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Reader's Advisory

What the Reviewers Liked in 2010

The fiction titles listed immediately below each received starred reviews in three or four of these review journals: Booklist, Kirkus, Library Journal, and Publishers’ Weekly. Click on the link to find the book and see a summary in our catalog.

 

Four Stars

starstarstarstar
book coverSkippy Dies
by Paul Murray

 

Bury Your Dead
By Louise Penny

 

Rhetoric of Death
by Judith Rock

 

Book coverStill Missing
by Chevy Stevens

 

Ilustrado
by Miguel Syjuco  

 

Surrendered
by Chang-Rae Lee

 

book coverCookbook Collector
by Allegra Goodman     

 

Glass Rainbow
by James Lee Burke

 

Nowhere to Run
by C.J. Box    

 

 

Three Stars
starstarstar

book coverHypothermia
by Indridason Arnaldur

 

Sunset Park
by Paul Auster

 

Infinities
by John Banville

 

book coverParrot and Olivier in America           
by Peter Carey   

 

61 Hours
by Lee Child

 

Summertime
by J. M. Coetzee

 

book coverRoom
by Emma Donoghue

 

A Visit From the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan

 

The Unnamed
by Joshua Ferris

 

book coverShades of Grey
by Jasper Fforde

 

Blindness of the Heart
by Julia Franck

 

Faithful Place
by Tana French

 

book coverWidower's Tale
by Julia Glass

 

Good Son
by Michael Gruber

 

Snakewoman of Little Egypt
by Robert Hellenga

 

book coverThey're Watching
by Gregg A. Hurwitz

 

The Dead Path
by Stephen M. Irwin

 

Under Heaven
by Guy Gavriel Kay

 

book coverThousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell

 

Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
by Walter Mosley

 

Bound
by Antonya Nelson

 

book coverDevil's Star
by Jo Nesbo

 

Collusion
by Stewart Neville

 

What is Left the Daughter
by Howard Norman

 

book coverChangeling
by Kenzaburo Oe         

 

 

 

 

 

 

What the Reviewers Liked in 2009

What the Reviwers Liked 2008 (pdf iconpdf)

 

 

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Last updated: February 28, 2011