Publisher's Weekly has announced their best books of 2010.
PW's romance list rocks. RT Book Reviews should really take note.
Romance
The Forbidden Rose
Joanna Bourne (Berkley Sensation)
The Iron Duke
Meljean Brook (Berkley)
The Heir
Grace Burrowes (Sourcebooks Casablanca)
Barely a Lady
Eileen Dreyer (Grand Central/Forever)
Trial by Desire
Courtney Milan (HQN)
*I've read 3 out of the 5 listed here and out of the three they are all incredible reads. We all know that The Iron Duke is one my favorite book of 2010 (and tied for first place with another), but both Joanna's The Forbidden Rose and Courtney's Trial by Desire are beautiful reads.*
SF/Fantasy/Horror
The Bone Palace
Amanda Downum (Orbit)
Feed
Mira Grant (Orbit)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms/The Broken Kingdoms
N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
Who Fears Death
Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
A Special Place: The Heart of a Dark Matter
Peter Straub (Pegasus)
*I've only read The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, which was an okay read for me but didn't blow me away. I've heard Feed is fabulous, which I was give by the author herself at Comic Con and hope to read soon.*
PW's overall Top 10 Books of 2010:
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan (Knopf)
Freedom
Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand (Random)
The Surrendered
Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead)
The Big Short
Michael Lewis (Norton)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot (Crown)
Just Kids
Patti Smith (Ecco)
Man in the Woods
Scott Spencer (Ecco)
The Lonely Polygamist
Brady Udall (Norton)
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson (Random)
*Yet again, I've only heard of one book on this list *blush*. Maybe I should give Freedom a read?
And, I was looking through PW's Best Children's Books for 2010 and this book made me smile:
City Dog, Country Frog
Mo Willems, illus. by Jon J Muth (Hyperion)
Expectations are understandably high for a superstar pairing like this, and Willems and Muth more than deliver with an understated story of friendship between a dog and a frog that unfolds across the four seasons. The idea that the seasons (and life) inevitably end is counterbalanced by the subtle humor evident in both text and paintings, as well as the promise of a new friendship when spring returns.
*Who would have thought a dog and frog could be friends?*
What do you think of the picks?
2 comments:
Hmmm. I haven't heard of any of the books in the top ten...only two of the fantasy/sci-fi/horror books (one [The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms] of which I have on my TBR list) and only one of the romance books (The Iron Duke, which is on my TBR list). I know I'm online...perhaps not enough? Question - is The Iron Duke a romance? I keep hearing it called steampunk...or is it steampunk romance? (I find labels very confusing :)
I think I'd quite like to read about a dog and a frog :)
Hi Katie :)
Thank you very much for the list & comments.
All the best,
RKCharron
PS I did a Tweet-Review of FEED:
http://twitter.com/#!/RKCharron/status/1982457561747456
:)
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