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The 10 Best Books of 2010
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Published: December 1, 2010
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FREEDOM
By Jonathan Franzen.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.
The author of The Corrections is back, not quite adecade later, with an even richer and deeper work a
vividly realized narrative set during the Bush years, when
the creedal legacy of personal liberties assumed new
and sometimes ominous proportions. Franzen captures
this through the tribulations of a Midwestern family, the
Berglunds, whose successes, failures and appetite forself-invention reflect the larger story of millennial
America.
THE NEW YORKER STORIES
By Ann Beattie.
Scribner, $30.
As these 48 stories published in The New Yorker from
1974 through 2006 demonstrate, Beattie, even as she
chronicled and satirized her post-1960s generation, also
became its defining voice. She punctures her characters
pretensions and jadedness with an economy and
effortless dialogue that writers have been trying to
emulate for three decades, though few, if any, have
matched her seamless combination of biting wit and
mordant humor, precise irony and consummate cool.
ROOM
By Emma Donoghue.
Little, Brown & Company, $24.99.
Donoghue has created one of the pure triumphs of recent fiction: an ebullient child
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narrator, held captive with his mother in an 11-by-11-foot room, through whom we
encounter the blurry, often complicated space between closeness and autonomy. In a
narrative at once delicate and vigorous rich in psychological, sociological and political
meaning Donoghue reveals how joy and terror often dwell side by side.
SELECTED STORIES
By William Trevor.
Viking, $35.
Gathering work from Trevors previous four collections, this volume shows why his
deceptively spare fiction has haunted and moved readers for generations. Set mainly in
Ireland and England, Trevors tales are eloquent even in their silences, documenting the
way the present is consumed by the past, the way ancient patterns shape the future.
Neither modernist nor antique, his stories are timeless.
A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD
By Jennifer Egan.
Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95.
Time is the goon squad in this virtuosic rock n roll novel about a cynical record
producer and the people who intersect his world. Ranging across some 40 years and
inhabiting 13 different characters, each with his own story and perspective, Egan makes
these disparate parts cohere into an artful whole, irradiated by a Proustian feel for loss,
regret and the ravages of love.
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APOLLOS ANGELS: A History of Ballet
By Jennifer Homans.
Random House, $35.
Here is the only truly definitive history of classical ballet. Spanning more than fourcenturies, from the French Renaissance to American and Soviet stages during the cold
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war, Homans shows how the art has been central to the social and cultural identity of
nations. She meticulously reconstructs entire eras, describing the evolution of ballet
technique while coaxing long-lost dances back to life. And she raises a crucial question:
In the 21st century, can ballet survive?
CLEOPATRA: A Life
By Stacy Schiff.
Little, Brown & Company, $29.99.
With her signature blend of wit, intelligence and superb prose, Schiff strips away 2,000
years of prejudices and propaganda in her elegant reimagining of the Egyptian queen
who, even in her own day, was mythologized and misrepresented.
THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES: A Biography of Cancer
By Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Scribner, $30.
Mukherjees magisterial biography of the most dreaded of modern afflictions. He
excavates the deep history of the war on cancer, weaving haunting tales of his own
clinical experience with sharp sketches of the sometimes heroic, sometimes misguided
scientists who have preceded him in the fight.
FINISHING THE HAT: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant
Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes
By Stephen Sondheim.Alfred A. Knopf, $39.95.
The theaters pre-eminent living songwriter offers a master class in how to write a
musical, covering some of the greatest shows, from West Side Story to Sweeney
Todd. Sondheims analysis of his and others lyrics is insightful and candid, and his
anecdotes are telling and often very funny.
THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS: The Epic Story of Americas Great
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A version of this article appeared in print on December 12, 2010, on
page BK10 of the New York edition.
Migration
By Isabel Wilkerson.
Random House, $30.
Wilkerson, a former national correspondent for The Times, has written a masterly andengrossing account of the Great Migration, in which six million African-Americans
abandoned the South between 1915 and 1970. The book centers on the journeys of three
black migrants, each representing a different decade and a different destination.
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