The Best of the Best of 2010

On Sunday January 2, 2011 the Lexington Herald-Leader ran an article about the best books of 2010 by Colette Bancroft from the St. Petersburg Times. Here are the highlights.

• Best Novel-A visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Best Real Life Thriller-The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Best Crime Fiction-Djibouti by Elmore Leonard, I'd Know you Anywhere by Laura Lippman, Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane, and The Reversal by Michael Connelly
• Best Good Novel That Could Never Live up to It's hype-Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• Best Scary Hilarious futuristic satire with a tender heart-Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
• Best Audio Book-Life by Keith Richards (read by Johnny Depp)
• Best unexpectedly successful comeback-Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 1
• Best Surprise-The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O'Hagan
• Best Last Act-The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson