Amazon.com announces Best Books of 2010; Stieg Larsson's books top customer favorite
Amazon.com announced its picks for Best Books of 2010. The annual feature includes the Editors' Picks for the Top 100 Books of the Year, the Top 100 Customer Favorites and Top 10 lists in nearly two dozen categories, from Literature & Fiction to Children's Picture Books.
Amazon.com (Books) Managing Editor Daphne Durham said: "Whether it was Jonathan Franzen's reunion with Oprah or the eagerly anticipated final books in blockbuster trilogies, 2010 had everyone talking about reading."
"Deciding on our Top 100 Books is always a tough assignment, but our choice for the Best Book of the Year, Rebecca Skloot's 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,' was unanimous."
"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot tops the Editor's Picks for 2010. However, Stieg Larsson's "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" tops the Customer's Favorites list, and also ranks 7th in Editor's Pick.
Here's Amazon.com Top 10 Editors' Picks for 2010:
1. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot.
2. "Faithful Place: A Novel" by Tana French
3. "Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War" by Karl Marlantes
4. "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand
5. "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" by Isabel Wilkerson
6. "Freedom: A Novel" by Jonathan Franzen
7. "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by Stieg Larsson
8. "To the End of the Land" by David Grossman
9. "Just Kids" by Patti Smith
10. "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" by Michael Lewis.
For more Amazon.com list, you can check them out here.