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2010 Best Fiction: The Top 25


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Cover art for FUN WITH PROBLEMS
FICTION
Released: Jan. 11, 2010

" Vintage Stone. Enough said."
Alienated, angry outsiders stalk the dangerous edges of their unraveling lives in the great American novelist's collection of grim short fiction. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE PRIVILEGES
FICTION
Released: Jan. 12, 2010

"Thoughtful and bracingly unpredictable, though the lack of a resolution is frustrating. "
Gilded young go-getter creates, not always legally, a cocoon for his family in Dee's mostly buoyant fifth novel about money, family and mortality. Read full book review >
Cover art for POINT OMEGA
FICTION
Released: Feb. 2, 2010

"An icy, disturbing and masterfully composed study of guilt, loss and regret--quite possibly the author's finest yet. "
Moving a step beyond the disturbing symbolism of Falling Man (2007, etc.), DeLillo ruminates teasingly on a tendency toward obliteration perhaps locked into the DNA of all living things. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE SURRENDERED
FICTION
Released: March 9, 2010

"A major achievement, likely to be remembered as one of this year's best books."
The odyssey of a Korean War refugee becomes first the subject of, then a haunting overture to, the award-winning Korean-American author's fourth novel (Aloft, 2004, etc.). Read full book review >
Cover art for THE ASK
FICTION
Released: March 9, 2010

"The author's most ambitious work yet--a brilliant and scabrously entertaining riff on contemporary America."
Another savage, hilarious black comedy from Lipsyte (Home Land, 2004, etc.). Read full book review >
Cover art for THE STORM
FICTION
Released: March 12, 2010

"It's hard to resist using the word "symphonic" to describe this exquisitely composed, piercingly moving story. De Moor continues to scale increasingly impressive heights."
This fifth translated novel from the Dutch classical singer-turned-novelist (The Kreutzer Sonata, 2005, etc.) offers a moving dramatization of a historical catastrophe which bears disturbing resemblances to recent global occurrences. Read full book review >