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A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan · 2010 · 1 honor
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Apollo's Angels
Jennifer Homans · 2010 · 1 honor
3
Blackout/All Clear
Connie Willis · 2010 · 1 honor
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Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff · 2010 · 1 honor
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Finishing the Hat
Stephen Sondheim · 2010 · 1 honor
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Freedom
Jonathan Franzen · 2010 · 1 honor
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Just Kids
Patti Smith · 2010 · 1 honor
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Lighthead
Terrance Hayes · 2010 · 1 honor
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Lord of Misrule
Jaimy Gordon · 2010 · 1 honor
10
Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine · 2010 · 1 honor
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Room
Emma Donoghue · 2010 · 1 honor
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Selected Stories
William Trevor · 2010 · 1 honor
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The City & The City
China Miéville · 2010 · 1 honor
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
David E. Hoffman · 2010 · 1 honor
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The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2010 · 1 honor
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The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson · 2010 · 1 honor
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The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver · 2010 · 1 honor
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The Last Child
John Hart · 2010 · 1 honor
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The Lion & the Mouse
Jerry Pinkney · 2010 · 1 honor
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The New Yorker Stories
Ann Beattie · 2010 · 1 honor
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The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson · 2010 · 1 honor
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The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi · 2010 · 1 honor
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Tinkers
Paul Harding · 2010 · 1 honor
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When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead · 2010 · 1 honor