to one of the great untold
epics of American history: the migration between the two world
wars of millions of African Americans from the South to the North
and West.
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"Freedom: A Novel" by Jonathan Franzen: Franzen's first
novel since "The Corrections," and a match for that great book, is
a wrenching, funny and forgiving portrait of a Midwestern family.
"Freedom" is deserving of all the unprecedented attention it
received this summer.
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"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by Stieg Larsson:
The finest example of a book that saves the best for last, "The
Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" roars with an explosive
storyline filled with revelations that make the end of this
game-changing suspense series all the more bittersweet.
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"To the End of the Land" by David Grossman: In a fictional
story whose events hauntingly parallel the author's own life, an
Israeli mother--one of the most indelible characters in recent
fiction--goes on a journey through her past to avoid the news that
her soldier son may have been killed.
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"Just Kids" by Patti Smith: Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe
weren't always famous, but they always thought they would be.
Smith's memoir of their friendship is tender and artful, with the
visionary style of her rock anthems balanced by her detailed
memories of their bohemian youth.
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"The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" by Michael Lewis:
Of the many books about our economic meltdown, "The Big Short" is
the one to read, told, in Lewis' usual hilarious and clear style,
from the perspective of a few iconoclastic thinkers who saw the
collapse coming--and bet big on it.
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