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Top Ten lists

Written on: November 5th, 2009 by: in Blog Posts

Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin was recently voted Amazon.com’s best book of 2009- Here’s some more of Amazon’s top 10 titles:
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Crazy for the Storm: a Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollstead
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson
Stitches by David Small (graphic novel)

Here are some selections from the Publishers Weekly top ten:

• Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey (Knopf), ” juicy, appalling, hilarious and moving anecdotes with verve, sensitivity and perfect timing.”
• Await Your Reply, by Dan Chaon (Ballantine) is a “gripping account of colliding fates..utterly unputdownable.”
• Big Machine by Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau) is “a blazing story and an astute commentary on race.”
• Stitches, by David Small (Norton)- “A graphic novel to bring us all back to comics..will pull you along panel by panel and tear your heart out.”
• Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford (Penguin Press) “a brilliant case for the intellectual satisfactions of working with one’s hands”