December 13, 2010

In the News: Book review editors are sharing their lists of favorite titles for 2010 just in time for the holiday season. You’ll find a number of these at the FAU Libraries. Also, check out the National Book Award and Man Booker Prize-winning titles which were announced in November and October respectively.

Happy Holidays to our blog readers. In the News will return in January 2011.

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National Book Awards 2010
Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Financial Times Books of the Year
The New York Times 10 Best Lists
O, the Oprah Magazine: Favorite Reads

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

FICTION WINNER

• Lord of Misrule, by Jaimy Gordon (On Order)

FICTION FINALISTS

• Great House, by Nicole Krauss. W. W. Norton & Co., 2010. Call Number: PS3611 .R38 G74 2010
• I Hotel, by Karen Tei Yamashita. Coffee House Press, 2010 (On Order)
• Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call Number: PR9619.3 .C36 P37 2010
• So Much for That, by Lionel Shriver. Harper, 2010 (On Order)

NONFICTION WINNER

• Just Kids, by Patti Smith. Ecco, 2010. Call Number: ML420 .S672 S65 2010

NONFICTION FINALISTS

• Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq, by John W. Dower. W. W. Norton, 2010. Call Number: E745 .D69 2010 (On order)
• Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War, by Megan K. Stack (On order)
• Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, by Justin Spring (On order)
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick. Spiegel & Grau, 2010. Call Number: HN730.6 .A8 D46 2009

POETRY WINNER

• Lighthead, by Terrance Hayes. Penguin Books, 2010. Call Number: PS3558 .A8378 L54 2010

POETRY FINALISTS

• By the Numbers, by James Richardson (on order)
• The Eternal City, by Kathleen Graber (on order)
• Ignatz, by Monica Youn (on order)
• One with Others, by C. D. Wright (on order)

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION

WINNER

• The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson (on order)

FINALISTS

• C, by Tom McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call Number: PR6113 .C369 C3 2010
• In a Strange Room, by Damon Galgut. Europa Editions, 2010 (on order)
• The Long Song, by Andrea Levy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Call Number: PR6112 .E889 L66 2010
• Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call Number: PR9619.3 .C36 P37 2010

FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis. W. W. Norton, 2010. Call Number: HC106.83 .L5 2010b
• The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, by David Kirkpatrick. Simon & Schuster, 2010. Call Number: HD9696.8 .U64 F335 2010
• Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, by Joseph E. Stiglitz. W. W. Norton & Co., 2010. Call Number: HB3722 .S842 2010

FOOD

• Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer. Little, Brown and Company, 2009. Call Number: TX392 .F58 2009

HISTORY

• Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?, by James Shapiro. Simon & Schuster, 2010. Call Number: PR2937 .S47 2010
• Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History, by Nick Bunker. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call Number: F68 .B936 2010
• Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth, by Hilary Spurling. Simon & Schuster, 2010. Call Number: PS3503 .U198 Z845 2010

POLITICS

• The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, by David Remnick. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call Number: E908 .R46 2010
• Decision Points, by George W. Bush. Crown Publishers, 2010.Call Number: E903 .A3 2010
• The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era, by Michael Mandelbaum. PublicAffairs, 2010. Call Number: JZ1480 .M3259 2010
• Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. Harper, 2010. Call Number: JK526 2008 .H45 2010
• A Journey: My Political Life, by Tony Blair. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call Number: DA591 .B56 A3 2010
• Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement, by Justin Vaisse; translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2010. Call Number: JC573.2 .U6 V33 2010
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick. Spiegel & Grau, 2010. Call Number: HN730.6 .A8 D46 2009
• Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War, by Andrew J. Bacevich. Metropolitan Books, 2010. Call Number: JZ1480 .B335 2010

RELIGION

• Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, by Diarmaid MacCulloch. Viking, 2010. Call Number: BR145.3 .M33 2010 (At Jupiter)
• The Future of Islam, by John L. Esposito. Oxford University Press, 2010. Call Number: BP161.3 .E867 2010
• Reason, Faith, & Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate, by Terry Eagleton. Yale University Press, 2009. Call Number: BT1212 .E24 2009
• Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England, by Anthony Julius. Oxford University Press, 2010. Call Number: DS146 .G7 J85 2010

SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. Crown Publishers, 2010. Call Number: RC265.6 .L24 S55 2010
• Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages, by Guy Deutscher. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010. Call Number: P140 .D487 .2010

NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST LISTS (Selected by Michiko Kakutani, Janet Maslin, and Dwight Garner)

• The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, by Kay Ryan. Grove Press, 2010. Call Number: PS3568 .Y38 B47 2010
• Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff. Little, Brown and Co., 2010. Call Number: DT92.7 .S35 2010
• The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr, by Ken Gormley. Crown Publishers, 2010. Call Number: E886.2 .G67 2010
• Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Call Number: PS3556 .R352 F74 2010
• A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster, by Wendy Moffat. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Call Number: PR6011 .O58 Z8228 2010
• Hitch-22: A Memoir, by Christopher Hitchens. Twelve, 2010. Call Number: CT275 .H62575 A3 2010
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. Crown Publishers, 2010. Call Number: RC265.6 .L24 S55 2010
• Just Kids, by Patti Smith. Ecco, 2010. Call Number: ML420 .S672 S65 2010
• The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron, by Howard Bryant. Pantheon Books, 2010. Call Number: GV865 .A25 B79 2010
• Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, by Ben Macintyre. Harmony Books, 2010. Call Number: D810 .S7 M246 2010
• Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends, by Tom Segev. Doubleday, 2010. Call Number: DS135 .A93 W537 2010
• Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel, by Gary Shteyngart. Random House, 2010. Call Number: PS3619 .H79 S87 2010
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet: A Novel, by David Mitchell. Random House, 2010. Call Number: PR6063 .I785 T47 2010 (At Jupiter)
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson. Random House, 2010. Call Number: E185.6 .W685 2010
• You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, by Jaron Lanier. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call Number: HM851 .L358 2010

On order

• Faithful Place, by Tana French
• Fifth Avenue, 5. A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and The Dawn of the Modern Woman, by Sam Wasson
• Frank: The Voice, by James Kaplan
• Letters, by Saul Bellow, edited by Benjamin Taylor
• Life, by Keith Richards with James Fox
• The Lost Books of the Odyssey, by Zachary Mason
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, by Helen Simonson
• Mourning Diary, by Roland Barthes
• The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, by Elif Batuman
• Savages, by Don Winslow

O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

• Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Call Number: PS3556 .R352 F74 2010
• Hellhound on His Trail, by Hampton Sides. Doubleday, 2010. Call Number: E185.97 .K5 S534 2010
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. Crown Publishers, 2010. Call Number: RC265.6 .L24 S55 2010
• A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call Number: PS3555 .G292 V57 2010
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson. Random House, 2010. Call Number: E185.6 .W685 2010

On order

• Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, by Danielle Evans
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Let’s Take the Long Way Home, by Gail Caldwell
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, by Helen Simonson