More “Best of” lists from 2010! Here are Publisher’s Weekly top ten picks:
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Freedom
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
The Surrendered
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Just Kids
Man in the Woods
The Lonely Polygamist
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
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How does PW pick the “best”? Is this based upon sales? A few of these I haven’t heard of, though. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Kimberly! I did a bit of research and found their method:
This year we took our annual slugfest to the pub underneath our new office and came up with a list of the year’s top 100 books that could be our best ever. It wasn’t any easier with a drink in hand to pick, and agree upon, the best books of 2010, but we did it.
Not scientific, but sure sounds like fun!!