Publishers Weekly‘s selection of 2010’s Top Ten books arrives today, joining Library Journal‘s and the Amazon editors’ lists announced last week.

Unlike last year, when PW‘s Top Ten did not include a single woman, half of the titles this year are by women.

As we have come to expect, there is very little consensus. Just three titles appear on all three lists. Moreover, only one of the National Book Award finalists made these lists; the title by PW’s cover author, Patti Smith.

Below are the titles, followed by links to EarlyWord stories about them.

ON ALL THREE LISTS

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Crown) —  #1 on Amazon, also on LJ, PW — Buy Alert: IMMORTAL LIFE

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Random) — #5 on Amazon, also on LJ, PW — More WARMTH

• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) — #6 on Amazon, also on LJ, PW — FREEDOM IS #1

ON TWO LISTS

• Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand (Random) — #4 on Amazon; PW — GalleyChatting; Fall Books

• Just Kids, Patti Smith (Ecco) — – #9 on Amazon; PW (also an NBA finalist) — Cover of the NYT BR

• The Big Short Michael Lewis (Norton)– #10 on Amazon; PW — THE BIG SHORT; Big Sales

ONLY ON AMAZON’s TOP TEN

• #2 Faithful Place, Tana French, Viking — All Over The PLACE

• #3 Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes, Atlantic Monthly — Book of the Week: MATTERHORN

• #7 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Stieg Larsson, Knopf — HORNET’S NEST Gets All the Buzz

• #8 To the End of the Land, David Grossman, Knopf — NYT BR Cover

ONLY ON PW‘s TOP TEN

• A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan (Knopf) — Hating the Plot Summary

• The Surrendered, Chang-rae Lee, (Riverhead) — THE SURRENDERED — Reviewers’ Fav

• Man in the Woods, Scott Spencer (Harper) — NYT BR Cover; NEMESIS

• The Lonely Polygamist,Brady Udall (Norton) — Buzz List: Udall, Orringer, Kwok

ONLY ON LJ‘s TOP TEN

• The Passage by Justin Cronin (Ballantine) — #16 on Amazon — No Escaping THE PASSAGE

• The Tiger by John Vaillant (Knopf) — #34 on Amazon — TIGER Burning Bright

• Room by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown) — #35 on Amazon — ROOM a Best Seller

• By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) — #36 on Amazon — Follett Leads Next Week’s Fiction

• How To Live, Or, a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell (Other Press) — #86 on Amazon

• Walker Evans Decade by Decade (Hatje Cantz) — not on Amazon’s Top 100

• American Terroir by Rowan Jacobsen (Bloomsbury) — not on Amazon’s Top 100

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