Wednesday, January 27, 2010

2010 ALA Notable Books

The ALA has announced its Notable Books for 2010:

Fiction

The Convalescent, by Jessica Anthony

The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood

The Anthologist, by Nicholson Baker

Await Your Reply, by Dan Chaon

Little Bee, by Chris Cleave

Spooner, by Pete Dexter

Tinkers, by Paul Harding

The Vagrants, by Yiyun Li

Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann

A Mercy, by Toni Morrison

Generosity: An Enhancement, by Richard Powers

Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin

Non-Fiction

Columbine, by Dave Cullen

Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers

The Good Soldiers, by David Finkel

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann

The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors without Borders, by Emmanuel Guibert

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes

Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld & the American Dream, by Patrick Radden Keefe

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, by Christopher McDougall

Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath, by Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman

Provenance: How a Con Man & a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art, by Lainey Salisbury and Sujo Aly

Stitches: A Memoir, by David Small

The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War, by Nicholas Thompson

4 comments:

Dave Cullen said...

Thanks for the shout-out on my book, Columbine. It was really an honor to get this one.

Cate said...

Hey, I'm Cate, and I saw your blog over at the Saturday Network!

This list makes me want to head over to the library; I don't think I've read any of these. I'm loooking forward to it! :)

Wendy said...

Hey Cate - thanks for stopping by!

Miss Remmers said...

I really need to expand my reading list! :)

I have an award for you: http://reagan-review.blogspot.com/2010/02/award-2210.html