Best Lists; It’s a Wrap
Booklist just posted their editors’ picks of the best adult and youth books of 2010, so we can now say that the Best Books season is a wrap.
Below are the top choices, along with links to our downloadable spreadsheets collating all the titles, useful if you have remaining budgets you need to spend. If you have any trouble downloading either list, or have suggestions for making them more useful, please email me).
Adult Titles, Collated (Downloadable Spreadsheet); Version 7; FINAL
Top Titles:
Tied with nine of fourteen picks:
Egan, Jennifer, A Visit From The Goon Squad, Knopf
Skloot, Rebecca, The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks, Crown (the trade pbk. coming in March is featured above)
Wilkerson, Isabel, The Warmth Of Other Suns: The Epic Story Of America’s Great Migration, Random House
Seven of fourteen:
Franzen, Jonathan, Freedom, FSG
Mitchell, David, The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet, Random House
Mukherjee, Siddhartha, The Emperor Of All Maladies: A Biography Of Cancer, Scribner
Smith, Patti, Just Kids, Knopf
Six of fourteen:
Donoghue, Emma, Room, Little, Brown
Grossman, David, To The End Of The Land, Knopf
Murray, Paul, Skippy Dies, Faber & Faber
Richards, Keith, with James Fox, Life
Schiff, Stacy, Cleopatra: A Life, Little, Brown
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Childrens Titles, Collated (Downloadable Spreadsheet) Version 6; FINAL
Top Titles:
Number One (nine of eleven sources):
Williams-Garcia, Rita, One Crazy Summer, HarperCollins/Amistad
Six of eleven:
Greenberg, Jan & Sandra Jordan, illus. by Brian Floca, Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring Roaring Brook/Neal Porter
Lin, Grace, Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same!, Little, Brown
Five of eleven:
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group; HMH
Burningham, John, illus. by Helen Oxenbury, There’s Going To Be A Baby, Candlewick
Collins, Suzanne, Mockingjay, Scholastic
Sidman, Joyce, illus. by Beckie Prange, Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s Survivors, HMH
Singer, Marilyn, Mirror Mirror: A Book Of Reversible Verse, Dutton
Wiesner, David, Art & Max, Clarion