Two Amazon Best of 2010 lists: Top 10 (out of 100) and Top SF/Fantasy
Larry Send a noteboard - 04/11/2010 11:40:33 PM
Amazon Top 100 (#1-10)
1. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2. Faithful Place by Tana French
3. Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
4. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
5. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
6. Freedom 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 by Michael Lewis
Amazon SF/Fantasy (#1-10)
#1 - The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz, translated by Andrew Oakland (Dalkey Archive Press)
#2 - How to Live in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (Pantheon)
#3 - Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord (Small Beer Press)
#4 - The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman (Tor)
#5 - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
#6 - The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich (Two Dollar Radio)
#7 - The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer (St. Martin's Press)
#8 - Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
#9 - The Fixed Stars by Brian Conn (Fiction Collective 2)
#10 - Kill the Dead by Richard Kadrey (Eos)
Discuss amongst yourselves. I have read/own all but the Palmer and Kadrey on the second list and 7 out #11-100 on the first list (none of the final 10, however).
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Two Amazon Best of 2010 lists: Top 10 (out of 100) and Top SF/Fantasy
- 04/11/2010 11:40:33 PM
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Yeah, Amazong rating is not what I go by.
- 05/11/2010 08:34:19 AM
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The majority of the Amazon SF/Fantasy list is comprised on non-genre marketed works
- 05/11/2010 03:47:40 PM
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A semi-obscure list.
- 05/11/2010 09:21:43 AM
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Patti Smith! Anyone here read it? *NM*
- 08/11/2010 07:55:17 PM
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Is it the Patti Smith? *NM*
- 08/11/2010 08:04:51 PM
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Uhm, I just kind of. . . assumed so. She does write poetry.
- 08/11/2010 08:20:25 PM
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Re: Uhm, I just kind of. . . assumed so. She does write poetry.
- 08/11/2010 08:21:55 PM
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No, but of course you had to rub it in my face sooner or later. 
*NM*
- 08/11/2010 08:26:16 PM
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*NM*
- 08/11/2010 08:26:16 PM
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Indeed 
- 08/11/2010 08:28:00 PM
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- 08/11/2010 08:28:00 PM
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Well of course she was! Your blasphemous insinuation that she could be otherwise offends me.
- 08/11/2010 08:37:31 PM
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Re: Well of course she was! Your blasphemous insinuation that she could be otherwise offends me.
- 08/11/2010 09:02:27 PM
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Right, so, instead of speculating, I went and checked. 'Cause I'm smart!
- 08/11/2010 08:24:42 PM
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Re: Right, so, instead of speculating, I went and checked. 'Cause I'm smart! ->and not lazy.
- 08/11/2010 08:28:28 PM
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