New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 (fiction and nonfiction)

1.
Room
Room 4.08 avg rating — 826,306 ratings
2.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3) 4.24 avg rating — 765,832 ratings
3.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 786,986 ratings
4.
One Day
One Day 3.87 avg rating — 399,191 ratings
5.
Freedom
Freedom 3.79 avg rating — 173,386 ratings
6.
A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad 3.70 avg rating — 244,136 ratings
7.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet 4.03 avg rating — 66,776 ratings
8.
The Imperfectionists
The Imperfectionists 3.55 avg rating — 50,179 ratings
9.
Matterhorn
Matterhorn 4.27 avg rating — 46,456 ratings
10.
Super Sad True Love Story
Super Sad True Love Story 3.45 avg rating — 41,495 ratings
11.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 4.34 avg rating — 111,137 ratings
12.
The Invisible Bridge
The Invisible Bridge 4.18 avg rating — 53,713 ratings
13.
Cleopatra: A Life
Cleopatra: A Life 3.73 avg rating — 121,450 ratings
14.
Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon 4.24 avg rating — 64,197 ratings
15.
Solar
Solar 3.29 avg rating — 28,951 ratings
16.
Great House
Great House 3.49 avg rating — 18,529 ratings
17.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,272 ratings
18.
Life
Life 3.89 avg rating — 97,133 ratings
19.
All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis 4.04 avg rating — 7,655 ratings
20.
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet 4.01 avg rating — 2,030 ratings
21.
To the End of the Land
To the End of the Land 4.01 avg rating — 8,155 ratings
22.
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe 3.44 avg rating — 19,833 ratings
23.
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays 3.83 avg rating — 6,109 ratings
24.
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory 4.26 avg rating — 8,013 ratings
25.
Shadow Tag
Shadow Tag 3.45 avg rating — 8,558 ratings
26.
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years 4.11 avg rating — 6,542 ratings
27.
I Curse the River of Time
I Curse the River of Time 3.44 avg rating — 4,095 ratings
28.
The Mind's Eye
The Mind's Eye 3.92 avg rating — 13,541 ratings
29.
Washington: A Life
Washington: A Life 4.16 avg rating — 79,864 ratings
30.
The Surrendered
The Surrendered 3.67 avg rating — 4,861 ratings
31.
Mr. Peanut
Mr. Peanut
by: Adam Ross
3.25 avg rating — 5,599 ratings
32.
The Lotus Eaters
The Lotus Eaters 3.87 avg rating — 13,331 ratings
33.
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? 4.04 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
34.
Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt #3)
Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt #3) 4.11 avg rating — 22,241 ratings
35.
Selected Stories
Selected Stories 4.30 avg rating — 549 ratings
36.
The Long Song
The Long Song 3.79 avg rating — 11,126 ratings
37.
The New Yorker Stories
The New Yorker Stories 3.79 avg rating — 1,355 ratings
38.
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth 3.82 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
39.
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Hitch 22: A Memoir 4.02 avg rating — 22,230 ratings
40.
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food 4.05 avg rating — 6,841 ratings
41.
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris 3.66 avg rating — 2,514 ratings
42.
Travels in Siberia
Travels in Siberia 3.92 avg rating — 4,614 ratings
43.
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery 4.18 avg rating — 6,497 ratings
44.
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition 3.88 avg rating — 8,423 ratings
45.
Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women
Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women 4.18 avg rating — 1,765 ratings
46.
Angelology (Angelology, #1)
Angelology (Angelology, #1) 3.45 avg rating — 18,062 ratings
47.
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History 3.75 avg rating — 563 ratings
48.
How to Read the Air
How to Read the Air 3.27 avg rating — 2,751 ratings
49.
The Book in the Renaissance
The Book in the Renaissance 3.98 avg rating — 252 ratings
50.
The Privileges
The Privileges 3.29 avg rating — 6,121 ratings
51.
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean 4.04 avg rating — 11,333 ratings
52.
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong 4.15 avg rating — 964 ratings
53.
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them 3.71 avg rating — 5,946 ratings
54.
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
The Lost Books of the Odyssey 3.92 avg rating — 3,448 ratings
55.
Memory Wall
Memory Wall 4.08 avg rating — 9,248 ratings
56.
The Nearest Exit (Milo Weaver, #2)
The Nearest Exit (Milo Weaver, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 6,993 ratings
57.
The Ask
The Ask 3.30 avg rating — 6,820 ratings
58.
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama 4.10 avg rating — 4,654 ratings
59.
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices 4.18 avg rating — 1,938 ratings
60.
The Promise: President Obama, Year One
The Promise: President Obama, Year One 4.03 avg rating — 2,738 ratings
61.
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth Century Skeptic
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth Century Skeptic 4.14 avg rating — 104 ratings
61.
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend 4.10 avg rating — 2,996 ratings
63.
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn 4.04 avg rating — 11,912 ratings
64.
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade 4.07 avg rating — 1,791 ratings
65.
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith 3.70 avg rating — 759 ratings
66.
Wild Child and Other Stories
Wild Child and Other Stories 3.69 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
67.
The Three Weissmanns of Westport
The Three Weissmanns of Westport 2.95 avg rating — 9,144 ratings
68.
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood 3.97 avg rating — 6,839 ratings
69.
White Egrets
White Egrets 4.07 avg rating — 616 ratings
70.
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron 4.15 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
71.
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes 4.54 avg rating — 2,107 ratings
72.
Foreign Bodies
Foreign Bodies 3.19 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
73.
The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time 3.54 avg rating — 536 ratings
74.
Vida
Vida 3.75 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
75.
Sourland
Sourland 3.50 avg rating — 938 ratings
76.
Something Red
Something Red 3.06 avg rating — 303 ratings
77.
American Subversive
American Subversive 3.42 avg rating — 651 ratings
78.
The Same River Twice
The Same River Twice 3.19 avg rating — 278 ratings
79.
Bound
Bound 3.05 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
79.
Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership 3.91 avg rating — 319 ratings
79.
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen 3.47 avg rating — 804 ratings
82.
Girl by the Road at Night: A Novel of Vietnam
Girl by the Road at Night: A Novel of Vietnam 2.85 avg rating — 174 ratings
83.
Encounter
Encounter 3.72 avg rating — 1,844 ratings
83.
The Illustrated Insectopedia
The Illustrated Insectopedia 3.64 avg rating — 440 ratings
85.
Comedy in a Minor Key
Comedy in a Minor Key 3.72 avg rating — 2,059 ratings
86.
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory 4.03 avg rating — 22,515 ratings
87.
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century 3.71 avg rating — 322 ratings
88.
Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives
Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives 3.72 avg rating — 1,334 ratings
89.
Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality
Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality 3.54 avg rating — 929 ratings
90.
Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court 4.01 avg rating — 652 ratings
91.
What Becomes
What Becomes 3.56 avg rating — 279 ratings
92.
The Spot
The Spot 3.51 avg rating — 319 ratings
93.
Double Happiness
Double Happiness 3.31 avg rating — 89 ratings
94.
Fun with Problems: Stories
Fun with Problems: Stories 3.28 avg rating — 385 ratings
95.
Ilustrado
Ilustrado 3.36 avg rating — 2,684 ratings
96.
Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip
Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip 4.28 avg rating — 246 ratings
97.
The Living Fire
The Living Fire 4.02 avg rating — 169 ratings
98.
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness 3.66 avg rating — 575 ratings
99.
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 4.11 avg rating — 1,220 ratings
100.
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, Library Edition
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, Library Edition 3.83 avg rating — 854 ratings