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What are some great books for 2010?

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1Carolyn7727
Apr 5, 2010, 11:32 am

I don't have much to read right now so what are some really good books? List your #1 book! Or if there are any ideas of what I might like to read then please look at my fav. books! Thanks!

2jnwelch
Apr 5, 2010, 12:38 pm

The sequel to The Hunger Games, entitled Catching Fire, is out, and is as good as HG.

3DevourerOfBooks
Apr 5, 2010, 12:52 pm

I haven't read most of these, but here are what the judges of the Tournament of Books are looking forward to for this year:

* The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
* Next by James Hynes
* So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
* Model Home by Eric Puchner
* The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
* Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
* Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett
* The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
* Solar by Ian McEwan
* Palo Alto: Stories by James Franco
* Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne
* Witz by Joshua Cohen
* The Thousand Autumns of Jacob DeZoet by David Mitchell
* The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody
* Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
* The Handbook for Lightening Strike Survivors by Michele Young-Stone
* The Hole We’re In by Gabrielle Zevin
* The Summer We Fell Apart by Robin Antalek
* The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cathleen Schine
* True Confections by Katharine Weber
* Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom
* The Infinities by John Banville
* The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason
* Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever: Stories by Justin Taylor
* Angelology by Danielle Trussoni
* The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight by Gina Oschner
* The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
* A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
* Sleepless by Charlie Huston
* Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
* The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
* Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
* The Heights by Peter Hedges
* Innocent by Scott Turow
* Lost by Alice Lichtenstein
* Private Life by Jane Smiley
* 36 Arguments for the Existence of God by Rebecca Goldstein
* The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
* The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
* A Thousand Cuts by Simon Lelic
I'm going to be on the lookout for all of them.

4SaraHope
Apr 5, 2010, 4:26 pm

You might be interested in books by Becca Fitzpatrick (Hush, Hush came out last year, the sequel Crescendo will follow this year), Kristin Cashore (Graceling and Fire), Libba Bray (Gemma Doyle series that starts with A Great and Terrible Beauty), Garth Nix (particularly the Abhorsen trilogy starting with Sabriel), and James Dashner (The Maze Runner).

Some books that are on my wishlist and I hope to get around to reading this year:

Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder
Ice by Sarah Best Durst
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore
Impossible by Nancy Werlin
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

Some blogs that might have good recommendations for you are Bookshelves of Doom and The Book Smugglers.

5Carolyn7727
Edited: Apr 6, 2010, 6:02 pm

The books that I have that are in a series I just put the first book, but thanks. I think Catching Fire wasn't as good. Kind of stretching it out until Katniss gets to the next games, just repeating all the worries. But I am so getting Mockingjay (september 2010)

6Carolyn7727
Edited: Apr 15, 2010, 3:30 pm

My TBR is full now, I went to a different library than I usually go to and I got four books (waiting for maximum ride: fang to be returned) other than that I got the new gilda joyce: the dead drop and wolves of the beyond: lone wolf.